Last year, as I don't particularly expect anyone but myself to remember, at the beginning of November I found that I had been cut off without warning from the email of My Former WorkPlace Where I am still A Research Fellow, and only after several failed attempts to connect with IT people did I get in touch with relevant Departmental Administrator, ( Read more... )

Came back from hols last week and had the usual massive amount of washing etc to catch up with, plus final opportunity to meet up with old acquaintance from the antypods temporarily in UK promoting a book, and the symposium of Learned Soc heretofore referred to.
And then finally got on to various outstanding things that had been hanging over my ( Read more... )

Further to my rant last Friday, I had a phonecall this morning from somebody at the organisation in question -
Who had actually taken the trouble to walk through the steps I'd taken and found, lo and behold -
Even if you are logged in it tells you to log in at that section of the site and if you try to log in you go round in circles.
And the ( Read more... )

Has anybody, anywhere, NOT found Windows 10 to be the work of the devil? I keep getting notices about it flashing up and telling me my computer is compatible, but what I've heard does not incline me to go Wheee!!! and install it.
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My computer does weird shit anyway:
Opening Word docs as Read-only that I never set to that status, and if I close ( Read more... )

These are all very first-world problems, but, on top of my not feeling 100% well with vague and intermittent symptoms that don't constitute me sick enough to get off work and existing commitments, aaaaarghsome.
I was not entirely prepossessed by the dermatology clinic at London Teaching Hospital last week, since, although it was no longer in a ( Read more... )

Email from somebody who is research assistant to A Clueless Senior Academic, on a wholly-work-related topic, to my home address.
Am prepared to bet that ACSA said to research assistant, contact the knowledgeable and helpful Dr Oursin with this question about a specific collection of archives -
Without, however, giving the RA my work email contact ( Read more... )

Last autumn, dr rdrz may remember, I had ongoing problems with A Certain Financial Institution.

Which did, eventually, get sorted.

However, their general standard of incompetence remains high.

Having received a communication from them with the intelligence that I could pay a certain amount into my ISA before the end of this year, I thought (o, ( Read more... )

I'm currently reading, for review, a biography published by the University Press of a Distinguished Antipodean Institution of Teh Highah Learninz.

Which apparently does not employ editors.

I've encountered more professionally put-together self-published biographies.

Quite apart from the actual text of the thing, which reads like a 'dump all the ( Read more... )

I'm not entirely persuaded that these statistics are entirely meaningful:
Majority of UK doctors struck off have been trained abroad.

Let's say I have the strongest suspicion that the General Medical Council has a good deal of prior form on stringent disciplining of doctors who are not part of Dead White Male networks, while Good Ol' Boys with the ( Read more... )

I posted (at the contact person's request) notice of a forthcoming event with which I am associated to a listserv to which I am subscribed.

With a line at the top saying, among other things, 'I am not the contact person'.

So they have actually changed that part of the text which says 'If you would like to attend please contact [contact person's ( Read more... )