Got a bit distracted today by Borges.

Looking something up for a paper being prepared for a conference in January, a quick search on the catalogue revealed we had 8 of his books. No we didn't. I'd misread it. We have 80 books either by him or about him. Some in English, some in Spanish. For some reason deciding to be a bit completist about things I ended up with a huge pile in the office working out if there were useful bits for the paper. (Possibly). But with the amount there was and with the brilliance of his writing, I reckon there's a lifetime work there to really study him properly. I'll have to make do with a morning sadly.

The other interesting part of the morning was in using Writely (now Google Docs and Spreadsheets) to collaborate on writing the paper. My co-author was online at the same time. It's still in Beta so occasionally I'd get chucked out, but we never lost any text to my knowledge and it seems to work quite niftily. We could revise the document itself whilst at the same time carrying on what was virtually an online chat session down at the bottom of the document as we discussed what we wanted to do or how we wanted to do it. Best yet: it doesn't require the installation of any software so I can do it even on a machine here!