Author | Conflict Analyst | Presenter | Professor
Michael Livingston

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Fiddling with the Site

It’s unlikely to be spotted by any but the most keen observers, but I found a couple hours to fiddle with the website yesterday. Gone from the sidebar is the lengthy list of posts past (replaced by a drop-down archive).  Ditto the list of categories (also replaced by a drop-down). …

The End of the World and All That

It’s fairly common to hear somebody blathering about the End of the World these days. And by “these days” I mean, well, whenever you happen to be reading this, because one of the few constants over the past couple thousand years has been folks’ certainty — absolute certainty — that …

Spring Break Party with King Arthur

It’s Spring Break here at El Cid, which means I’m partying working in my office. Ah, the glorious life of the professor. Honestly, though, these next few days are a welcome chance to get some uninterrupted labor accomplished on several projects I have in process. Today, for instance, I was …

New Camera: Sony NEX-5

We recently spent most of the money we received for the past Hanukwanzmastide on a new camera.  We had a Panasonic digital camera that we’d quite enjoyed, but it was starting to show its age a bit.  Buttons weren’t as responsive as they’d once been, and the pictures it was taking …