December Hiatus

One of my photos of snow-bound Liverpool

Dear all,

It's been a long hiatus from this blog over the month of December (though I assure you not from the work which the blog is intended to catalogue). I'm back now though and for the first time in my studies I feel like I'm actually achieving something. Chapter One is now in progress - although the amount of reading I thought I'd done that I now need to scurry back and do is astonishing - and I also have a few other side projects that are progressing nicely. 2010 was a pretty good year for me but here's hoping 2011 gets even better!

I'll be posting up something pretty exciting in the next few hours so check back.

All the best,

Glyn

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along

- Friedrich Nietzsche

And so I have opened this blog to the wider world. Tomorrow (or is that today?) I will begin commenting on my research on this blog. As it's still early days expect to see a lot of things moving around and changing as I settle in, the list of link on the right is sure to grow for example.


I have nothing else to say tonight other than explain the Nietzsche quote - It was an easy thing to create this blog, to design it and fill it with pretty colours and a half-relevant background. Adding to it, maintaining it, filling it with my academic process, that's the hard bit. I've created many projects similar to this and normally I have nothing to say. By keeping this blog academically(-ish) focused I should be guaranteeing at least four more years of material, Monday is after all the official start of term for my second Ph.D year.


Onwards and Upwards.


On a related note - I paid the first installment of my new tuition fees today, ouch. That's all I'll say on the matter.

What is this?

What Is This?
This blog is a diary. It's an online record of my research, beginning in the September of my Ph.D's second year and continuing until I tire/forget about the blog and it gathers e-dust.

Why Bother?
Whilst I already have an electronic presence on the internet that I can direct people to (see my Academia profile) it is a very formal and turgid profile and behaves more like an online (very empty at the moment) CV than a record. I will continue to use my Academia page but it will only receive updates when something is completed (a review, a paper, a talk) wheras this blog will allow me to record the progress, and if someone other than myself is reading this, possible get feedback, communicate, and connect with like minds.