On @HCDRJacob's CM6 ROM and custom kernel I have run my Wildfire all day with wifi and still have 80% battery. Amazing.

Bob Neill [...] condemned the strike as "old fashioned militant muscle-flexing"; presume new fashioned way is to lie down w/out a fight?

The books on my "to read" list in between formal teaching/research reading http://yfrog.com/ncgvpyj

(That was via @philosophybites)

A call for general strikes and mass civil disobedience to oppose this farce of fairness http://bit.ly/atoBsU

Catherine Pope appointed communications editor of "Victorian Network" Open Access journal http://bit.ly/a2ims6

Cool that @engadget reported on my work, shame they didn't drop my name or a website link, though! http://bit.ly/bQpo5i

Dear right wing spam monkeys, just because I tweeted the word socialism doesn't mean I want to read your inhumane laissez faire crap.

William Morris' death attributed to "enthusiasm for spreading the principles of socialism" by his family doctor.

A titillating title selection http://bit.ly/cVtKfc

Second book chapter submission [CHECK]. Looks like I might get a weekend after all.

Some fool neglects the fact that mobile phones require a mobile phone antenna. http://bbc.in/aPw9g9 #notimetravel

People will say anything to avoid being tortured you idiots.

Sawers says MI6 don't torture while falsely implying that it has value and would prevent terrorism http://bit.ly/cd9Ijb

Just bought tickets for the revival of Sarah Kane's Blasted.

Please, no more work tonight. Having a beer and reading Russell Hoban to stop.

(oh, and here's the real reason why: http://bit.ly/ccbBWz)

Best API call ever: "Returns "true" if the user interface is currently being messed with by a monkey." http://bit.ly/bcJ51N

Oh yes, that's a good one: Gove "[cuts] consultancy costs" by giving unadvertised contracts to his pals. http://bit.ly/ahQWsL

Err, week 4, even.

Utopias and Dystopias week 3. Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville.

Oh dear. No Victoria line. Looks like I'm going to be pushed to make that TLDU session.

An eloquent defence of Arundhati Roy by @liannedemello http://bit.ly/cCwtLl

Long weekend ended. Much work worked. Now the teaching to teach.

Love how Android news sites crow when HTC release their kernel sources. They should do this parallel w/ distribution to avoid GPL violation.

More on IE9 and its, once again, useless support for standards. http://bit.ly/cDUvD9

Microsoft have claimed that IE9 will be CSS3 compliant. Blatant rubbish, again. http://bit.ly/chZ3r3

Using Facebook w/out a VPN or tunnel of your own leaves you exposed to sidejacking. http://bit.ly/9IHPIT #SSLFAIL

Some idiot thinks the way to stop sexual harassment is to outlaw miniskirts, rather than address male attitudes. http://bbc.in/d7puo8

Email overload keeps killing my Sunday evenings. Although there are tech "solutions" most seem to amount to ignoring ppl, which I won't do.

And the piece is off. Hope University of Poitiers press like me!

Final push on the Pynchon and Wittgenstein book chapter and then hoping to submit later.

Firefox 4 overtakes Chrome and Safari in sunspider JS benchmark for first time. http://arewefastyet.com/

Doesn't ruling out unlimited fees also reduce access? (Funding withdrawn, option to recover privately likewise -> institutional closures)

Just rooted the Orange San Francisco. Very pleasing!

Glad to see that @Lord_Browne works on a Saturday. This one's gift wrapped for a response...

Encountering irritation of being emailed form that I have to print and post back.

Another positive from Open Access talk was meeting @lizith -- a face to the Twitter account!

Feminist Utopias seminar was great. Next week we go West with Hawthorne and Thoreau.

Surrounded by lawyers complaining of overwork while discussing their house extensions. There's a Shakespeare line.

Well, I resisted the newspapers until now. I'd just like to ask how the hell they think private sector will suddenly boom and make jobs.

Shame we aren't doing 1984 today. I could've quipped about a cold bright day in November with the clocks striking 14.

So quiet on Twitter this morning. Guess that's the economic depression factor.

RT & follow @pocketlint @Gameloft_UK to win the new Samsung Galaxy Tab http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36308/win-samsung-galaxy-tab-competition

Week 3 of Utopias and Dystopias today: Feminist variants thereof. Perkins-Gilman and Sarah Scott.

A VC (physicist) writes on the value of the Humanities and calls for solidarity. Thank you. http://bit.ly/ckJTVJ

A certain email that I have just received from a certain institutions' upper echelons re. cuts could have been written by Cameron.

Getting some lovely emails as a result of Open Access talk: very heartening!

Almost home for some joyous thesis work!

I can already tell you which disciplines will be hit hardest and don't know why RCs are being so coy.

Open Access Week event went pretty well - pragmatic idealism. Will tweet Prezi when home.

http://yfrog.com/jk6nwzj Open Access Week vanity post

First Fictions is another of the side projects in which I am involved.

The cut man cometh, oh @Lord_Browne will be pleased.

Well and truly cold on my route down to Sussex today. Hurrah for winter!

Speaking at Sussex Open Access Week tomorrow! 12 o'clock. Library Meeting Room (which I have yet to find)...

Right, written 500 words, heading to the gym while there'll be less of a crowd. #DayAtHomeNotSoBadISuppose

Dear The Guardian, I expected better from you than to use "electrocuted" when you meant "electrified" or "received an electric shock".

Vintage posters in abandoned tube stations. http://bit.ly/cv3SCw #whatliesbeneathLondon

Consoling my no-library-blues by writing a passage on Pynchonian Enlightenment ambivalence while listening to The Orb feat. Dave Gilmour.

I had one research day this week. Just spent an hour trapped in tube tunnel and no route to library. On way back home now. Cries.

I heartily recommend the SCRIVENINGs of @Discombobul8r and his FABULOUS PROGRESS for your TITILLATIONs! http://bit.ly/9eOHuY

Time to make that Open Access Week Prezi!

"The new Ku Klux Klan": resurgence of homophobic violence in the US fuelled by Republicans http://bit.ly/d7J8y4

Something that gets less media coverage: 2,600 miners died in China last year http://bbc.in/bIEDX2

Evening Standard: Knightley may be no beauty, but at least she can act. Errr.

Wrote 500 and unwrote another 1500 words today. It's much better, though!

At least this pub has Dire Straits on the stereo.

Surreal setting #2 for writing of Pynchon paper; pub around the corner from British Library.

Dear British Library. WHY OH WHY did you have to have a FIRE ALARM on my dedicated hardcore research day?!

Writing paper on Pynchon, DeLillo, terrorism and capitalism while surrounded by bankers on train. Excellent!

I had no idea there was a place called Worcester Shrub Hill. Tempted to get the train there on name alone.

Teaching very enjoyable today. Expansions and contractions, selves folding into Others. Good stuff.

Signed the contract. Now an associate staff member. Eek?

Week 2 teaching of Voltaire and Swift. It's the misanthropic week!

I am now officially listed as a "scips trainer" on the Sussex website. Transferable skills win!

Written -2000 words so far; massive restructuring going well, then!

"What does this say about how society values the arts?" Reactions to Browne http://bit.ly/cn7Jnc

Read this as: "while the Post Office may be mutilated" http://bbc.in/9iXfZi

Admin emails [CHECK]. Next: continuing with second chapter after yesterday's galvanizing supervision.

Teaching prep. [CHECK] Next up: ten mins of joyous email admin to ascertain why IT Services have sent me a contract!

55 mins more teaching preparation now, having been replenished by BL cake.

BioMed Central to participate in Sussex Open Access Week http://bit.ly/bDq9z0

Recover your humanity by listening to Jeremy Irons speaking against execution. Just don't read the comments. http://youtu.be/TVMho2cP1NE

Sunday evening depression inducement: read pro-death penalty "debate" comments on YouTube.

Ubuntu Maverick now released!

Ubuntu channels on freenode have once again reverted to the hilarity of "is it out?" "is it out?"

"I am the best fellow in the world, and already that makes three men I've killed, and two of them priests!" - Voltaire

Meanwhile: seems Firefox for Android is currently not supported on ARMv6, which excludes loads of devices. http://mzl.la/bBeWFh

Listening to Aphex Twin and planning the seminar on Swift and Voltaire, having now acquired the books.

Fennec beta seems to seg fault on Wildfire.

Sunday (10th of October) is World Against the Death Penalty Day. Find out more via amnesty. http://bit.ly/b9ii6H

That was referring, I must add, to the system and not to the lovely staff at the BL!

Damn stack gremlins returned my books. Sighs and reorders.

Christine O'Donnell: "I didn't go to Yale". I suspect rather because she was incapable than any ideological motive. http://bit.ly/b6NoMj

David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King, available to preorder on Amazon UK as well: http://amzn.to/8ZeY1A

2 days until Maverick release and IRC channel reverts to one sole repeated line: "is it out yet?"

What's a PhD viva like? Sarah at Sussex doctoral school shares: http://doctoralschool.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/my-viva-experience/

I couldn't ask for a more articulate, intelligent and sharp group of undergraduates - a pleasure to teach.

Hah, take that Inbox!

Awaiting train to Falmer for my first teaching at University of Sussex - third year course Utopias and Dystopias - looking forward to it!

Also worth noting he would probably refuse it anyway.

It's Nobel prize day and I know what that means! Pynchon won't get it!

It's an old moan, but trains are overcrowded, frequently late and expensive. Bah.

Nobel prize nominations and deliberations stay closed for 50 years, so we will have to wait to see if Pynchon was debated

Nice Ernest Hemingway clue on today's Times cryptic. Can't they move this crossword to the Guardian?

First lecture for the Utopias and Dystopias class I am teaching today. Prof. Tom Healy spoke on More and serio ludere.

Gah, horrendous delays at Falmer.

Perspectivized European stereotypes http://bit.ly/co3Kr5

Err, medicine even. #spelling

Robert Edwards of IVF fame wins Nobel Prize for medecine

Now writing my talk for Open Access Week at the University of Sussex

Open Access Week events at Sussex linked to from front page of Library http://bit.ly/cdHFxd :)

No croissants. #Fail

Have decided that my day will be more productive if it starts with a croissant from the British Library cafe.

Let me try again!

Hmm location for tweetdeck on android appears not to work.

The joy of alternate routes.

Going overground.

"You mean you don't have any monks to [...] govern and intrigue and burn people to death who don't agree with them?" Voltaire

Grim reports coming out ahead of Browne review http://bit.ly/bBNNeE

Fun Voltaire fact of the day: Creationist pamphlet I was handed describes Voltaire as "the noted French infidel".

Heading out to Watery Stones to purchase replacement Voltaire as I shortly have to teach the damn thing. #What?ARealBookshop?

#FF @alexjblandford @mr_oscar @Dystopia2009 @liannedemello @thoughtcat #TFIF

Lots of nasty regressions in linux-image-2.6.32-25-generic yesterday :/

Just spent a long time looking for the copy of Candide I bought 2 weeks ago. It was in the bag nicked 1 week ago. Voltaire vanished.

John Cage's 4'33 on Youtube "contains an audio track that hasn't been authorized. Audio has been disabled." http://bit.ly/90PsIz

The devil can cite Hoban for his purpose RT @thoughtcat Doublespeak, or "you can't choose who quotes you" #russellhoban http://bit.ly/bua4Tx