- A holiday. Preferably somewhere tropical and with a beach.
- Given that the chances of getting a tropical beach holiday at the moment are slim, I’d settle for a long weekend. This is made more painful by the fact that we have a long weekend coming up this weekend, but us university employees have to work. BOO!
- A booksale of the secondhand/used book variety. Am I sad to want such a thing? It’s just that I have such fun at booksales - just remembering the recent Save the Children sale, and seeing Ampersand Duck write about her recent booksale has got me all wistful again…
Update: Now I’m even grumpier - not only are we still suffering from a dearth of bananas, I’ve just heard that some of the stone fruit crop has been badly affected by frost - no apricots?? No nectarines?? I was already grumpy because I’ve been trying to decide what to do re Blogger Beta. Found a blog listing all the existing problems…
I’ve very peeved with Blogger at the moment. My feed doesn’t seem to have been updating for a few days now (thanks to those who’ve emailed to ask, and I’ve also noticed that Bloglines hasn’t been registering any posts) and I just checked the mailing list to find that apparently this problem has been caused by the fact that Blogger seems to have changed the feed URL.
If you are reading this post by visiting my blog directly you will see a link at the bottom of the page: Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This feed is the correct feed, but what is really irritating is the fact that my aggregator (Bloglines) isn’t picking this feed up. It detects the old feed, http://flexnib.blogspot.com/atom.xml, but this is no good, as this feed doesn’t work!
Just checked using Sage, and Sage detects the correct feed! Yep, I’m peeved. It wouldn’t be so bad if I could at least tweak the settings and make the correct feed more prominent and auto-detectable, but I can’t seem to, at least, not easily, and I don’t want to spend hours trying to fix it - I have other things to do with my time.
Not happy, Jan!
Apart from the presentation ‘first’, the conference was the first large one I’d been to in years. The last time I’d attended a big conference was during my student years. I’d forgotten how difficult it can be to find people in a big conference. I didn’t get as much time to chat with people as I would have liked, and found all the rushing around from keynote to presentation to keynote, quite tiring.
I would have liked to have had more time to talk with some of the presenters, too - there were quite a few interesting papers, and I found myself wishing there was a way to sit with presenters and have a good chat, ask questions, and so forth. I’m glad I took copious notes - I’d intended to write things up immediately after each day, but it just didn’t work out that way. Still, my notes are detailed enough that it’s hopefully not going to be too difficult to reconstruct things.
I’m glad things are back to ‘normal’ now. I’ll now have time to catch up with blogging and all those emails I haven’t answered… and then there’s all those books I haven’t read… and lots of ideas - what can I do with them? Work’s going to be busy, too, with our regular end-of-year planning. Never a dull moment!
