I am abandoning the What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor that is built into WordPress (they call it the ‘visual rich editor’). It has the extremely nasty habit of randomly inserting literally hundreds of [em] tags and [/em] tags into pages with complex formatting, such as my academic C.V. Usually, it closes [...]

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After a year of using a Mac primarily, I have come to appreciate this excellent operating system. I have also come to understand some of the gaps in it, particularly insofar as the software and tools that it includes are concerned. The following, then, is my short list of essential (free) Mac programs. Naturally, they [...]

Happy Birthday Kelly Kilpatrick
About ten weeks now remain before the start of Michaelmas 2006. Of the major things I wanted to do over the summer - namely, travel, earn some money, and work on the thesis - I have done at least a bit of each. Hopefully, all three will be boosted in August as [...]

The Lonely Planet Guide to Dublin strongly recommended pre-booking a hostel if traveling during the peak season. It would indeed be quite a pain to show up and have to tramp around for hours with all my stuff, looking for somewhere to stay.
As such, I have booked my first four nights (Wednesday to Saturday) and [...]

Apparently, I was rejected by the Centennial Scholarship long ago, but they never bothered to inform me in any way. That makes the last of the set: Commonwealth, Chevening, Armand Bombardier, Senior, and Oxford’s Overseas Research Scholarship.
At least the one £500 award makes me feel good about having spent so many hours filling out application [...]