Archive for May, 2006



Buddy Space

Published on May 19, 2006

Well, I loaded it up yesterday, and I must say I didn’t find it very intuitive to use. Gill and I had a conversation, but the system seemed convinced that Gill was offline. I don’t understand the maps facility. Frankly it could do with some sort of Help facility other than telling me who programmed […]


Exciting ideas

Published on May 17, 2006

The thing about going to conferences is that your mind starts rushing around making connections between all the different things you’re hearing. At the U500 conference, where people are researching everything from the moons of Jupiter to the 15th-century viola, the opportunities for overlap are huge. I’m currently into the applications of gaming software: how […]


Being quantitative

Published on May 15, 2006

I just wrote a Visual Basic program to help me with my data analysis. How quantitative is that 😉 I’m picking out words and phrases in my data which are likely to be indicative of the appropriate coding, then I’m inserting a note by them with a suggested coding. It would be better if I […]


Phew!

Published on May 12, 2006

Well, I’ve written up my pilot study in the form of a 5000-word journal article. The idea is that my supervisors critique it, then it gets critiqued at my probationary review, then it emerges as a lovely fully formed article which I can send off for publication. The only slight snag is that, owing to […]