On what’s in a name?

You may have heard that in the high definition DVD format ”war”, Blu-ray has emerged victorious over its rival HD DVD format. In fact, HD DVD is in its death throes. Anyone left holding a HD DVD player is trying to offload them on to ebay.
The popularity of Blu-ray discs over HD DVD in Australia (and elsewhere) is [...]

On writing abstracts

One of the illuminating insights I came across during the summer break was in relation to abstracts. Now abstracts are common in the professional journal literature as a summary of the full text article, a skill in itself with definite requirements. Abstracts are also written to collate information about articles in particular subjects for subscription-based (often online) bibliographic services. [...]