And Director of the First-Year Writing Program. Notes, reactions, memory palace. Selection of scholarship and continuing research. Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies. Future teaching, proposals, upcoming presentations.

Friday, June 19, 2009. Welcome to The Digital Age of Broadcasting. That fuzzy old boxy analog TV set that has been relegated from prime time viewing status in the living room, to a back up in the kitchen, to the late night night light in the guest bedroom is now little more than junk. But of all its wonders, digital does have some drawbacks.

If you read my last few posts, I made a pledge to sleep outside until I finished writing my first novel. The story was about a 12 year old boy who got stranded on an island off the coast of British Columbia. Without any survival experience, he had to rely solely on his imagination to survive from summer to spring.

Confessions of a contemporary fine artist. Derek Murphy is an American surrealist painter living and working in Taipei. Or reading more about me.

My notes on Quantity Surveying and the UK construction industry. The government, and most of the private sector too, is very committed to. The thing is most of the effort, quite rightly, focuses on site performance and delivery. But has anyone looked recently at the estimating and pre-tender stage? And in particular the amount of time the estimating teams put in to following some ridiculous CSA documents.