Events conference Day 0: academics meeting.
Leeds, 14-16 July 2010 for the fourth Global Events Congress, hosted by Leeds Metropolitan University. I'm in town to present a paper, alongside my colleague and research partner, as well as pick up plenty of ideas and thoughts from the massed ran...
Travelogue 07: 'laughing all the way to the bar 24.04.02'
Ah shucks: there's a drinking theme to this post as well. What was I thinking, back then in 2002 when my liver was still strong, eyes were un-bagged and hairline yet to recede? A month had passed since the last post during which time I worked the ...
Travelogue 06: 'going the distance 18.03.02'
Number six in this reprisal of travelogues past. The disdain for capital letters remains, as does the now inaccurate email address at the top. I'd say there's plenty more to be said about these couple of weeks, though with limited time at the keyb...
Non-disclosure disagreement in planned research?
I had an interesting chat earlier today about academic research, links to industry, sources of funding and so on. It was only short, though the central issue is interesting and deep: where should the boundary(ies) lie between retaining information...
Travelogue 05: 'and now for something completely australian... 04.03.02'
Back in March 2002 the Queen was a relatively old lady who travelled the world making some speeches and waving; eight years further on and I fear she's becoming typecast. She features in this post, as does a previous Queen and some news from the A...
Travelogue 04: 'men at work 17.02.02'
Part 4 and I've spent a little time getting used to life in Australia and Adelaide, with relatively little else to say apparently. Surely that's a reflection of my general calm and relaxed state of mind at this point: having found somewhere to sta...
Travelogue 03: 'goodbye yellow brick road 02.02.02'
Part three of tonight's triumvirate - it reads as though I found my feet somewhat on this bit of the trip. The email home is certainly longer, though as I recall I had plenty of time to waste in internet cafes before starting work in Adelaide. I h...
Travelogue 02: 'singapore sling when you're winning 21.01.02'
Report two: Dubai to Singapore. What I don't say in these first couple of posts is that I stayed with my aunt in Dubai, so the move to Singapore was a step up in terms of independent travel. As it happened, Singapore was an easier place for me to ...
Travelogue 01: 'something in the air 05.01.02'
Long, long ago, in some lands far away, I followed a typical backpacker's itinerary around Australasia and some of the countries between there and the UK. Blogs were few and far between and I still used Hotmail: the digital landscape was sparse an...
Ware now?
What have the last ten years done for us? Given us an ever-wider range of software for one thing. So, with a sizeable piece of work somewhere on the horizon, mixed up with the everyday cycle of work and play, these are the pieces of software I see...