Working with Beckett's Manuscripts http://bit.ly/kb7atR

Abstract accepted for great journal. Same abstract declined by ok conference. #justsaying #phdchat

Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers http://bit.ly/jLOuE1

Comment is Free on aging and our appalling attitude towards the aged http://bit.ly/lhDIcR

New Issue of Miranda: Samuel Beckett http://bit.ly/iB7AUR

This AAB off-quota thing seems nuts to me. Am I missing something? #hewhitepaper

Praying the people who hold the reservation for this seat don't turn up. Off to Manchester for Arthritis Research UK funding panel.

In case you missed it, great comment from @laurapasquini on Creative Commons licenses & academia http://j.mp/jBgIg3 #phdchat

Postgrads: if your personal statement makes you employable, competition for an iPad2 here: http://j.mp/ktBEKM (geared to industry) #phdchat

Google+1 seems incompatible with Google Apps for Domains as they don't support profiles.

Hamleys picks £200 sit-in inflatable Dalek as top present for Christmas http://bit.ly/iHeKha

Where did this notion that strikes are supposed to garner "public sympathy" come from? They are to demonstrate the value of labour. #j30

Education Activist Network: #hewhitepaper "a disaster for universities" http://j.mp/kklwdY

Good find by @laurapasquini: I'd missed that Budapest OA initiative recommends CC-BY http://j.mp/knjLF8 #phdchat

. @redmedicine @BryanRutherford that's the 2003 paper. #phdchat

Made you look? :P 2003

If you were to publish in an Open Access journal that wanted to also go libre, what would be your preferred license? Mine: CC-BY-NC #phdchat

(Consoling myself with statements such as: Pynchon's too rad etc.)

Although I'm disappointed I didn't make it (along with the other 990+ applicants), congratulations to the AHRC NGTs

I kid you not. No trains from here to central London because of overhead line overheating. Not teaching that workshop at Sussex after all.

So today's the White Paper day, eh?

Duckie's Lullaby: a snoozefest http://bit.ly/lg60iD

Nailing the Cause of Recent Linux Power Issues http://bit.ly/iA5acv

Phoronix track down regressions in Linux power management. Workaround: pcie_aspm=force on grub boot.

"That is also why...we are returning to a situation in which workers are denied the right to strike" – Mandel, Intro to Capital, 1976

I have a really serious dislike for package manager upgrade errors on components like glibc. Dare I reboot?

The second that Ice Cream van starts circulating, this Prezi goes into second on my list of things to do.

I'm hating myself a little bit for talking about SMART objectives. Still, it does work :/

(for which I am now doing the Prezi)

Still two places left on my Tech-Task-Lists-Getting-Things-Done workshop on Tuesday: http://j.mp/iDqh10

Taking a Private Trip in London’s Parliamentary Train Service < very cool http://bit.ly/jf35Qr

Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39 http://bit.ly/lpen8M

On my way home from Symbiosis conference now. Great event but trains from Scotland take a while!

Scholarly publishing in hums: delievered book chapter 8 months ago. Final revisions sent off today. Outside chance it'll be out this year.

My dream academic project is really going to happen! Sorry for being cryptic, but need to share while keeping under wraps.

Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges | World news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/jwSoJA

NRAS Very Disappointed With Negative NICE Announcement For Abatacept In Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) http://bit.ly/kkBB0D

Habermas and Foucault as public intellectuals (2011) http://bit.ly/kfc6f3

Paper at Glasgow all done. Not my best to-date, but enjoyable nevertheless. #phdchat

Perhaps the most significant development in academia at the moment: Helvete: A journal of black metal theory. http://j.mp/mnJe3g

Glasgow: as wet as you always imagined.

Hurrah! Article on Pynchon's and DFW's 21st-century work commissioned for @gylphi's new journal, C21. #phdchat

... part of the 8th biennial Symbiosis conference.

If you want to know about trans-Atlanticism in Pynchon's work, Glasgow on Friday is the place! I'm part of a 3 strong panel speaking on this

Joyous Glasgow train journey!

Michel Foucault: Key concepts (2011) http://bit.ly/mCC1MO

The £1.50 saved on Sainsbury's basic pizza is not £1.50 well saved, I am sad to report.

Hmmm. This paper for Glasgow is, I feel, a little dense. At an impasse on how to unpick it and run out of time to do so! #phdchat

Haven't driven in 4-5 years. Have a refresher lesson in 1/2 an hour to start me off again. Nervous!

Great Slashdot comment: Judge: "I see. Well, in the spirit of their crime, sentencing will be 'for the lulz'." http://j.mp/jF9v4u

Surprising! http://bit.ly/iP53a0

Zombies in the Academy chapter: submitted. Now on to conference paper reworking!

Anybody else get Zeno's Paradox when nearing article submission? Last few minor changes take twice as long as all others before. #phdchat

Court Case To Test GNU GPL http://bit.ly/jfkoGN

Labour steps into row over 'big society' research http://bit.ly/kkpubp

Re. Troy Davis: "current court precedent allows the execution of innocent people" http://j.mp/e1ceuU

Troy Davis: Amnesty urgent action http://bit.ly/lHUics

http://yfrog.com/hstpgbfj < the proof is in the reading

Final proofread finished. This makes me happy!

Final proofread of Excursions, Vol 2. Issue 1. Go-live tomorrow!

Excellent; booked to see Assange and Zizek! http://j.mp/mRNDYR Thanks @liannedemello!

That cold that I thought was brewing? Yep. There it is. Urgh.

Utopia Documents now available for Linux. Anybody use? Opinions? #phdchat

Look Facebook. STOP EMAILING ME. I've clicked unsubscribe everywhere I can find and told you not to email me.

of minding and mattering http://bit.ly/lzQgvN

Argh. Can feel a cold coming on, in the middle of conference "season".

Had a lovely day out and about in Portsmouth with @liannedemello. Boat tours. Mmm.

In fact, Chrome web apps are new to me. I need FF for Zotero, but these are great!

ChromeDeck is a total revelation. Thank you @dgcrow for pointing this out to me!

Unfortunately I shan't be able to put Qs to the VCs on @GdnHigherEd's session tomorrow as I'm speaking at the conference at that time.

A very pleasant journey spent re-reading the last hundred pages of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon while listening to Orbital 1.

On my way to Portsmouth for the Enslavement conference.

OK, I was going to respond to comments, but it's descended to pure Have Your Say-esque rubbish now. Oh well! @jennifermjones

. @GdnHigherEd or you could just tell the commenter to read the last paragraph again!

Final version of "The Driver’s Whip is an evil thing: Enlightenment as Mass Enslavement in the Works of Thomas Pynchon" ready for Portsmouth

Never mind, got it, I meant this: http://bit.ly/mJdLB8

Does anybody have that top X number of famous academics link that was going around on Twitter a while back?

Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days http://bit.ly/l6d4dh

Happy Bloomsday 2011, all! http://bit.ly/korDQc

OK, so they don't know it, and they couldn't care less, but my friends are getting married on Michel Foucault's 85th birthday.

Should probably say, as a disclaimer, that I arrived at my PhD with a comprehensive plan, broken down into chapters #phdchat

Evening #phdchat; I'm lurking and might chip in while working, but hope you're all feeling... angry? http://bit.ly/j7aR2v

Announcing Email Sync: Outlook Plugin & Google Tasks Sync - What's up at Producteev? http://bit.ly/kNA931

US universities report sharp rise in UK applications http://bit.ly/m6CpLy

Adobe Axes Air for Linux http://bit.ly/jh0N2f

Just received a lovely email from one of my undergraduate lecturers who noticed I was speaking at his university.

Previously unpublished interview with David Foster Wallace http://bit.ly/mdpJ7R

My piece with @jennifermjones in The Guardian (@GdnHigherEd) on re-theorizing Higher Ed. http://bit.ly/loWOXJ #phdchat

Sigh. Humanities in the States: "online-only publication not viewed very favorably". I really, truly despair.

I don't think politicians understand the concept of an "average". Average means "below average" must exist.

That "A Piece of Monologue" site is one of my new favourites. More Beckett than should be legal! http://bit.ly/bJ0BjE

John Hurt in Krapp's Last Tape (2011) | A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy, Criticism http://bit.ly/iXLcIX

Right. Off to see David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing!

Go into terminal (*NIX or Mac OS X) and type in “cal 9 1752″ at the prompt. http://bit.ly/mfLRXO

Testing twitter update from the command line using bti http://bit.ly/ltgvHu

Calling All Agents: Tom McCarthy symposium at Birkbeck July 22nd-23rd. http://bit.ly/lXr0tM < just registered to attend. £0!

More on the slavery paper, here: http://bit.ly/k2NY9k

Anybody in Portsmouth this Friday, don't forget I'm speaking at the University on Pynchon, slavery and Enlightenment.

Climate change should be excluded from curriculum, says adviser | Education | The Guardian http://bit.ly/jJ0K6o

Getting to my wits end with various hosting providers. Anybody want to go splits on a dedicated server?

Wonder how long it will take my hosts to realise they have lost all connectivity, including telephone, to their data centre.

Have an obscure journal article on Scott of Antarctic from 1913. Will still be in copyright in 2027, so can't just share. Madness.

Something published in 1913 in the UK. This is now public domain, right?

Ask Slashdot: Linux Support In Universities? - Slashdot http://bit.ly/il97Me

Claude Lanzmann on why Holocaust documentary Shoah still matters http://bit.ly/m8k2LD

"Emails will be actioned upon my return." Will they, will they really? #getthatverbsorted #youllhavetoomanyemailstobother

Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default http://bit.ly/lFpPXc

Live Q&A on IP and academia starting at @GdnHigherEd; references my blog post! Come join in. #phdchat http://bit.ly/mCuTak

Interesting piece on rape and slutwalking by Deborah Orr, but overly reliant on legal deterrent as effective (is it?) http://bit.ly/mxnCVu

Tomahawk music app update lets you play tracks from friends libraries, adds spit & polish http://bit.ly/m0yIvn

Queued up many a Pynchon in Public Day report post. Follow @PynchonInPublic to get 'em as they come out!

Right. My conference attendance has to be ramped up this year. Such an expensive exercise, though.

Listening to Dub Syndicate while reading Pynchon. Thought it sounded good, then read of affiliation with Skip McDonald and knew it must be.

283 Oxford lecturers vote against Willetts' plans. 5 vote for. http://bit.ly/lr0yTW

Couple tweet their home birth http://bit.ly/jRjgsA

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill. - Ravi Shankar http://bit.ly/ir3Uwb

Tomorrow is hideous Methotrexate day. However, my Sennheiser PXC350s will arrive. No matter how ill I feel, my mood will improve.

Is it the best possible future? - Gregory Claeys < or is it Pangloss? #outofthisworld

Utopias do not exist at the expense of others/environment - Francis Spufford > what about Swift's genocidal Houhynhyms? #outofthisworld

Disagree with questioner who thinks that all utopias are rooted in elitism. Maybe produced by elite, but supposed to remove #outofthisworld

The catastrophe of the 20th Century threw us off course and made the concept of Utopia almost untenable - Gregory Claeys #outofthisworld

Gregory Claeys gave controversial history of Utopia - moved beyond standard regulative idea. #outofthisworld

I want Ian M. Banks as a dinner guest. Hilarious and engaging! #outofthisworld

On my way back to London for Ian M Banks at the @britishlibrary with @AliB68

Does #NCH's no PhD tutors policy devalue the PhD, making it pre-req for teaching undergrads? Where are DPhils to get teaching experience?

If #NCH gets access to UoL libraries, it will be hailed as a free market success while profiting from state support.

People do realise that this New Humanities College is a privatisation study for Oxbridge, right?

Oh yes. Very exciting new academic Pynchon project. Wheels slowly turning behind the scenes.

Pynchon in Public Day posts will resume next week.

Study finds no evidence of link between anti-TNFs and increased cancer risk http://bit.ly/kmJua0