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inspiration

Jon shannonized his blog after talking with Noah.

edit continuously

“Well,” he said, “a disadvantage of using it is that since each blog post is simply a text file on your server, the last time the file was modified becomes the time stamp on the blog post. So I can’t edit posts […]

projected words

I haven’t posted since Monday, and I hardly wrote then, this isn’t like me, is it? The week did pick up after picking up Noah at the airport, and today I even got to take my first photo of someone with words […]

in brief

Great weekend. Great city. Great friends. Horrid early flight, technical problems on plane, delayed. Disasterous teaching. Expect day to pick up when I pick my daughter up from school and then Noah from airport.

cross

I laid my bag on the table while I waited, and watched it silently mimicking the crooked crosses of letter-writers. Yours truly, sincerely, forever, kiss kiss.

coming up

I’m going to Copenhagen, no, let me use the more affectionate K¯ben, this weekend, to visit Susana and Lisbeth and hopefully see Espen and Jesper and everyone else too. I’ll be bringing my camera, of course, but doubt I’ll be blogging. This […]

rosehip tea

While R. was gone I watched the red from the tea bag spread out in the hot water. I didn’t notice that the water reflected the latticed ceiling until I saw the pixels captured on the screen.

networking

Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students has some very specific and sensible-sounding advice on how to become part of a research community (conferences and blogging and, especially to begin with, the luck of having a lion […]

notes

I photographed bits of my notes from DAC 2001 at Brown before throwing them in the recycling bin. It is amazing how you can completely forget something though you have obviously been paying attention. I rarely take such careful notes these days. […]

organising discussions

I tried combining written and oral discussion in today’s seminar, with mixed success. I assumed everyone had read the texts I’d asked them to (Turing, Weizenbaum, a few photocopied pages of Turkle) and started off by asking everyone to log into MoveableType […]