“Munaf bowling at a pace of 126.1 kmph? Is it a joke? Why does it happen that every one who plays for India gets his pace dropped?

“Equity, worth and time working are all mixed up if you are a founder.

“For the typologist, the type (eidos) is real and the variation an illusion, while for the populationist the type (average) is an abstraction and only the variation is real.

“Reasons to invest in social features for your website:
* Amplify customer opinion, more customer trust
* More data
* Cheaper support; issues are public

“In a rapidly growing market, you don’t worry too much about efficiency. It’s more important to grow fast. If there’s some mundane problem getting in your way, and there’s a simple solution that’s somewhat expensive, just take it and get on with more important things. Unions were just Razorfish in the mid twentieth century.

“Lots of us [academics], pushed to show ‘productivity’, don’t work on issues we regard as worthwhile and publish the results to advance work in the field – we pick fields in which it will be easy to publish and select issues to work on in the interest of ‘getting publications’. Even ass-backwarder, instead of being valued because they make scholarly work more readily available, journals are valued because the print medium restricts the amount of work that can be made publicly available, so that a publication ‘counts’.

“..genres of novels appear together in clusters [in time], separated by about 25 years, and disappear together too.

“There is a weird emphasis here on names, writing, and, near the climax, the autonomous power of language itself; this tempts me to postulate some kind of run-in with post-structuralism in Sagara’s past (not a happy one, given her heroine’s attitude towards teachers), but really anyone who comes to this looking for specifically Derridean high fantasy would be disappointed. (Not that I can think of anyone who would, now that Chun the Unavoidable is no longer among us.)

“She won’t be that much of a dick.