After working in Humanities at Avenue Campus in one way or another since 2003, tomorrow is my last day.
Another ISS person is down at Avenue, I’m going up to the main campus and hopefully everyone will miss me
It’s hard to work out which place is the best to be. They both have a [...]
Colleagues may have noticed yesterday’s publication by the Guardian of league tables for particular disciplines.
Particular congratulations go to Film Studies, who figure at the top of the table for Media, Communications and Librarianship. Southampton appears as third in Modern Languages, behind Oxford and Cambridge. Archaeology (10) and Music (14) also appear in the top twenty [...]
There are a lot of things to complain about in this world. There are the easy ones like ‘why do dentists charge too much’ and ‘why haven’t I won the lottery yet’, and hard ones like ‘how do I complain that another blog I read is so very wrong without looking like an idiot’. We’ll [...]
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Everyone in IT got an email today saying that ISS aren’t allowed to have personal websites on www.soton.ac.uk/~username. I used to use mine for silly little things like practising php, hosting funny (but fully legal) files and putting large files that are too big to email for other people to download. Apparently this is too [...]
It’s been an interesting week for me and mostly about learning new things.
I had a talk with the IT depearment’s human resources person last week about progression through ISS. It wasn’t a job interview but a ‘what can you do’ talk. I think this is a great idea as people on the main campus never [...]
Some more uni work. Just a test
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There really should be rules for Wikipedia. Maybe I should start off a list
1. Never use Wikipedia.
1a. If you do use Wikipedia do not admit to it
2. If you use wikipedia do not include it on your own website (www.southampton.ac.uk/isoton)
3. Never ever edit your own Wikipedia page to look good
3a. If you do edit your [...]