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  • All tech bright and beautiful.

    Technology can be made exciting, cool and tempting. After all, if you’re to reach for that apple, you’ve first got to reach for your purse. And nobody wants to waste money buying the wrong thing. What about wasted time though, the purveyors of technology don’t point this out but choosing, trying and learning new technology… Read more

  • Invading, with elephants.

    As part of the far too random reading I’ve been doing for my dissertation I stumbled on a fascinating detail of ancient history:  apparently* elephants took part in the siege of Colchester in AD43.  Somewhere outside the town, the Roman Army were kicking their heels, unable to get on with taking Colchester until the main… Read more

  • Phone a desk friend at the library

    I was late to the library yesterday and was lucky to find my favourite desk still available. Now I love this desk, despite the implied nerdiness and even if it doesn’t, strictly, count as a desk, being as it is, a mere table, a long thin strip of book-sprawl potential jammed across the end of… Read more

  • One tomato two tomato three tomato four

    Been struggling this past week to fit in both day job and dissertation and still have time for sleep and sanity. So I thought I’d give the Pomodoro technique a go. Like many shiny new things it was designed by an IT student in his spare time and it supposedly helps you focus and time… Read more

  • In your own words, please…

    Today I shall do as I am paid and write words for other people to claim that they said. Even though we allegedly take great care, marking words off carefully with speech marks to denote what, exactly, someone actually said, and what it is merely reported they did. It’s a nice distinction and one to… Read more

  • In praise of study cats

    There is something oddly insulting about the term ‘cat blog,’ which I understand to mean the kind of scribbling rant which could only be written by a woman, as raving and decrepit as the animals whose odor pervades her solitary existence. I say ‘oddly,’ as I suspect there is nothing as shared on the internet… Read more