I'm about to head off to Barcelona for the ICWSM conference: leaving tomorrow, and getting back in two weeks. I'm mostly ready... that is, I've packed just about everything I can think of, printed (and packed!) a poster to present at ICWSM, and I have a vague idea of where I'm staying. I still feel a lot less prepared than I'd like to be, but there ( Read more... )

Kinda busy this week - there will undoubtedly be a bit of lag on replying to emails, checking messages, etc ( Read more... )

Dear diary,

On the holidays, I went to Coruscant. It had suburbs named "Chicago" and "Toronto," but I wasn't fooled at all. As soon as the sun went down, all traces of the natural world disappeared from the landscape and I knew that I was a long way from the old-fashioned trees and rocks we have back home.


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I had a sudden flash of nostalgia yesterday, as I waited for an early-morning tram down Bourke Street. I'd been awake for far too many hours, the tramstop was across the street from the old Abyss venue, and I was heading home ( Read more... )

As much as I love maps, sometimes the best time to read them is after you've found something. That way, the all-important random wandering can take place, and you can still identify whatever you have just stumbled across ( Read more... )

I know, I know - long time, no updates. Long time no internet, in fact - the closest I've come was a few minutes on CensorNet (public libraries in Devon Shire, where the mere thought of allowing people to use LiveJournal could see mild-mannered librarians having fits), and about two minutes in Perpignan attempting to use a French keyboard...

aeliel is ( Read more... )

Culture shock ( Read more... )

"Scotland Not Britain" reads one oft-repeated chalking on the buildings of Edinburgh's Old City. "End English Rule!" is proudly marked on a building across the laneway. Nationalistic pride is strong in Bonnie Scotland, but I think they have it all wrong - far from being under English rule, this part of the world appears to have quietly become ( Read more... )

I've spent most of today swallowed up within the vast grey void of the international airport domain, as the airlines decided to send me from Dublin to Edinburgh via Heathrow ( Read more... )

I'm posting snippets, mainly so things don't fall straight out of my head ( Read more... )