I have now handed in my thesis—fully printed and bound. According to the graduate office, they expect the examiners to report within six weeks, so in theory I could hear back as soon as the end of October. However, I can’t do anything until the University gets back to me one way or the other. […]
Thesis finished
After almost two years of research and writing up—a process hampered somewhat by needing to combine both tasks with running a freelancing business or having a full time job at the same time—my thesis is ‘finished’. At 121 pages, it is quite a substantial tome, containing about 80 pages of solid text, 30,000 words and […]
Autumn clean
This weekend I’ve been recalled back to my parents’ house to clear my old room so that it can be redecorated, which means going through the enormous amounts of stuff I’ve collected over the years and throwing out as much as possible. Some of the things I’ve found whilst sifting through the piles of paperwork […]
Thesis (almost) finished
Got an email from my supervisor today, just a few minor changes needed to my thesis and a final summary of conclusions saying how brilliant the research is and then it is ready to submit! With any luck, I’ll be able to make the changes by Saturday, do one more full check for spelling/grammar mistakes, […]
First draft of thesis
After another week’s worth of work, I’ve got to the stage where I have a complete full first draft of my thesis, all the way from the abstract to the conclusions. It’s now in my supervisors’ inboxes awaiting comments, though at 30,000+ words and 113 pages I suspect it will be a while before they […]
Final chapter
I thought this would never happen, but I’ve just emailed the final chapter of my thesis over to my supervisors for initial comments. I now have until 14 September (allowing time for printing and binding before the final submission deadline) to iterate over the whole thesis as many times as possible to shake out any […]
Identify LaTeX symbols
Those of you who use LaTeX regularly (as I do, both for my academic work and other papers) might find this LaTeX symbol classifier helpful. Basically you draw the symbol you want to produce in LaTeX and it will provide you with a list of matching symbols and the commands to reproduce them. Far more […]
My next degree
Degree in rhetoric from UCLAN. Very tempting. 🙂
OpenTech, APIs and the T word
I was down in London last weekend for OpenTech, which was up to the usual high standard and full of useful talks on all manner of techy things. I made some useful contacts during the course of the day and have some ideas for how to take a couple of projects forward as a result. […]
All quiet on the East Didsbury front
Things have been a bit quiet as of late, work keeps me busy during the day and most evenings are spent catching up on admin (e.g. sorting out the upcoming UKUUG conference) or writing academic documents. Not being involved with FoE has freed up a lot of time, but it all seems to have disappeared […]