Archive for July, 2006
Friday, July 28th, 2006
After a long wait, I am excited to announce that I have accepted a visiting professorship at RIT’s School of Print Media for the 2006/2007 academic year. And the news gets better — barring no unforeseen circumstances, in September of 2007 I will automatically move into a tenure track position at RIT. And by automatically I mean without having to participate in another academic search cycle. From that point on, I have approximately six years to earn a PhD.
This has been in the works for quite a while. However, I’ve been afraid to blog about it until it was a done deal. If this had fallen through, I’d have been crushed. Thankfully, the letter finally arrived this morning, and I personally delivered the signed contract to the Dean this afternoon. I am on cloud nine about this.
Aspects of it will be tough. Seven years (counting this year) isn’t a lot of time to complete a PhD while still carrying a full course load. I’ll be diving into the application process this year and evaluating a number of programs in the Western NY area in the months to come. And RIT has promised to assist me with the PhD process, which is a huge help.
Thanks for being patient with the lack of updates. There are still some surprises to come, but I am relieved to finally be past this one.
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Ok. Just got an e-mail. It looks as if, by the end of today, I can finally start sharing some of the big news.
In the meantime, I’m still chugging away at a number of things.
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Vas is dis barcamp?
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
Vere and Ven is dis barcamp?
Big Auditorium on the First Floor
B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology
20 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
July 14th 10:00 AM until LATE EVENING
More Info
https://barcamp.org/BarCampRochester
I just found out about it and will be attending for a few hours. Should be pretty interesting. Anyone whose got time should stop by.
And yes, I did scale a .gif — we shall never talk of it again.
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
Ok, so I just found out today, that at least one big announcement needs to wait for a bit longer. Like to the end of July. Which I’d really like to share, but until pen has met paper, I don’t want to jinx anything — though I imagine with that description, hopefully everyone will have a good idea about the news.
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Ok, so I’ve been offline for a few days, suffering through a bit of a cold. Awaiting for me on my return to the internet were 63! spam comments, held in my WordPress moderation cue. While the spam situation has been bad, this is off the chart. A long while ago, Mike Zucca suggested a few steps to prevent them — I think its time to actually make them happen.
Oh well, happy Fourth of July all.
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