First day in my diary for ages without a formal engagement. And what a relief that is. At last a chance to catch up with the seriously overloaded desk and email intray that I'm accumulating. Our IT lot are enforcing the mailbox quotas they've been warning us about but they're quite tight and those of us who, rather than printing stuff out, keep a fair bit of email and/or subscribe to high-volume mailing lists don't have any easy task of getting down to the quota limit. How much is a hard-drive? Could I buy them one for me?!

(Apparently not, after an earlier whinge the University Librarian did actually ask this at some higher meeting where the IT folk were present. And was told "it's more complicated than that". I'm sure it is; but I still think the tail is wagging the dog!)