Common faults that will drop your grade

After reading close to 50 term papers the last couple of weeks, I see that there are many small things that have an impact on the grading. So to all students out there, here are a few hints to what will most certainly improve your grade (next time): Spelling errors: using modern word processors, there [...]

PDF please

I receive a lot of e-mails from students, and even though I always tell them to send me PDF files, they almost always send me the source files for their documents instead (.doc, .docx, .odt, .pages, …). This semester we have started with electronic submission of term papers at our department, and even though it [...]

Eduroam in Australia

I have written about Eduroam before, and will probably do it again. Just to recap: eduroam is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. eduroam allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campus and when visiting other participating institutions by simply opening [...]

What to bring for a conference: Video camera or photo camera

In terms of quality the best thing to do for documentation is to bring your big SLR, your big HD video recorder, your big audio field recorder, microphones, tripods, etc. But when going to a conference on the other side of the world, carrying stuff around for 14 hours per day and moving between rooms [...]

Slow internet… makes for different thinking

I am sitting in a hotel with a horrible internet connection. Not only is it costly, but it is also slow and the connection seems to fall out every 2 minutes. This makes me think about how used we are to having fast and reliable connections these days. It is not that many years ago [...]