Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

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Lies, damn lies & Excel: This Was Reinhart and Rogoff's Biggest Mistake. http://t.co/joGtbGQq1N
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Stet in a cloud

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Now hear dis!

FYI

Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.

...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

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Contact

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Coursera crash

I’ve been busy the last week with my first MOOC (massive open online course) run by Georgia Tech via Coursera. The course was about the fundamentals of online course design. Ironically, the course management was a lesson in how NOT to organize a course online. Signing up for study groups was naively done via a

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Fatal conflict: Teacher 2.0 and Student 1.0

Details

Issue: Incompatible integration of module Teacher 2.0 with multiple versions of Student 1.x

Type: Bug

Priority: Major

Description

Since September I’ve been working with first-year nursing students on a series of language tasks to improve their professional knowledge of English. I used our online platform moodle.hz.nl as an interactive learning space to present new

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Ria Galleria revamped

After a frustrating few years using PixelPost (I’m slow to frustrate), I finally revamped riagalleria.com with WordPress. There’s something so comforting about a fresh WordPress install — it’s so familiar and reliable, but always coming up with neat new surprises (version 3.4 has über-cool live previews).

Ria Galleria relaunch

If only every relationship had

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Geek rapture

Honestly, what did nerdy geeks do before browser extensions and apps?

Geek rapture with new font ID extension

Ah yes, trainspotting.

 

Truly this is the time of geek rapture.

This was first posted on

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Define nitpicky

Of all the Jobs anecdotes doing the rounds from Isaacson’s biography, this one stuck in my mind:

 

“At one point, the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated,” Isaacson writes:

Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused

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