Gimlé

Trackback Thoughts.

I originally took down the Trackback implementation on this site when I found an error on my part which was screwing things up.

Since then I’ve been thinking about the whole thing and have decided not to put the Trackback stuff back in.

It just doesn’t feel elegant to have a bunch of xml non-integrated in a comment, and as far as I can see that is the only way Trackback can be integrated into a blosxom blog.

Project Thoughts.

My Phd project has been my primary focus for the last few days. Been giving the practical side more thought, been mapping out implementation details as well as hierarchical structures.

On the theory side I’ve been following up on and clarifying what I scetched out in my earlier notes, mostly following up on the conclusions me and my tutors came to in my recent tutorial.

More on both later next week.

It was cool to see Dorothea Salo’s kind words on the project notes. It is in very early stages still, but who knows? Be careful about making offers, I just might take you up on them? ;-)

Course Thoughts.

The course I’m a teaching assistant on has had a series of lectures on all things interactive over the lact three weeks.

Interactive Fiction(my lecture, which I promptly screwed up), Interactive Film (by Tom Abba, another UWE Phd student) and Games.

I’d like to write up summaries of the points and thoughts raised in these lectures if I find the motivation and time (read: don’t count on it anytime soon).

Christmas Thoughts.

My Icelandair ticket to Reykjavik has arrived in the mail, which means that I’ll be spending Christmas in Iceland.

Beginning with a day in wandering in London before the flight (on the 20th of December) and ending with a tired evening flight back on the third of January.

It might be fun to keep a thorough journal here during the festivities. The Icelandic Christmas differs a bit from the traditional western one so I’m going to try my best to weblog it.

People might enjoy reading that.

Chilli Thoughts.

Looks like my chilli is ready.

Baldur.
Clifton, Bristol.