(I could just about have managed to do the online seminar on Steinach and his sex-change rats, but it would have been a bit of a push.)

So, at the meeting of the working group, there was discussion of a projected co-edited volume, and co-editors, I remained silent, because my impression was, this was for The Younger Entry, who need it on their CV.

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What I read
Well, less than I might have done had I not spent rather a lot of time getting my e-reader back into some semblance of order - the upgrade had not only marked a lot of Read works as Unread, it had also managed to expunge a significant portion of my library from the device which I had to put back (and also mark Read). I could not fathom ( Read more... )

I think I may finally have got the online banking thing for the credit card sorted? Not before getting into a tangle of frustration and sending a furious vent via their complaints system about how much time and hassle had been involved when all I wanted to do was give them my mobile number for security purposes. But anyway, I was eventually able to ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks or so ago I had a reprise of that thing that happened last July with Malwarebytes that instead of scanning it was stuck in endless updating and could not be cancelled or paused. And I don't think it was the case last time, that it caused just about everything to run incredibly sloooooowly, which was really annoying and ( Read more... )

Well, I wouldn't be, in her posthumous shoes, as it were.
Okay, I was slightly interested - and a bit beswozzled - to see in one of the promotional emails that flits pasts my gaze from Amazon, The Complete Works of O. Douglas: Scottish Historical Novels, Including the Memoir of the Author. At what is admittedly the attractive price of 99p for the ( Read more... )

Once again, the amazing knockdown Palgrave Macmillan sale of normally horrendously pricey ebook editions of academic works.
I mean, I still have unread several of the books I picked up in this event in the past two years: however, it looks as though at least I may have pretty much covered most of what's relevant to my interests, because I really ( Read more... )

Well, I've finally got back in to the email account I was locked out of, after spamming (without result) various former colleagues with anguished wails last week: I tried resetting my password yesterday and lo and behold, the system accepted it. No, I have no idea why things had changed.
String of apologetic emails for late response.
Yesterday ( Read more... )

So, I have been trying to cancel a Kobo pre-order for over a fortnight.
And how you are supposed to do this is go to 'My Account/Purchase History/Pre-orders' and lo and behold, you have an option to cancel pre-orders there.
Except that when I do that, I get an Error Message (and this is common to all browsers I have tested it in) and I cannot do ( Read more... )

It's really annoying when there has been An Annoying Technological Thing, and it seems to have fixed itself, yay, and then it goes and unfixes itself again, viz:

The LJ cross-posting thing, which was actually working for a bit but then decided that it was not on speakers with DW again;

and I thought, after a software upgrade, Kobo desktop interface ( Read more... )

Feeling a bit frazzled on the shopping front this week - was not able to get a delivery slot in spite of obsessive refreshing, not exactly conducive to getting on with anything else with any concentration.
In the case of other things besides routine grocery shopping - and honestly, navigating round online supermarkets is a bit of a faff, I think it ( Read more... )