Monthly round-up March 25
(Teilo was my writing buddy this month)| The Ed Techie
August used to be a month for slowing down and simplifying, of lifting your head up and looking around with renewed curiosity. When I was working it was the time when meetings and deadlines evaporated, the calendar looked abashed at its nakedness. I used to create a summer plan to investigate topics that I had put off, to play around with tools, read books, explore ideas and generally switch things up from the regular working pattern. But what to do in August when your whole year is like that...| The Ed Techie
July has been one of my busiest ‘academic workload’ months since leaving the OU, being the examiner for two PhDs, a Professorial promotion case and completing my reports as external examiner at Warwick. It’s good to occasionally flex the academic brain muscle still. And yes, I have to confess, I have been enjoying the comedy around the Warwick “Beyond” rebrand. It has become a byword in our house already, for any pretentious but ultimately meaningless marketing twaddle. In other new...| The Ed Techie
After 3 long years, January has finally ended. On the personal front it’s been going well. Now that I don’t have as many meetings, I decided to shift the ‘vibe’ of my room from ‘home office’ to ‘vinyl lounge’. This involved the inevitable trip to Ikea, and purchase of the favourite of vinyl collectors, the Kallax unit. It’s interesting to note the manner in which the change in the physical set-up alters your behaviour. We used to have our records split across three rooms, bu...| The Ed Techie
We went to the coast for a week over Christmas, and had an unexpectedly sunny day on Boxing Day, the drinks in the picture above were outside a pub in Tresaith.| The Ed Techie
