as the dead

I realise that I've been silent for quite a bit longer than four days in the past, but this trend seems likely to continue, what with looming assessments that are the fortune of every Ph.D. student in their final year. One comes this Monday, another in a month, and in there too is some necessary travel, three separate talks to give (one in front of more people than I can count), and a backlog of wet work that has to be done as soon as possible, and in a highly ordered manner. Which all really screws with my sense of comfort, perhaps not enormously, but more so than most things.

I'm not closing up shop yet, so entries will be forthcoming for those that care, just not as often as I would like. If everyone depended on RSS feeds to browse*, then this wouldn't matter so much to me, as you'd immediately know if I'd made a recent update, but most of my few regulars don't, simply dropping in to see if things have changed every now and again.

On that front a lack of entries is just pants; I don't want to drive you away until I'm quite ready.

This is simply notice to say that there will be less hot action here than usual, but (pause - mmm, that was a good orange!) all is well, if busy, and if I seem to be ignoring you more than is usual on iChat, just assume I'm a typical, rude Englishman and take it less to heart than you might otherwise. Unless you're English, in which case taking it to heart is probably a worthwhile exercise.

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*wtf?! RSS? Huh? Was? Qué? Bu-bu-bu-bah?
Quick lesson in RSS
RSS reader for OS X
RSS reader for Winboxes
And my RSS feed: http://stairs.happenchance.com/index.xml
   ...paste the above address into an RSS reader, not a regular browser