March 2010
♻ @ucu UK should follow Obama's lead in HE investment. Other countries prioritising edu funding as they recognise its importance #loveHE
Off to visit Darwin's house.
Just had a fairly bad hard disk failure. Thank goodness for RAID.
Blog: http://post.ly/VqZZ Implementing COinS
Implementing COinS
After the Vitae Digital Researcher workshop at the British Library, I decided to ramp up my web presence to a slightly more professional level than it had previously obtained. Having also decided that it would be nice to take a bit of a break this weekend, I went ahead and implemented COinS on my…
I'd #loveHE a great deal more if http://is.gd/b0WQR wasn't quite so true.
would really like to put a proposal in for the MLA conference in Hawaii.
I before E, except after the H in Heidegger.
it is grossly unfair that my wife is at a talk by Kazuo Ishiguro and has just heard someone from Oxford speak on Infinite Jest.
2/3 of the way through writing it, I now know where this chapter is going and how it will look/work!
♻ @GdnPolitics parties should say "not what football team they support, but why life without Schubert is impossible" http://bit.ly/b1KWih
sshsplit 0.4 released https://launchpad.net/sshsplit
No surprise: uni budget all for science, technology, eng. and maths. They forget though: these are not what we live for. http://is.gd/aWBdC
♻ @timeshighered: Scientific advisers told: don’t undermine "mutual trust" with Government: http://bit.ly/aN4g9Y
Grigory Perelman declines $1m for solving Poincare Conjecture: "you are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms." http://is.gd/aWn4x
received a truly charitable email from Alex Abramovich re. my critique. Original: http://is.gd/aUIi5 ; my take: http://is.gd/aUIrf
#IPW10 first draft of conference paper [CHECK]
is struggling to keep this paper under 20 minutes.
Can anyone recommend a good, fairly recent, work on the history of ethics in philosophy? (ie. on ethics, not the ethics of practicing phil!)
NRLA review in the Guardian: http://2tu.us/1upt
♻ @timeshighered: It is impossible to assess research impact fairly and effectively in the REF, say MPs: http://bit.ly/csJPZy #scieblue
has finally filed an internet crime centre complaint against that **** who scammed me. Now I must let it go! Breathe! Calm!
Go Ogle China
♻ @timeshighered: Breaking: staff vote to strike at King's College London. http://bit.ly/ctGks1
The world would be a more balanced, more considerate, more considered, more interesting place if only a few more people would #loveHE
Blog: http://post.ly/UafF Undergraduates in the British Library reading rooms
a good morning's thesis writing has earned me a lunch break.
Undergraduates in the British Library reading rooms
One of the long running debates regarding the British Library reading rooms has resurfaced this week. Upon entering the library this morning I was handed a letter of invitation to the Reader's Committee (or similarly titled initiative); it's self-purported goal, to discuss requirements of readers…
The dreaded Beyond the Text application is done; bagged up and ready to post tomorrow! Hurrah!
Printing now. I've put more effort into this application than the grant is worth. Fingers crossed!
is within the word limit!
199 words facing redundancy cuts. Can this go on my C.V. as management experience?
just had a jovial chat with Russell Hoban; which again was a welcome distraction from the funding form.
motivational tips to finish the final furlong of funding forms?
the Rover is replaced! (with a Vauxhall Astra)
♻ @timeshighered: Paul Layzell leaves Sussex to take top job at Royal Holloway: http://bit.ly/d08OoN. Prepare yourselves RH; you're next.
Lucid Lynx beta 1 released. http://is.gd/aP0JR
good luck to Pekka Kontiainen for her thesis viva. It's called "Living on voles - plastic life of the Ural owl", which is better than mine.
Blog: http://post.ly/Ts7G International Pynchon Week 2010 Abstracts #conference #ipw10 #thomaspynchon
The BL appear to have misplaced all my books this morning. Great!
International Pynchon Week 2010 Abstracts
The abstracts for International Pynchon Week 2010 are now online! Of course, I would thoroughly recommend my own paper, which will focus on terrorism and the Cold War in Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld. In the interests of blatant self-promotion, I cite the abstract here: In…
Sussex Occupation featured on BBC News Education. http://is.gd/aNqaM #savesussex @USSU
♻ @USSU: RT @EducationUSSU: BREAKING NEWS: The Vice-Chancellor has lifted the suspension of the six suspended students! #savesussex
♻ @USSU: RT @commsUSSU: Sussex, Michael Farthing & @USSU president Tom Wills on the Beeb - http://is.gd/aNf9L
... ie. an edition of the text, not the phrase!
can someone recommend a translation of Das Kapital, please?
Full breakdown of recurrent HE grant allocations: http://is.gd/aN52D
♻ @timeshighered: Breaking. English #highered fundiing allocations 2010-11 in full: http://bit.ly/cPf59d (9 pc drop in total grant)
It's an obvious one... but: can you give us an album release date? :P #askthechems (if I say please?)!
♻ @zotero Individuals and research labs have already purchased Zotero storage upgrades in 40 countries on six continents! http://is.gd/aMjws
David Foster Wallace archive material http://post.ly/TUIW
#dr10 Google Blogoscoped now echoes @AJCann's social media overtaking traditional search. http://is.gd/aMhxv
David Foster Wallace archive material
I've just, a few days belatedly, checked out the Howling Fantods website and caught up with the news regarding the Harry Ransom Center aquiring the DFW archives. I thought it would be apt to post a link to the fantastic scribd scans of some of this material. I particularly like the editors…
USSU passes motion of no confidence in University of Sussex management. http://is.gd/aM7pw
♻ @ucu UCU criticises Sussex decision to move meeting to building by road after learning of nursery kids' protest: http://bit.ly/a73YHh
Sussex SU emergency meeting is full. No confidence motion should carry.
Can we avoid the S word regarding David Foster Wallace http://post.ly/TOuK
Can we avoid the S word regarding David Foster Wallace?
The London Review of Books has just published a blog post entitled Wallace v. the Terrible Master. You can read the full article here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/03/16/alex-abramovich/wallace-v-the-terrible-master/ My concern is that, in every recent web publication on the author, the only…
Off to Brighton for a, thankfully, shorter day of meetings.
British Library usage made clear http://post.ly/THgf
Guardian Clinton piles pressure on Israel over settlements http://is.gd/aL2qF BBC News: Clinton affirms US Israel support http://is.gd/aL2pW
British Library usage made clear
It's only really during the mass exodus of a fire alarm that the sheer scale of operations daily at the British Library become clear. Here's a picture I snapped of the readers flocking back into the building. Lucky this didn't happen yesterday during the Digital Researcher conference! It was also…
Fire alarm @BritishLibrary
I get worried when the anonymous Nietzsche/Schopenhauer researcher who always sits beside me at the BL doesn't appear.
managed 250 words of thesis, despite conference all day. It's 250, all out though.
#dr10 The end is almost nigh. Feedback forms. Don't you love them?!
#dr10 is the number 3 trend in London today!
#dr10 #dr10group8 Output: http://bit.ly/ddgsl7
#dr10 <3 for wordle
#dr10group8 Hugo and Ian; get your non-digital personas back here!
#dr10 blogs used as evidence of public dissemination for funding proposals
#dr10 FYI: Wordpress and Posterous both allow you to retain full copyright on your posts
Humanities Map
The result of a humanities discipline map for Digital Researcher 2010 at the British Library!
#dr10group8 how's it going guys?
#dr10 which publication service for Open Notebook humanities research? For Posterous, for example, should license be on each post?
#dr10 ...on CopyLeft, don't neglect the impact of Richard Stallman and GNU
Back to the main arena all! #dr10
#dr10 re. Twitter citation; is 140 characters enough to convey serious citation-worthy research?
#dr10group8 easy posting of web content http://bit.ly/Pm8MD
#dr10group8 http://bit.ly/CLgo8 is a web-based RSS reader for your feeds when you are on-the-go
#dr10group8 http://www.tweetdeck.com
#dr10group8 Here's a shortened link: http://bit.ly/9N9Flz
#dr10group8 here's the url shortener: http://bit.ly/
#dr10group8 a new message
#dr10group8 find me, follow me
#dr10 ... that's only semi-rhetorical
#dr10 first q: how do we spatialize the web in a meaningful, non-gimmicky way?
#dr10 a call for silence
#dr10 is a PLE hardware or cloud based services?
#dr10 #group8 here's a nice hashtag for us!
#dr10 do we have to "transact", or may we view our relationships in terms other than capital?
#dr10 for tech info: it's just DNS that is failing (circumventing via SSH tunnel here)
off to the BL (for a change) for #dr10!
still need to shave 250 words off the funding application. Varnishing the MDF cupboard doors is suddenly more appealing.
Having just speculated what happens when we over-rely on tech for conferences, Twitter appears accessible again! http://bit.ly/9H276Y #dr10
Dark cloud looming
Tomorrow I plan to attend the Digital Researcher seminar day at the British Library. It promises to be an excellent day providing insights on how researchers can best employ microblogging, social networking, social bookmarking/citations and many of the other nifty collaborative elements of the web…
AJ Cann raises some good points re. citation software and institutional support for non-MS platforms in comments http://bit.ly/cEqHZr #dr10
in the spirit of #dr10 comes a blog post on social citations http://martineve.posterous.com/thomas-pynchon-critical-bibliography-zotero-g
Thomas Pynchon critical bibliography Zotero group
In the spirit of social networking/research interaction, I have established a Zotero group for researchers working in my field; the novels of Thomas Pynchon. The site is here: http://www.zotero.org/groups/thomas_pynchon If you haven't used Zotero before, it's the ultimate open-source, freely…
sshsplit featured
My first attempt at Python got a slot on the Ubuntu opportunistic developer slot. Check it out here: http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/06/the-grand-app-writing-challenge-submissions/ Also, note, first post to posterous.
Taiwan goes the right route on Death Penalty http://www.reprieve.org.uk/2010_03_10Taiwanontheroadtoabolition
Reform the house of Lords; remove Bishops. http://www.power2010.org.uk/home
oh god, Nick Clegg, what are you playing at? http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/11/nick-clegg-praises-margaret-thatcher
has just booked conference flights to Poland :)
Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Winterton: passengers who travel in standard class are "a totally different type of people".
new Don DeLillo. mmmmm.
If we've not already guessed, "the woman" is, again, the lady V. of Stencil's mad time-search.
Went to see car, as arranged with vendor. Travel takes an hour. Get there and he tells us he's sold it.
TODO: Buy Kitchen [X]
TODO: Buy Kitchen [ ]
funding applications; text annotations; thesis chapters; B&Q kitchens; all to a soundtrack of Black Box and Technotronic
hates finding cars
loves topcashback
just won a free T-Shirt for sshsplit in the Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week's "Great Apps" contest!
the Rover has died a final death. Now need to find a new car within 24 hours. Sub £500. Great.
it seems that the ARC interview was, after all, a success!
sanity. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/mar/03/james-bulger-legacy-disturbed-children
Zotero's "suppress author" button sounds somewhat Stalinist to me.
14.40 to London
sshsplit 0.1 released! http://pro.grammatic.org/post-sshsplit-a-dynamic-tunnel-multiplexer-74.aspx <3 python
ARC interview concluded with an indeterminate degree of success.
sshsplit: a dynamic tunnel multiplexer
Introducing sshsplit sshsplit is a GPL-3 licensed application that multiplexes ssh dynamic tunnels. For example, you might normally run: ssh -D 54321 remote-host to get a tunnel on 127.0.0.1:54321 that goes through remote-host. However, if you are using a network-resource-intensive application…
08.55 to Sheffield
anyone else out there for #DR10 yet?
just can't bring myself to finish annotating this sodding chapter.