liedra.net revision circa 2014
It’s almost 15 years since I first bought the domain name liedra.net. I started out with the site full of terrible poetry and homages to Nick Cave. It then went on to host my first ever blog, which I...
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On the shoulders of giants
This article originally appeared on medium.com. This is a reasonably quick tutorial on a new workflow that I have been wanting to perfect. The aims of my workflow are as follows: To be able to...
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Straight from my mum’s recipe folder – this is an oldie but a goodie (and 1 day too late for Australia Day…) If you don’t have golden syrup, you could try maple syrup or honey. 1 cup rolled oats 1 cup...
View ArticleFuture Research Leaders
I was lucky to be chosen this year for the DMU Future Research Leaders scheme as one of 12 from a pool of 40 candidates. Today was the first session where the programme was outlined and we all...
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Today I turned off Facebook.
Since 2007 I’ve been on Facebook. That’s around 8 years. I had around 300 “friends” and I enjoyed some of the long discussions I’d have with people on there. However, it’s just not worth the privacy...
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Learning history through Dungeons & Dragons
So I’ve been DMing a game of Dungeons and Dragons regularly for a few weeks now. It’s not my first game, but it’s certainly my most complex. It’s the first where I’ve built the world up fully myself...
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This year I implemented a bunch of new things in my “Introduction to Research and Ethics” module, including peer assessment. I hadn’t done it before so was a little nervous about it, but it worked out...
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Leicestershire Round Walks for LOROS
Because a couple of friends of mine (and their families) have been very well treated by LOROS in their end-of-life stages dealing with cancer, I have decided to raise money for LOROS by giving myself a...
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Online anonymity isn’t as easy as the firms offering privacy apps want you to...
This article was originally published on The Conversation. You can Whisper it, but don’t expect it or you to stay secret forever. Malcolm Campbell, CC BY-SA In a post-Snowden world, anonymity is what...
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