home cooked theory

Pew Internet and American Life Project

From the full report accompanying the SMH story:

In emailers’ working life, women are more likely than men to value the positive effects of email for improving relationships, from expanding their circle of colleagues to encouraging teamwork. Women also value email for a kind of positive, water-cooler effect, which lightens the atmosphere of office life.
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Holiday opinion piece practice

This summarises a few things I’ve been working on lately…
It’s little wonder the US military is worried about the loose lips of bloggers on the front line. Over the past few years blogging has become a growing concern for employers of all kinds, whether it’s software companies wanting to protect their latest inventions, universities clamping [...]

This is why I shouldn’t take holidays

I start learning how to use software… kinda!

Working from home

So the book writing is getting to the inane stage – time to start on the ARC application. I need some serious help with this, as I’ve said before. I’m still looking for some help with the brainstorming and with situating what I want to do within currently existing work in the area. The [...]

Christmas cheer

Pressie giving, blog style: Merry Christmas right back at ya mate.

M/C Affect now live

Affect cover
Self-imposed blog embargo lately, for lots of reasons, the most immediate being this… Congratulations Jane, Sandy, Glen – and everyone else involved. Enjoy!

Congratulations

Breaking news: my colleague, Gerard Goggin, and collaborator Christopher Newell, have been recognised for their pioneering work in Disability Studies at the Human Rights Awards. Here’s the press release:

Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid by Associate Professor Christopher Newell and Dr Gerard Goggin has been awarded the 2005 Human Rights Arts Non-Fiction Award.
Disability in [...]

Brisbane Storm

Watch the video
I have been left home alone for two days which may mean that I emerge from deadline hell some time this century. So far this has led me to eat too many [...]

Crossroads panels announced

Istanbul here I come! Woo hoo.