(b)logophile

I’ve been typically lax about putting the word around, so if anyone hasn’t heard yet about my housewarming: consider yourselves invited. It’s this coming Saturday, starting early because Bos en Lommer is far from the centre and the trams/metro stop running at midnight. Contact me for directions, it’s close to the metro station De Vlugtlaan. [...]

This is just too damn cool. LibraryThing is an online cataloguing system that lets you publish the contents of your library. And it comes just in time: my books here only fill four pineapple boxes (those low-sided ones — no volume but easy on the back for moving), but now that I’m here for another [...]

The defence is over, I passed, I’m officially Tikitu de Jager, MSc. The Dutch equivalent, which I am also entitled to, is ‘Doctorandus’: Drs. Tikitu de Jager. (The possibilities for confusion with this one in New Zealand are evilly tempting…) Better still, I graduated ‘cum laude,’ which I find slightly surprising and wholly delightful. Geek [...]

Finally, I’m into the new place. There have been a few hitches along the way, mainly involving keys (first the bloke who was supposed to give them to me left for Spain, then a new set was duplicated and sent through the post… and are presumably still somewhere in the post…). But I’m in now, [...]