As surely everybody on Twitter now knows, a certain multi-million pound contractor to the BBC (therefore paid out of public funds) has shot his mouth off with a statement that those on strike should be "shot". It was, to provide context, supposed to be humorous.

Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment . Edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. 1st ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 (first print: 1944). (p. 30) Featured image by ChrisM70 under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2011 was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on December 02, 2011.

At last, the First Fictions launch weekend, featuring Ian Rankin, Nicholas Royle, Bryan Talbot, Elleke Boehmer, Adam Roberts and many others is available for booking! First Fictions launch weekend: 20-22 January, 2012 was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on December 01, 2011.

Update : Due to my university teaching timetable changing, unfortunately the Wordpress workshops have been postponed. I'll update this post as and when new times are available. A quick promotional post for two upcoming workshops that I am running at the University of Sussex. Book fast, places going already! All workshops can be booked online and are free of charge to Sussex students.

A long time ago, in a different life, I produced a fully functional Intrusion Detection System for web projects developed in C# and/or VB.NET using the .NET Framework. The project was called .NETIDS and was a port of PHPIDS. It feature(s/d) individual page scanning, loading as a web module (callback via reflection to specified code in web.config) and the unfeasibly resource-intensive output scanning.

A quick post to point out that I've written a concise synopsis of Google Scholar over at the Sussex Doctoral School blog. Enjoy! Featured image by alles-schlumpf under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. Guest post on Google Scholar Citations was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on November 18, 2011.

I wanted to draw everybody's attention to the excellent work of Simon F. Davies, one of my colleagues at the University of Sussex, who has produced a fantastic Open Educational Resource on teaching poetry to undergraduates. Were I deploying meiosis I'd say this was pretty good. As it is, and this isn't hyperbole , it's bloody great. Here are the links.

On the 3rd November, 2011, I had the pleasure and privilege to attend Brian Lobel's performance, "BALL and Other Funny Stories About Cancer" on the 10th anniversary of his diagnosis with testicular cancer. The performance consisted of the three pieces, "BALL", "Funny Stories About Cancer" and "An Appreciation". I wanted here to briefly jot some thoughts about the experience. First off, no part of the title contributes towards a misnomer.

Send your own to customer-feedback@bl.uk. Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to express my anger at the closure of the British Library, a publicly-funded building, on the 10th of November in order to accommodate the visit of the queen. This is a clear case of prioritizing a single individual at the expense of the thousands who use your facility on a daily basis and is a flagrant waste of taxpayers' money. 1.) The queen has no work to do here.

This is a bit of a spoilsport post, but I wanted to set down, in writing, some of the reasons that I am extremely wary of the #AcBoWriMo experiment that is currently underway on Twitter. #AcBoWriMo stands for Academic Book Writing Month.

...slightly misleading title; obviously, that doesn't work. I have an OCZ RevoDrive SSD which, although very fast, has some serious problems with my BIOS. The consequence is that GRUB cannot see the device (well, it can, but only after a 15 minute de-power cycle), but Linux can. This causes some headaches. The way I worked around this was to put /boot on a separate partition and have the root filesystem on the SSD.