katielou

January 2007



troublesome technology

Sunday, 28 January 2007 7:46 P GMT+01
In the conclusion of my MA dissertation on digital editions of manuscripts, I wrote that perhaps the neck and eye strain felt by today's screen readers was akin to that felt by the faithful craning up to decipher stained glass windows. In this m
Category: work play
Katielou

bootiful moosic

Tuesday, 23 January 2007 9:13 P GMT+01
The voices of angels... well maybe not, but not bad, all the same. I'm so NOT listening for THAT bar! Abenlied (Rheinberger) and Beati Quorum Via (Stanford), as massacred by the Sage Gateshead Chamber Choir.
Category: play culture
Katielou

high and low culture!

Sunday, 21 January 2007 10:25 P GMT+01
Had a bit of a hectic week last week. Never seemed to stop, but got to enjoy a quick trip to London. I'd bought mum and dad tickets for Sound of Music at the Palladium for Christmas (part of my attempt at ethical/non-carbon-footprinting/non-buying-cr
Category: play culture
Katielou

please, no

Sunday, 7 January 2007 11:00 P GMT+01
There's something perhaps about the number of students coming from years out as army, or that it's just the natural alternative to being a law whore for a Hatfield male (and esp the historians) that makes me fear for them. I think the year I had nine
Category: thinks
Katielou

usch vad hemskt...

Tuesday, 2 January 2007 2:38 P GMT+01
Why do I find this difficult to get my head round? In Sweden, of all places. And why no simple dna test? Sobering thought. Courtesy of no-longer-hemliga-pappan.
Category: general
Katielou

$100 laptop

Tuesday, 2 January 2007 2:03 P GMT+01
Well apparently it's nearly here: the laptop which one day will cost only $100. I'm intrigued about a few aspects - is there really a third way after windows and apple (or fourth, if you count linux)? Is a 366 power going to be enough (I remember my
Category: work
Katielou

better than sex?

Monday, 1 January 2007 2:28 P GMT+01
Passing almost unnoticed amongst the rest of the news was an article about IVF success in Denmark. Or rather, an improvement on IVF. Indeed, an improvement on nature, as the success rate can even better natural conception rates. It's also much cheape
Category: general
Katielou