Travel Diary 2 4 Oct 2009 So, as I missed Munich, and found myself in Frankfurt, which was shut, being a Saturday, I am now in Erlangen. I’ll say this for German trains, they are rather fast. I have met up with Thony Christie, blogger and sometime commentator on this blog (and a killer Mornington Crescent player), and we are to have dinner tonight after having had Kuche und Kaffee (old German tradition, I am told) in a delightful village the name of which I cannot now recall. I’m here for a few days and thence to the conference in Göttingen. I have managed to finish a paper on the train, too, so it’s been a useful holiday (academics don’t have holidays, they have thinking time away from their duties). More later, of course. No pics as I didn’t think to take my camera… Administrative
Administrative Travel Diary 9: An Australian in New York 24 Oct 2009 I’m an alien, a legal alien, and I have been in New York for a week. This is what I did there… Read More
Administrative My present work 10 Oct 2010 Life can be … interesting, for Chinese values thereof. No, I don’t mean the Nobel Prize, although good choice. I mean that I’m presently undergoing some kind of curse. I think it’s called “work” . Work!? So what I’m doing doesn’t translate to meaningful blog posts. Not always (but eventually,… Read More
Administrative Some technical changes 11 Jan 2011 Raise your eyes to the menu at the top of this pages, and you will see a new menu item “Categories”. A feature of my theme allows me to set up drop down menus with subordinate menus so I finally got around to setting one up for my main categories… Read More