My department (University of Auckland, Computer Science) is advertising an academic position.

Deadline is 14 March 2008. I am happy to answer questions about what it is like working here. Send in your applications – only CV and cover letter required.

Like millions of other people, I have finally decided to start a blog. I have taken the opportunity to do some extra work and start to migrate my old website here. Thus there are a lot of posts dated before this one – there is one for each research paper, for example.

I am not known for self-deprecating statements. However starting a blog takes me outside my comfort zone of normal behaviour, so I thought I would continue this by choosing such a title. If you don’t see why it is self-deprecating, see this site and perhaps this one.

The main purpose for the moment is to force me to indite, in a disciplined way, some of the many thoughts that rattle around my brain almost continuously. I hope that others may find some of these interesting and informative. I aim to post at least once a week – let’s see what happens.