Tuesday 4th Sept 2007

Replied to a student's e-mailed Dissertation query.
Set up new web space for a "new students" page.
Dropped the updated module documents into the spaces ready for them in the 1st-year handbook, only to see a virtual explosion of formatting and styles erupt on the screen and destroy half a day's work. These handbooks have been gradually developed and modified over about a decade by different members of staff with different operating systems and versions of word, and finally the document is crying enough! Took about half a day to get the Physical Geography version of the 1st-year handbook even close to acceptable. This is work for a colleague who is off sick: it's not a document I usually work on. Hence my surprise at its formatting and structure!
Eventually spent the WHOLE DAY working to get these handbooks and related materials into some usable shape.

Am getting towards the end of "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat", and am thinking about scale-dependency and bi-fractal phenomena, and how they might all relate in some conception relevant to geographical analysis (quantum geography).