Ben Saunders, a fellow Oxonian blogger, just wrote a post on choosing your Oxford college, and I thought I might jump in with a few suggestions of my own. For the uninitiated, the college you choose will have a fairly big impact on your time in Oxford. It will be your major point of contact [...]

Sorry to be so uninteresting of late. While waiting for me to hammer my thesis together, why not read some fine web comics:

Nine Planets without Intelligent Life
xkcd
Dinosaur comics
PhD
Digger

These have all been mentioned here before, but may prove novel to those who haven’t been paying very close attention. Feel free to suggest more to one another.
For [...]

For several weeks now, I have been keeping the mini-tripod that I bought for my trip to Turkey attached to my point and shoot digital camera all the time. Doing so has proved useful in a very great many circumstances: primarily those in which low levels of ambient light have been available. Many of my [...]

Tonight was just gorgeous. While daylight savings time has thrown me for a bit of a loop, there is no denying that bright blue skies at 7:00pm have appeal. Bright evenings always remind me of judo, and of walking home from practice through the surprising warmth and light of a new season.

My supervision today highlighted how much work remains to be done on the thesis. Also highlighted were some of the things I have learned over the course of the project about the issue area, and about the nature of such investigations. When you are studying something that thousands of people have studied, and you don’t [...]

Please note: I will be in Branscombe, Devon working on my thesis between the 31st of March and the 7th of April, as previously noted. During this period, I will have limited internet connectivity at best. Upon my return, I will have sixteen days left to finish my thesis, so don’t expect to hear enormously [...]