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2 July 2009
Mind the door doesn’t slam your arse on the way out
A while ago, there was much fanfare over at Nature Network as a celebrity of sorts started keeping a weblog there.
I like Nature Network. I’ve got a bunch of mates there, it’s possibly a bit cliquey but in a way that doesn’t exclude new, interesting people, and very few people are nutters, up their own backside or into the whole “let’s pick on creationists because it’s good for traffic” thing. A nice bunch, on the whole. Unlike the wankers at scienceblogs.com who bore me stupid.
So this cove has basically said ‘Thanks! I’m off to Scienceblogs.com!’ after a month or two. And points the NN bunch to his RSS feed.
Shrug. Yeah, whatever.
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22 August 2008
There was a do about iTunes U the other evening. Interesting stuff, cool gadgets, lots of Kool-Aid, wine and canapés. USyd probably won’t do anything though—UNSW are already on board so we can’t possibly. Which is a shame: central admin have no bloody idea, even though the Faculties of Science are actually pretty keen on this kind of thing (they’re paying for me to go to this, for example).
Anyway, the important thing is that I scored a cool freebie:
Woohoo!
5 August 2008
Pickle me a herring and call me a Dutchman
I — like I suspect just about every civilized person on the planet — have a thing about old maps and books. So I like to keep tabs on BibliOdyssey.
I sent the link to CK, giggling at the phrase
Holland is impolitely interrupted during breakfast as a stray bomb lands in his cup of cocoa.
CK writes back that his
great uncle was one of four Dutch soldiers to be injured during WWI. He was in an observation post when the Germans ‘accidentally’ lobbed in some a small shell. The explosion set fire to their store of cooking oil and he was a bit burned trying to fight the fire.
Good enough for him to claim a war pension for the rest of his life.
As far as I can tell, just about every male member of CK’s extended family did something in one of the two major unpleasantnesses in Europe last century, from sinking U-Boats single-handedly to rescuing 45,000 Polish refugees using only a rubber dinghy and a bag of flour.
Amazing.
31 May 2008
English place names have a special place in my heart. To some of them we owe a debt that never can be repaid.
Yesterday, we said goodbye to Bentley Priory. And this piece of art is remarkable:
30 May 2008
observe, to trade (on our terms) and occasionally fight the French & Germans.
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