More on my eye

Things seem to be going well. I have another week off and then will return to the project. I have to have another operation sometime after three months; this will depend on how well the retina has adhered. Im feeling a lot better.

My eye

I have had to go into hospital (the fantastic Radcliffe in Oxford) for an operation to put back my retina, part of which had been detached. This means no work for a fortnight. I will need a second op in December. I am hoping to catch up lost time in October when I shall be home on a sabbatical. Feeling very frustrated with an eye that feels it has been punched.

Progress Aug25

As many of you will know I have an eye problem and have had to stop for at least a fortnight. I have reached chunk 37 and, so far, the quality has been excellent. I have had very little editing to do. There will now be a hiatus but I will let you know when I return.

I'm back

I have just returned from Malta and started editing again. Have reached chunk 25. Hope to get to 40ish by the end of the month. Do have a good holiday.

Progress 17th June

I have reached Chunk 20 in the editing. I hope to complete the first full edit by the end of August and then carry out a structuring exercise which would involve adding some glue text to cover the interfaces between the chunks.

It was an excellent event on Monday. Ira has offered to write a preface; something I have taken up with alacrity.

If any of you want to be put on the reserve list for chunks that were not delivered please email me.

Webcast Details

The webcast page for the 15th June event is here. It automatically refreshes itself, adding the Live links when the event goes live. You will need QuickTime 7 or later to view the webcast.

Progress 6th June

So far I have edited 13 texts. All are excellent. The main problems (all small) are:

• Punctuation
• Sometimes an over laid-back style
• Two small assumptions about what students have learned in previous chunks were not correct.
• Figure referencing needed fixing up.
  

I estimate that I have changed 3% of a chunk on average. I had hoped to get to 15 by tomorrow but family illness intervened. Hope to get to 18 by 13th June. The bulk of the editing will occur in July/August

I may need to look at structure once I have done the first twenty. However, I will not be touching the texts that were delivered and edited, they are uniformly good.