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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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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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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June 19th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Geeky, home front, Metablogging, Photos | Leave a comment

State of the Internet 2011

Working in the publishing section of the UN a few years back, I was familiar with acronyms such as, SOTWF or SWP (State of the World’s Forests and State of World Population, respectively), which represent the “flagship” publications of the UN. A new flagship can now be added, although it’s by Online Schools rather than

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July 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Metablogging | Leave a comment

Come together

Ten days into the summer break and I feel a change coming on: no longer thinking about teaching projects and grading, my mind has been increasingly filled with personal geeky projects, driven in large part by the recent purchase of my first smartphone. I’m not going to give in to the boring clichés (it’s like

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July 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Metablogging, News in brief, Work in progress | Leave a comment

Head in the clouds

I recently took advantage of the cheap software available for university staff and ordered Adobe CS5.5 Web Premium, bundled with InDesign and Captivate for … 26 euros … and MS Office 2010 for … 12 euros! I know! GTFOOH, I hear you cry enviously.

I actually hesitated about the second purchase since so much of

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June 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Metablogging, News in brief | Leave a comment

Pissing in the wind

I’m halfway through an Outlook training day for which I signed up after Outlook 2010 was introduced at our university over the summer, replacing the previous Groupwise system. I had hoped for a sleek overview of an ultra-efficient workflow, but instead we’re working our way along the toolbar, stopping every now and then to send

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November 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Metablogging | Leave a comment
 
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