Archive for October 2003

Universal library.

Saturday, October 25th, 2003

Whether Amazon’s new “Search Inside the Book” feature will really change Life, the Universe and Everything (or at least, the way knowledge is archived and accessed) remains to be seen. For now, this Wired article by Gary Wolf does a good…

Mature student.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

Ah, school. What can I say about school? I love school! I was really bummed out when my first class ended last week; we spent a lot of time on introductory stuff so we didn’t get to do a lot of actual linguistics, and I was itching to get down to th…

The Great Unknown

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

So, tomorrow is my first day of school. I’m really, really looking forward to it. I don’t remember the last time I was so excited at the prospect of going to classes - probably when I first went to college as an undergrad, way back in (gulp) 1…