Right now, I'm sitting on my bed in a very small studio in Kensington. I've been living in this small studio with its single bed for two weeks now. This is my first home in London.
Some weeks ago, I'd been offered a promotion within Canonical. Circumstances made this a …
more ...Months ago, I was perusing my friend Martin's bookshelf on a warm night in Buenos Aires. Martin's a native Spanish speaker and enjoys literature, so it ought not have been too surprising that he had "La Idiota" by Dostoyevsky on his shelf. All of his fiction was in Spanish, which …
more ...I'm moving to London, and soon. I hate moving house. I've done it a lot and each time I do it I still hate it.
Here's what I'm aiming for:
Of it, Virginia Woolf says, "Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it."
more ...When one says that a thing is a "slippery slope", one is obliged to prove that there is a slope and that it is indeed slippery. Likewise, a thin edge of the wedge is only relevant if there is a substantial "wedge" attached to the thin edge, and if there …
more ...I've published a new GPG key: 2048R/2A727997
Details available here: http://static.mumak.net/jml-key-transition-2009-07-13.txt
more ...more ...Jonathan Lange, a 26yr old man presented to The Emergency Department of The Royal North Shore Hospital because he walked into a glass door and cut his neck this evening. He has a superficial lac to the L side of his neck. In our Department he was given ADT, and …
Just the facts:
I'm off to the first Birmingham ever. Birmingham, UK is the first place in the world to be Birmingham in all of history.
I'm there for EuroPython, where I'll be speaking and participating in a Bazaar sprint. Should be back in Sydney next Sunday.
more ...After dispatching my missive on the ethereal winds, I must confess I had little hope. Although my faith in my readers is incalculable, my wanderings have taken me far, and I had begun to believe that I had seen all that has been given to mortal eye to see, and …
more ...There are definitely many worse things than spending a day with Ursula Le Guin's thoughts on rhythm, writing, Tolkien, Woolf, Twain, the Tao and -- of course -- gender.
O'Brian is amazing, I'm …
more ...Dear Reader,
When I wrote to you some weeks ago, I alluded to my quest and promised to tell you of it in my next post. You have certainly noticed that I have not kept my word, and I nurse only the bitter hope that the pain of yet another …
more ...My reading this month so far:
I love O'Brian's books: they make me want to write. Smiley is perfectly characterized.
more ...I recently finished reading Chris Guillebeau's "279 Days to Overnight Success". It's all about how to succeed as a professional blogger. You might want to read it too, since it's quite interesting.
It does, however have this unfortunate section where Guillebeau tries to describe Havi Brooks' work on The …
more ...Just got back from Kinokuniya, carrying:
I dipped into Le Guin's essays on the train -- so …
more ...Presentation Zen posts about a TED talk that I look forward to watching, Mae Jemison: the arts and science are not separate.
Who knows, maybe someday people will stop talking about that left-brain / right-brain crap.
more ...I'm off to Barcelona on Sunday, and I have to have my talks ready by then.
Instead I'm doing actually quite useful things that I've been putting off for ages and will make my life better and work easier.
Sigh
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