Monthly Archives: November 2007

I was coming out of CMS this evening and was struck, not for the first time, how terrific it looks in twilight or at night. In daylight, the buildings look relatively sober, though very handsomely done. But later it can … Continue reading →

I needed a bit of distraction after another faculty meeting. Inevitably, in my experience, as soon as departments start talking about root-and-branch reorganization of degree structures, it quickly becomes clear that the existing tolerance, more or less, of current arrangements … Continue reading →

I’ve just been reading four or five assorted recent articles (as it happens, a bit away from my usual logical/phil. maths stamping ground: but sometimes I feel masochistic). They were tedious, unexciting, ephemeral stuff, on issues that is difficult to … Continue reading →

The Guardian today estimates that there are four million bloggers in Britain alone. Yes, four million — i.e. about 15% of the twenty six million web-active people in the country. Ye gods. So much for that famed British reserve …

There are some astonishing finds on YouTube, amongst all the trivial dross. Someone — no doubt breaking all sorts of copyright law, but in what a cause! — has posted the whole of the astonishing 1964 television film that was … Continue reading →