London calling

Hmmm, I suspect that the Clash reference may date me rather accurately. No matter. Despite what I said here, I am going to the MA Conference in London, though I expect the Scottish contingent to be somewhat smaller than in previous years. We shall see if any of the interesting-looking sessions will live up to their promise. Certainly the last conference in Edinburgh was extremely disappointing, the keynote speakers in particular being, on the whole, very poor. Not that they necessarily lacked anything interesting to say, rather that they seemed incapable of making what they had to say either interesting or entertaining - and even at a professional conference there is a ‘showbiz’ element to public speaking. Frankly, there were not enough jokes, and too much stumbling and bumbling.

Who knows - if I can get internet access down there, I may even be able to blog from the conference. Now how exciting would that be?

Completely off the point, but I’ve seen a lot of these ‘What 80s Band are you?’ and ‘What language should you learn?’ type of quizzes. Now if there was a ‘What Asterix character are you?’ quiz I am quite certain that I would be Dogmatix. Some who know me may of course think that this is pretty obvious.

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