At last! A Macbook! 22 Jan 2009 If I have seemed a little distracted and unresponsive lately it’s because I have been using an old clunker of a half dead laptop. I received my new employ’s Macbook yesterday and spent pretty much the rest of the day migrating to the new beast. I’m still in the process of moving to Sydney – which won’t finish until next week – but I should be able to reply and write a bit more easily once I get all my software up and working. Administrative
Administrative Go vote for Grrl 12 Sep 2009 GrrlScientist, who blogs at Living the Scientific Life, is in third place to go to the Antarctic as guest of a tour company’s competition. She’s catching up on second place, which is currently held by a son of Donny Osmond. She needs your vote, so if you have already voted… Read More
Administrative Interlude of peace and love 13 Feb 2008 Have you ever noticed that there are occasionally periods in which things just work, particularly with computers? I find that there is a confluence of coherence about every four years. I’m not sure if it’s just because the vendors – the Evil Apple Empire, or Micro$oft, whoever – recognises that… Read More
Administrative Coming to Berkeley 9 Feb 2013 I’ll be in Berkeley (California, in case there’s another one somewhere) from around the 9th to the 15th of March, to give a talk to the Mellon-Sawyer series Speciesism and the Future of Humanity. Anyone who wants an unemployed philosopher to give a talk to their group also, or just… Read More
Thanks. I should mention that I have been a Mac user since around 1985. I really tried to use Windows, I did, but I found having something that worked was way preferable. Don’t mind Ubuntu Linux, though (I learned Unix before I learned DOS).
Hey. Welcome to Sydney! To be honest it’s a pretty dire town these days unfortunately – but there are still some places they haven’t “renovated” where you can get decent cold beer, which is after all the most important thing. (er besides coffee, and you’re in luck there -Toby’s on City Road is just across from campus and arguably the best coffee in the state) Anyway if someone should organise a welcoming party, I’d come.. Hmm let me think – Sydney Uni … Duck & Swan maybe? (Because everyone always goes to The Rose) Oh, and welcome to Macbook too. That is all I’ll say on that topic…