…The 16-week-old Chihuahua. He came from Sebdah Kennels. “Where’s my dinner?” Paco spent the night in a basket in our room, lying in an old doona. He settled quite well. He whimpered a bit but soon quietened when he realised we were going to sleep and he wasn’t going to get any attention. Initially i’d [...]
Today is Shutdown Day, apparently. It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment [...]
I have a day off today – Time Off In Lieu, TOIL (I love ironic acronyms). I haven’t got anything planned but so far I have been: Playing with Ubuntu. Found out yesterday that a number of the doctoral students I support use open source tools like LaTex and Inkscape and KBibtext (they don’t use [...]