Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 8-11-2018: The Bodleian

8th November, 2018.

It’s officially official: I’ve now got updated copies of Pages, Keynote, Numbers and iMovie.

Yay!

OK, it’s just another update to the software, but I’m grateful to get them.

And frankly?

I’m also happy to use them.

I’ve used Microsoft’s Office software — on and off — for several years.

Components of it, at least.

And, while it’s the de facto standard?   It, and the open source equivalents like OpenOffice, and LibreOffice, are both a little bit too feature rich for me.

About the only thing that I did envy?

Was Office’s spell checker: which DID seem better than the default one with macOS.

Thankfully, that seems to have improved in the past few versions of both macOS, and Pages.

And frankly?

Paying £119·99* for something that I’m only going to use half of … ?

Does seem silly … 

~≈§≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga† and Debbi‡ putting in their answers: with Olga scoring five out of five, and Debbi on four.

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the How To, License and video … 

Q1) The Bodleian Library was opened to the public, on 8th November: of which year?

Q2) It’s the research Library for which University: Oxford, Cambridge or St. Andrews?

Q3) The Bodleian is one of six Legal Deposit Libraries in the UK and Ireland: libraries where you can deposit a book for copyright purposes.   Name one of the other five.

Q4) Over the years, the Bodleian’s had twenty-five … what?

Q5) Finally … ?   What’s the Library’s oldest building … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) 7th November, 1954, saw the birth of writer, Guy Gavriel Kay.   He famously assisted Christopher Tolkien edit which book?

A1) The Silmarillion.

Q2) The Ensisheim meteorite — the oldest one with a known date of impact — hit the village of Ensisheim on 7th November, 1492.   Meteorite, and village, are in which European country?

A2) France.

Q3) 7th November, 1989, saw minister of which country, resign: East Germany, North Yemen or South Korean?

A3) East Germany.

Q4) Engelbert II of Berg is a Roman Catholic saint whose feast day is 7th November.   He’s Saint Engelbert of where: Aachen, Battenberg or Cologne?

A4) Cologne.

Q5) Finally … ?   7th November is Hungarian what day?

A5) Hungarian Opera Day.

Here’s a vow …

“I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, nor to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library, or kindle therein, any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library”.

The current version of the Bodleian’s Reader’s Promise: taken by people applying for access to the Library.

And a video …

Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.

Have a good day.

*        I’ve also personally felt that — before you go and buy Office — you should download and install some of the free-of-charge open software that’s out there.   Before switching to the then paid for iWorks suite?   I made a lot of use of free, open source software.   £119·99 for Microsoft Office … versus £000·00 for the equally powerful LibreOffice or OpenOffice.   You can always buy the proprietary software you want, later.

†        It’s a mystery, alright, Olga.   I’m out of the frying pan, thankfully, but still … it’s not something I want to get: both on a personal front, nor for the woman who this was aimed at.   I can only keep my fingers crossed for her.

‡        You’re looking good on it, Debbi, you really are!   And odd doesn’t even start.   I can only hope that the woman it’s for is ok, and gets the help she needs.   What can I tell you?   Except not knowing what happened is mildly frustrating.