Archive for the 'writer' Category

Touché Mr Paul. Touché

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

The ability of an author to bend the English language to his will and articulate a thought in a manner that is both entertaining and concise is the very essence of fine writing. As someone who spends more than a trivial amount of time embattled in the writing process, I understand just how difficult it [...]

Confirmation Document DONE!

Thursday, March 18th, 2004

It is done. I did it. It is complete.
All references in. All diagrams in. All words in. All finished.
Some quick stats:
It is 77 pages long
It contains 16,941 words
It contains 502 paragraphs
It contains almost 100,000 characters
It was open in MS Word for 16,371 minutes
It was hell.
I’m not 100% happy with it; there are some things I [...]

Paper Completed

Monday, March 8th, 2004

Well, the EuroSIW paper is done and handed in; thank god. It’s not a fantastic piece of writing mainly due to the fact that there is little room to work in nice sounding stuff that strings together given that the paper is not focused on theory but rather on how fedWS is used. Have a [...]

The state of the document.

Friday, March 5th, 2004

Ok, well, like most nights recently I have been writing and writing and I am glad to report to all that I will no longer be asking any of you to give me 1500 word on component models. I finished that section tonight and I like the way it has come together and how it [...]

Shhhhh

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

Ok, so right now I am meant to be involved in a “writing frenzy” from which I should produce something that looks sort of like my paper for the Euro SIW. Here’s what I have so far:
this
this
this
this
and this
If you were expecting to see some writing then you obviously don’t know what post.grad life is all [...]