James' Empty Blog

I've been on holiday recently - yes, I flew, the first time I've gone on a foreign non-work-related trip in about a decade - so the...

I'm adding a new blog to my blogroll: Peripatetic Postmistress , from which I have shamelessly stolen a picture as a tempter: As the nam...

There's an interesting rumour floating around in EGU circles: apparently some people are considering the possibility of sponsorship fro...

Well I was going to blog about this article in which a Japanese TV chef utters the idiotic Nihonjinron nonsense that Japanese people have ...

So apparently "the IPCC" has won the Nobel Peace Prize . Al Gore got the Fiction Prize . According to the BBC, the IPCC is " ...

I'm surprised this hasn't already made more of a splash in the blogosphere, as it's been floating around in the press for a day...

I was saddened to see that Arudou Debito, scourge of racist onsen-owners everywhere, has basically given up on his employer (a university i...

I recently attended the second installment of this sequences of workshops, this time in Durham. It was if anything better than the first , n...

This got briefly mentioned at a workshop I attended last week, and has been splashed around the internet a bit so I might as well add my ¥2....

Having just flown around the world for another meeting, I can't help but wish that someone would put this into production. It's goo...