I’ve spent most of today listening to my robotic overlord (his name is Alan) read out chunks of my thesis in the vain hope that I would better spot typos or errors that way. The idea — far too good to be my own, and I think stolen from Nick Anstead — is better in theory than in practice.

The rest of the day has been spent battling for BibTeX style files, and finally making up my own. I never realized how many bibliographic choices one has until I had to sit through the custom-bib dialog. Editor names reversed or firstname lastname? Proceedings and Collections in quotes or not? Years in brackets? Unfortunately, no optimal solution is known to exist: congealed preferences (mine and publishers’) seem to dominate.

Oh, I must just say a couple of things: Wheats is teh awsumz, David was never quiet, my flatmates suffered, and Bianca might even make it to the defence.

That is all. Goodnight.