Posts from — January 2004

I've just submitted my last course request that I will need to submit in a while (you never know). It was for my last 6 credits of research and dissertation for my dissertation. This means that I expect to finish this degree this spring.

Let's see, i started taking classes in my ph.d. in the spring of 2001 and if i finish in the spring of 2004, that is spring 2001, 2001-2002 year, 2002-2003 year, 2003-2004 year. 3.5 years of part-time study, working 40 hours a week or so. that really should be considered good, i think.

the bankruptcy trustee of lingua franca is demanding tha authors give back the money they were paid for the work they performed or else… to me, this seems silly, now i can see that there are 'secured interests' but they have to fight over the money that's left, not the money that's gone. people get paid to do their job, once they are paid, that is that. Mr. Geltzer, the trustee, needs to learn that capitalism has ethics.

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• Virginia levied the fourth-largest cut in the nation of higher-education spending during the past two years, slashing college budgets by 17.8 percent.

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• The annual funding shortfall for all public colleges, as calculated by state officials, has doubled since 2000 to roughly $400 million .

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• Average faculty salaries at many schools are in the bottom third of their nationwide peers.

Everybody Googles Everybody. Well, not quite everybody. Not quite yet. But people do google people. This came up in the infamous MLA thread, where an Anonymous Member of a Job Search Committee warned: I'll be interviewing people at MLA, and, trust me, we've… [Invisible Adjunct]

Bags. Having a good laptop bag is really handy; if you have plenty of place to put things, odds are you'll actually find you have those things when you get to Aarhus or Atlanta or wherever you suddenly discover that you need a different dongle. [Mark Bernstein]

—— i like their style.

Fla. Judge Orders Public Defender Arrested in Courtroom. This needs publicity. Please pass it on. Osceola Circuit Judge Margaret Waller had a Public Defender arrested in court because… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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this judge was out of line. the defendant gets all the rights remember, all of them and all of the documents too, they get every right to defense, and this Judge Margaret Waller doesn't seem to understand that. it is the prosecution who is at fault here as it is described. Judge Margaret Waller should, if this is true, be removed because she doesn't seem to understand the innocent until proven guilty part of the system, which implies that the innocent get all the tools necessary to prove their innocence.

there are quite a few people looking up the blur building of late. I think it is an interesting design and worth reconsidering. There is a certain anti-materialist aesthetic to a low hanging cloud in the middle of lake, especially when that cloud is in fact a container of sorts. I think that is why I like it.

and that his tax cuts had as much to do with recovery as china hosting the olympics, a more likely explanation is the low interest rate and the building boom.

Interview with Francis Muguet on OA at WSIS. Eric Goettmann, Le libre accs au Sommet mondial de l'information, Captain Doc, December 2003. An interview with Francis Muguet, chairman of the Scientific Information Working Group of the WSIS, on the WSIS endorsement of open access, its negotiation and significance. Read the original French or Google's English. [Open Access News]