“When you are tired of Paris, you are tired of life!” Samuel Johnson was misquoted as saying. He was actually talking about London. I digress except to say that I have been in a funk. Not so much tired of life as tired of where I have been emotionally/spiritually for a while. Long enough for […]

A few weeks after I took up my first teaching and research academic position, I had a conversation which rang many alarm bells in my mind. It is one of the things that eventually led me to moving to Canada from the UK. For my doctorate I had been doing research into high-performance computing – […]