New category for books 18 Nov 200718 Sep 2017 You may have spotted that I have created a new category called, expressively, “Book”. This is primarily for when I review books, which I am going to do more, but also when a book raises issues I want to comment on, or just mock. I’ve gone back and added this tag to a few posts from the past, so see if it helps. You can access the categories via the Archives page. Administrative Book
Administrative Australian internet filter dead in water 6 Aug 2010 Forners may not be aware of an extremely boring federal election in Australia right now. Indeed, few Australians seem aware of this. This is as it should be. Elections that are Interesting usually turn out to be Dangerous. But there is one good that has come out of this. The… Read More
Book On rules 1 Jun 2009 My friend and colleague William Grey gave me a copy of F. M. Cornford’s Microcosmographia Academica, in which I read this passage which is so apposite to the modern day: The principle of Discipline (including Religion) is that ‘there must be some rules‘. If you inquire the reason, you will… Read More
Book My book is out the door 2 Oct 2008 Today I finalised my manuscript, printed it out, annotated it, made sure all the figures were there, that they had the least ugly photos of me, burned the CD, and ticked all the boxes. Tomorrow, Species: A history of the idea physically travels to University of California Press, where they… Read More