Our student newspaper’s got a feature on blogs today, with brief interviews with bloggers explaining why they like blogging, and with me playing the role of the serious researcher. As always it’s strange seeing what a journalist picks from a half hours […]

George Bush’s official campaign website is currently off limits to anyone outside of the US and Canada. Go on, try clicking the link: georgewbush.com – it’s “403 forbidden”. Isn’t that weird? John Kerry‘s site’s still talking to us. It might be a […]

One advantage of reading time management porn might be enhanced skills in describing those things the world doesn’t understand are productive so they sound impressive. Oh, and a sign of unproductivity for the blogger: “rereading an unupdated web page is a sign […]

Routledge is looking for four or five additional papers to go in a 2006 book they’re working on that will be called The E-bay Reader. Got any e-bay kitch, folklore, research, narrative or other experiences you want to write up as an […]

It’s hard belonging to a small nation, independent in name but so completely dependent on others. From this morning’s radio news: Though Norway said no to the invasion of Iraq, we also just happened to supply the US with weapons for the […]

In a linky mood? Try linking to elinor.nu! See, nobody on the whole web has linked to ELINOR‘s site except me. Not very surprising, I guess, since I’ve not announced it and all it had on it till today was “this site […]

Our conference is approaching and I’m concentrating on the electronic literature part of it. I’ve shined up the ELINOR website a bit, and I’m adding in a bit more information about the seminar there. Today I’ll be organising fliers for the library […]

Hey! Scott and Nick finished Implementation! Congratulations!

This is kind of comforting, weirdly: a Republican arguing that we should vote for Kerry because Bush is an extremist caricature of a conservative. See, if Kerry’s elected, the Republicans will have to work out why Bush lost, and become more moderate. […]

This was the view from my grandmother’s unit. More or less. I think she was a bit further to the left, kind of. Closer to King’s Park. I miss Perth. These falling leaves are beautiful but oh so cold. Catamarans Originally uploaded […]