Working from a shed

Saw this article, Garden offices: The hut parade, in the Grauniad. I think I will do this once I have my own house with a sufficiently large garden…

Marching on with the thesis

I seem to have spent most of the Easter weekend working on my thesis, which was rather boring but I’ve made lots of progress—one whole chapter is redrafted and emailed to my supervisor, and a technical report template is also on its way. Things are looking much better now, all I have left to do […]

The joys of London

Since the early hours of Monday morning I have been trapped down south in London. Alas, my train got in late due to a power failure at Milton Keynes (this always seems to be where problems occur), so I had to cancel the morning meeting and arrange to go back again next week instead. On […]

Wedding and job

The last few weeks have been dominated by a wedding and a job. I spent a week (more or less, when we managed to get over there!) in Alderney for Nick & Jane’s wedding, which was a fantastic event and a chance for me to relax for a few days afterwards as I decided to […]

Getting back into politics

Now that I’m finally approaching the end of my MPhil (first of many drafts handed in today), I’ve spent the afternoon pondering what I want to do once I’ve been freed from academia and let out into the real world. One of the things I’m interested in is getting back involved with politics, sad thought […]

TheyWorkForPerks

I should really be working on my thesis, but instead I’m hacking together TheyWorkForPerks. Freedom of Information is more important than a few pieces of paper with graphs on.

Looking backwards and forwards

Looking back over the past twelve months, I’m not sure that a great deal has changed—the answers to my usual review of the year are more or less the same. I have managed to land a useful ongoing contract for providing membership services, and taken up positions at UKUUG (chairman and director) and MERCi (trustee […]

Research progress

Quick update on my research as people keep asking how it’s going… I have finally got 20 participants for my experiment, which is enough to use in my thesis, although it’s still open if you want to take part. In terms of the thesis itself, two chapters are complete and approved (no changes other than […]