It’s quite satisfying when things that you have learned/ read come to combine with new things in the future and create something coherent in your head (sometimes something completely incoherent too).
I did mention the other day that I am taking . . . →
Fine, I don’t watch horror. I also don’t read horror.
In fact, the people who read and watch horror would probably laugh at the mention of Edgar Alan Poe since I imagine there have been a number of “improvements” since he unleashed his pretty little twisted imagination upon the . . . →
If a Google Employee Dies, Spouse Gets Half of Salary for 10 Years.
Mashable confirmed with a Google spokesperson that the benefits don’t just stop at salary. The surviving spouse or partner of a deceased employee will also acquire vested stock benefits, and children will receive $1,000 a month until the age of 19. . . . →
Head on over to Atl-HCI and comment under this paper: “Remediation of the wearable space at the intersection of wearable technologies and interactive architecture” by Marios Samdanis, Yikyung Kim and Soo Hee Lee.
I sadly don’t know Yikyung Kim but Marios Samdanis and Soo Hee Lee are two of the coolest people I know in . . . →
I am constantly amused by the indignant articles popping up on Fifty Shades of Grey – the E L James erotic romance. The latest of these is one by Yasmin Alibhai – Brown who writes about burning the book in disgust. Please. Give . . . →
It’s quite curious that I haven’t been singing Birkbeck‘s praises in here. I mean, it’s there if you read the posts, I have obviously enjoyed my time there but I don’t seem to have said it outright. So here goes.
Started as an academic notebook, now a repository of my adventures in academia, policy, communications, reading, writing and living in London. Or just anything that comes into my head in English (which is most things nowadays).
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