I'm going to be in Boston in two weeks, for a week. (Arriving Sat 28th, leaving Sat 4th.) It's your last chance for a while to hang out with me sans small child, and I don't know when small child will make it to the US after that.

I'll definitely want not-coffee. I'll probably want dim sum. Just saying.

So here I am in Dubrovnik, and today knell and I went on a little organized excursion to Mostar. At some point before we crossed the border into Bosnia (yeah okay, technically Hercegovina), Mike wondered how many countries our child will have been to before having even been born ( Read more... )

I am off on holiday tomorrow. I figured that would make a nice first post after months and months. We'll be going to Dubrovnik for two weeks, and I am going to try my hand at this strange concept of 'time off' and 'not working'.

Apropos, for all you who were present when pekmez and zubatac got married, what are some good things to do in / around Dubrovnik?

I came across the following job posting today (location would be Dublin, so no, I'm not really going to apply.)

A full-time (40 hours per week) vacancy has arisen for two motivated and well-organised Research Assistants (one a historian and the other a software developer) to work on the ‘1641 Depositions Project’.

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The successful humanities ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, lyonesse!

Two months ago I'd failed to get the British Academy fellowship, and was pretty much out of prospects for next year ( Read more... )

My mother's fiancé has a Canon EOS 40D that he would like to replace with a 50D. Body only, all original cables & accessories included, $800. Shipping arrangements to be worked out between you and him. If you're interested let me know and I'll put you in touch.

One thing about Twitter / Facebook is that it does make me really bad at updating LJ when news happens, and the past week or two have been full of news ( Read more... )

For those of you who do/have done fixed-term contract programming ( Read more... )

1. I wonder why the English word for the country is "Netherlands", when I as a native speaker find it much harder to say that than "Nederland", which is their own word for it ( Read more... )