There’s a lot of rubbish in the blogosphere, isn’t there? Rubbish blogs, rubbish comments on rubbish blogs, like this one. Too many “amateur” opinionists who should leave “comment” and “opinion” to the
professionals (according to arch self-abuser Howard Jacobson in The Independent the other day).
Every now and again, though, somewhere in the blogiverse, a post, or [...]
Subject: Elpub2007 Open for Registration
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:15:31 +0000
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Registration is now open for the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, hosted by the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 13-15 June 2007.
I was quite excited for a moment, there, by the prospect of El Pub 2007 - my first thought was that it [...]
Juistin, Maggie and little S-H.
Olya in St Malo!
When scientists write poetry, the results can be every bit as risible as when arty types get out of their depth in the scientific. Here’s an example par excellence: Stevan Harnad, Professor in Computing at Southampton University, is also a tireless campaigner for Open Access to scientific research. A worthy cause, for which he has [...]
I’m supposed to be going to a meeting on Thursday. The date was set back in July, but so far I don’t know where or when it’s going to take place. Here’s some advice that I hope the organizers will read in time:
Two things are required to remember for a tryst, rendezvous or appointment. It [...]
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Jerry likes this photo. Not only is it full of those eponymous iced cherry and almond tarts, but the young lady in the picture is the spitting image of another old friend and confidante, Rosemary Hill.
Maybe it is her, Jerry, at least per procurationem, sending a not-so-subliminal message to who else but you?
I should [...]
Douglas Coupland’s JPod has some extremely witty - maybe just a tad cynical - observations about work-place culture. His thoughts on meetings are particularly entertaining:
Here’s my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic - they put uncreative people in a [...]
Entertaining to hear the BBC Radio Five commentary team (Saggers?) moaning about their seats at Villareal’s El Madrigal stadium. I imagine they’d complain even more bitterly if they’d had to pay for their tickets, to boot - not to mention, having to sit through the sort of thing I usually endure on my rare visits [...]
Enjoyed today Andrew Hurley’s online story, The Zahir and I, a parody of the labyrinthine erudition of Borges’ ficciones. Reality and fantasy mingle seamlessly, confusingly, in this tale of a translator driven mad by such problems as finding “a suitable English word for the Spanish adjective atroz” and “languages that consist of nothing but verbs [...]
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