Too Sexy For My Books

In the last 18 months I have now moved countries twice and houses/flats 5 times and every single time I am always amazed by the sheer amount of stuff I have. Thankfully this move just done was nowhere near as stressful as the last one - if it wasn’t for the support of Kimanada, […]

One of the first acts of the new Australian federal government was to scrap the RQF (Research Quality Framework - similar to the UK’s RAE).  Yesterday its replacement process was announced - Excellence in Research for Australia:  ERA.
One of biggest issues concerning the defunct RQF was that of metrics - in particular citation analysis.  As […]

Heehee - this just dropped into my spam folder . . .

Win A Signed Bass At ACDC.com
Should I enter??
Now just hoping and praying for a similar comp to win this cab and amp . . . *drool*
“Who Made Who?”, ACDC

Lured by the promise of chocolate I attended the SEOLondon pissup following SES London on Thursday night. If it wasn’t for the said chocolate (I’m a simple creature really, just give me tea, chocolate and a foot rub and I’m a happy little bunny) I would not have had the courage to gatecrash go […]

An example of my quasi-belief in Fate occured this morning (okay ‘fate’ is probably too strong word but cannot think of another better).
What started off as a vile morning - overslept, slipped over in shower (now have large bruise on thigh), ran out of conditioner, battery in toothbrush cut out with only having worked for […]

The lack of blogging has been noted and in attempt to revive too sexy kimananda has sent out the dreaded meme tag. I will rise to the challenge and hopefully this will inspire some frequency in my posting habits.
If I’m going to do this I better do it properly and follow the rules:
- Link […]

I am committed to my profession. I am a big supporter of ALIA. I am wondering though, is this really necessary??

Library Lovers - 14th of Feb
… For centuries February 14 has been known as Valentine’s Day, a time beloved of romantics. Now a new era has […]

Last May in a Groenjords kitchen I made a flippant statement which has surprisingly held true: ‘Eurovision - the love has gone’. It was only today listening to ‘Land of Make Believe’ by the 1981 UK winners, Bucks Fizz* that I realised since that declaration Eurovision and I have in fact parted ways.

I […]