I’ve quite run out of the habit of keeping a RL, pen-on-paper journal. When I was working on my MA thesis, I had two – one for personal whatsits, and another exclusively for jotting down thoughts and ideas and reflections and screams of despair raised by my thesis. For the past several years, I’ve had a LiveJournal account, which I update quite regularly. Yet I’ve occasionally felt like having a more academically-oriented blog would be fun, too, this time for PhD thesis-related banter.
So, finally, here I am.
(Not that I expect anyone to read the fluff I will (hopefully) churn out on these pages on an entirely irregular basis. But ’tis a kind of diary – with hyperlinks!)
I’ll be writing about stuff like:
* The early (English) East India Company (expect a lot of this!)
* Early Modern (EMod) letter-writing
* EMod English merchants
* (EMod) intelligence networks
* pirates!
* Early European contacts with Japan
* Historical (socio-)linguistics (well, maybe not so much of this)
* Archives and libraries
* EMod manuscripts!
* Digital editions, TEI, XML, XHTML, &c.
..and whatever else I feel like, really.
The first post will come along anon. But probably after HEL-LEX next week. Which reminds me to add:
* conferences
to the list.
And that’s all for now.
ETA: I’m only starting to learn how WordPress works, so bear with me while I fiddle around with layout and functions and addons and whathaveyou. Like tags, why aren’t my tags visible? I may change the skin eventually, or then learn to do CSS and fiddle with it until I’m happy (yeah right, like that’s gonna happen anytime soon..).
Fiddling with CSS: that way madness lies. You know IE hates CSS, don’t you? And yet people use it and you have to take it into account? Also, as someone who has lost days of her life doing that, let me just say: don’t. Hardly worth it.
Academic blogging…won’t understand any of it, I’m sure, but I’ll give it a go.