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.

Tweet Blender

The end of serendipity? Google knowledge graph seeks to second guess your searches: http://t.co/yRSCvu15 Is this a good thing?
4 days ago
Currently translating a manual on how to make a handpump. Background research takes ages but gives great feeling of learning something new.
2 weeks ago
@RiaBacon helloooo! i've been suffering from exactly the same problem.
2 weeks ago
@lucypepper Good to hear from you. Real life is getting in the way of my virtual self. Maybe I should outsource the overworked part.
2 weeks ago
Fat tax now! RT @AP In 20 years, some 42 percent of the U.S. population will be obese, new government report says: http://t.co/ImZK2ETt -EF
2 weeks ago

Stet in a cloud

Ria fotografia

Photo Galleries

Gallery One

Ria Galleria

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

Ria[dot]Bacon[at]gmail.com

Heed the tab count

When is it time to quit for the night?

“You are about to close 47 tabs. Are you sure you want to continue?”

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March 11th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Google+, Work in progress | Leave a comment

End of the Non-aligned Movement

First HDR photo using a tripod, which means no more caffeine-induced wobbly hands and blurred photo merging.

What do you think?

 

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January 13th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Google+, Photos, The nether lands, Work in progress | 2 comments

Victim of my own success

After the summer break, I got busy setting up a new eLearning platform for our local university. It was an upgrade from a version I had introduced to a limited group of students last year, and offered lots of features for interactive learning with a sleek interface.

In the last two weeks, my colleagues and

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September 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Geeky, Work in progress | 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

Content still counts

The law of diminishing content

First off, a disclaimer: I love discovering and using new Web 2.0 technology and tricks. However, it sometimes seems that the people I would most like to share with are the least likely to use the technology; worse still, the people who tend to dominate new media are the

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March 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: The nether lands, Work in progress | One comment
 
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