Library Blog

photo of Wellington Central Library courtesy of TaniwhaWel­ling­ton Lib­rary has gone and got itself a blog!

And it’s a good’un too. From latest releases and staff picks, and the occa­sion­al look at what’s pop­u­lar amongst the pat­rons, such as the latest post: Evid­ence of Good Taste among Wel­ling­to­ni­ans.

Wel­ling­to­ni­ans, appar­ently, are a fairly lit­er­ate and intel­li­gent buch of read­ers, with Alain De Bot­ton’s ‘Archi­tec­ture of Hap­pi­ness’, Irene Nemirovsky’s ‘Suite Fran­caise’ and ‘Hard way’ by Lee Child being the most sought-after items of the moment.

And remem­ber, if you haven’t already, sign up to the Lib­rary Elf ser­vice to get lib­rary remind­ers sent to you via a per­son­al­ised RSS feed.

[photo cour­tesy of Tani­wha]

blognapped!

So, there I was, idly try­ing to export the old Wel­ling­tonista blog­spot entries across to our snappy new dot com address, and fail­ing miser­ably.

I decided to call it a night, and switch the pub­lish­ing tar­get back to the wel­ling­tonista blog­spot address, as my co-con­trib­ut­ors were doubt­less champ­ing at the bit to post their latest, insight­ful thoughts on our fair city onto the site.

But, upon tog­gling from the FTP pub­lish­ing option back to the pub­lish-to-blog­spot option, some­thing weird happened: “Sorry, this blog address is not avail­able.”

Yes indeed, in the couple of hours I’d had the blog­spot address off­line, someone had come in and blognapped it, repla­cing our lov­ingly craf­ted site with a spamb­log.

Arse­holes.

Any­way, this has but accel­er­ated our site shift­ing plans, so, farewell blog­spot, and hello wellingtonista.com.

Those of you with RSS links should­n’t have to change any­thing, but if you’ve got a link to us on your web­site, we’d appre­ci­ate it if you could update to the new dot com ver­sion of the address.