Confessions of a butterfly mind

I have just spent a few days away at the bach trying to get some progress on my paper. I'm having trouble because every new article or chapter I read (to check or ground an idea) suggests five new ways to prepare the paper! I'm having to resist - after a few false starts at a total rewrite - and stick to my abstract.

Thanks and congratulations Iain, on being the first to post, well before the deadline of Friday! Stephen e-mailed me saying he intends to put his up as a PDF for ease of printing, I forgot to say to you all that the way to do this in blogger is:

1. pretend it is an image, click the image link and upload the file,
   
2. choose " Link to the image (jack_paper.pdf)"
   

It's an oddly roundabout way to do it, but there you are, that's the wonders of Internet software!

Stephen also asks for an "extension" till Tuesday (as this is a long weekend here) that should be fine, the real issue is not a date but the goal that we all read the papers in advance. And... since we are all as busy as eachother... that means getting them up soon!