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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.