Learn from the mistakes of others

For those of you who are curious enough (or crazy enough) to be interested in what i'm proposing to do for my PhD, this is the (PowerPoint) outline (transformed into html) that i kind of, sort of, presented yesterday. (Tired, brainfucked Aspie in room lit entirely by bad fluorescent lighting is not a good recipe for coherence. Having put it all together the night before because all previous opportunities were absorbed by the afore-bitched about computer 'support' and family disasters did not help. Preparation matters.)

Anyway: ( beware! there be pirates beyond this point! )

For those of you who are curious enough (or crazy enough) to be interested in what i'm proposing to do for my PhD, this is the (PowerPoint) outline (transformed into html) that i kind of, sort of, presented yesterday. (Tired, brainfucked Aspie in room lit entirely by bad fluorescent lighting is not a good recipe for coherence. Having put it all together the night before because all previous opportunities were absorbed by the afore-bitched about computer 'support' and family disasters did not help. Preparation matters.)

Anyway: ( beware! there be pirates beyond this point! )

Today I delivered (by hand,¹ doncha know) my formal application for my PhD for 2007-2009/10 - and that all-important scholarship.

I am very much hoping to get one. $20,000 tax free will go a long way to keeping me fed. Without it, the PhD will have to take second place - once again - to the stupid "realities of life" ... those being that poverty sucks and the only other alternative is to sell hours of my time to someone else.

Come on Universe - give me a chance on this one.

1: the real p2p - person 2 person

Today I delivered (by hand,¹ doncha know) my formal application for my PhD for 2007-2009/10 - and that all-important scholarship.

I am very much hoping to get one. $20,000 tax free will go a long way to keeping me fed. Without it, the PhD will have to take second place - once again - to the stupid "realities of life" ... those being that poverty sucks and the only other alternative is to sell hours of my time to someone else.

Come on Universe - give me a chance on this one.

1: the real p2p - person 2 person

Having embarked upon this idea of a PhD for 2007-2009/10 for serious, I have begun doing some background reading and suchlike.

What's with all these people writing stuff, eh? I just wanted to to a bit of background browsing, and here I am drowning in references. Not even got EndNote installed yet and I have, oh, a few hundred damn things to check through. Waah!

On the upside, I just might get to do the topic I've begun to suspect I very much want to do. A few people have trampled theses all over censorship, content regulation - even damn obvious feminist excoriations on Internet pornography laws. A few seem to have trampled on the topic space covered in recent discussions with possibleSupervisors™ ... to be sure I'll be drawing on InterLibraryLoans.

Looks like I have some interesting, and plenty of tedious, reading ahead. Yay! (After all, what else would I want to be doing with my time?)

Having embarked upon this idea of a PhD for 2007-2009/10 for serious, I have begun doing some background reading and suchlike.

What's with all these people writing stuff, eh? I just wanted to to a bit of background browsing, and here I am drowning in references. Not even got EndNote installed yet and I have, oh, a few hundred damn things to check through. Waah!

On the upside, I just might get to do the topic I've begun to suspect I very much want to do. A few people have trampled theses all over censorship, content regulation - even damn obvious feminist excoriations on Internet pornography laws. A few seem to have trampled on the topic space covered in recent discussions with possibleSupervisors™ ... to be sure I'll be drawing on InterLibraryLoans.

Looks like I have some interesting, and plenty of tedious, reading ahead. Yay! (After all, what else would I want to be doing with my time?)