From the vaults of Tombolablog.... this one has been 'on the needles' for even longer than my knitting projects. Unbelievably, the PhD paper it refers to [below] actually got published (not just written, published) several months before this sees the light of day. Incredible. I can't help thinking now that this would have been better back in 2006. Back when blogs were popular. My excuse for holding it back was that I wanted to make the graphics better. I think you'll agree, the wait was worth it! Hmmm.
Anyway, here we go. This was written around March 2007:
Since December 2005, an ever-present feature on my to-do lists has been 'write papers from PhD' [and this blog entry has been on the to-do list since October 2006, To-do list Ed.]. Despite a couple of false starts, the papers remain in pretty much the same state they were back in January 2006. Back in March 2006, my PhD supervisor was down in London to give a seminar. We went out afterwards and I was - as always - inspired by his energy and enthusiasm. I've not spoken to him in person since then and the papers still seem as far from completion as ever.
What I need, it seems, is some way of harnessing his motivational skills, somehow replicating his impact on me, even when he's nowhere near... If only I had some way of doing this.....
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