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Monday Message Board

Monday, May 12th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Monday Message Board

Monday, May 5th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

When good spamcatchers go bad

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Akismet, my spam filter, is going a bit wild at present, after a long period when it worked fairly reliably. I’ve rescued six comments from the spam queue just now, but I may well have missed some.
As noted in a previous post, I’ve also become much harder on trolls, so there’s more going to moderation. [...]

Monday Message Board

Monday, April 28th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

RSMG blog back on air

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

After a period of quiescence, the Risk and Sustainable Management Group blog is back on the air. Some recent posts:
David on Monopoly Buyers and Market Based Instruments looks at the buyback of water from irrigators
David on Aus gets bigger but has funding increased? asks whether the expansion of our territorial waters will be matched by [...]

Monday Message Board

Monday, April 21st, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Trolls

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I’ve become much less tolerant of trolls lately and have banned several, here and at Crooked Timber. Simply put, after blogging for six years, I’m no longer interested in, and no longer have time for, dealing with people who are rude and insulting, particularly if they are rude and insulting to me (biased I know, [...]

Monday Message Board

Monday, April 14th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Monday Message Board

Monday, April 7th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Monday Message Board

Monday, March 31st, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Monday Message Board (Tuesday edition)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I took the Easter weekend off, so here’s the Tuesday edition of the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Monday Message Board

Monday, March 17th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Monday Message Board

Monday, March 10th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Monday Message Board

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Hamlet without the Prince

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

In the February edition of Prospect, William Skidelsky has a piece on the decline of book reviewing. As is standard for any adverse trend in the early 21st century, blogs get a fair bit of the blame. The write-off (lede for US readers) says

the authority of critics is being undermined by a raucous blogging culture [...]

Monday Message Board

Monday, February 25th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

What I found on Wikipedia today

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

In mathematics, the monster Lie algebra is an infinite dimensional generalized Kac-Moody algebra acted on by the monster group, that was used to prove the monstrous moonshine conjectures.

Crikey going cheap

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Club Troppo is organising a discounted group subscription to Crikey.

Monday Message Board

Monday, February 18th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

Monday Message Board

Monday, February 11th, 2008

It’s time once again for the Monday Message Board. Please post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.

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