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May. 5th, 2005
The Book has been submitted
May. 5th, 2005 02:30 amWell, after a couple of days extra delay, the book was finally sent off to the editor by email a few minutes ago. It's also in the outgoing snail mail on CD at the office and will get sent first thing in the morning.
It's called Social Issues of the Information Age. It's currently listed on Amazon.co.uk as "Computer Ethics" but can be found under my name and my co-author's (Rachel McCrindle). Easiest way to find it is to search under Adams McCrindle in the Books area.
It's only been two years since we agreed it with the publisher and is only fifteen months behind the original schedule. But it's done at last. Well, now there's the six months of processing the publisher has to do before it comes out - it's due November 2005. Just in time for my 36th birthday in fact.Unfortunately it's too late for the first term of the 2005-6 academic year, but in time for the second semester, for those places that use semesters, and for the Spring term for those on terms.
Hmm, my spelling is pretty good this evening - that bodes well for the chapter I was finishing off earlier. The only thing LJ's spellchecker is throwing up is my co-author's name, with suggestions:
McCrindle Grendel, Crandall, Mercantile, Grandly
That's pretty far away for spelling suggestions.
Now I have a large bunch of marking waiting to be done, and a Masters Dissertation to finish. Plus a paper to get done for the 25th. Always writing to be done. Still, the EU project proposals all went in in the last couple of days as well (just got to wait for them to get refereed now). So, on the whole things are looking quite good.
It's called Social Issues of the Information Age. It's currently listed on Amazon.co.uk as "Computer Ethics" but can be found under my name and my co-author's (Rachel McCrindle). Easiest way to find it is to search under Adams McCrindle in the Books area.
It's only been two years since we agreed it with the publisher and is only fifteen months behind the original schedule. But it's done at last. Well, now there's the six months of processing the publisher has to do before it comes out - it's due November 2005. Just in time for my 36th birthday in fact.Unfortunately it's too late for the first term of the 2005-6 academic year, but in time for the second semester, for those places that use semesters, and for the Spring term for those on terms.
Hmm, my spelling is pretty good this evening - that bodes well for the chapter I was finishing off earlier. The only thing LJ's spellchecker is throwing up is my co-author's name, with suggestions:
McCrindle Grendel, Crandall, Mercantile, Grandly
That's pretty far away for spelling suggestions.
Now I have a large bunch of marking waiting to be done, and a Masters Dissertation to finish. Plus a paper to get done for the 25th. Always writing to be done. Still, the EU project proposals all went in in the last couple of days as well (just got to wait for them to get refereed now). So, on the whole things are looking quite good.
Vanity Surfing
May. 5th, 2005 02:52 amJust before heading home to bed, I decided, for the strange sort of non-reason you get at 2:30 in the morning, to do a vanity search. Quite nicely, my official home page at the University comes up Hit No. 1 when I do a google on "Andrew Adams". Another couple of hits refer to a US legislator from the eighteenth century, with biography:
"ADAMS, Andrew, jurist, born in Stratford, Connecticut, in January, 1736; died in Litchfield, 26 November, 1797. He was graduated at Yale College in 1760, admitted to the bar in Fairfield County, and practiced law for a time in Stamford, but in 1764 removed to Litchfield. He was a member of the legislature in 1776-'81, a delegate to congress in 1777-'80, and again in 1781-'82, as well as a member of the council in 1771. In 1789 he received the appointment of judge of the Supreme Court, of which he was made chief justice in 1793. He was an adroit and able lawyer and a learned judge."
Well I never.
"ADAMS, Andrew, jurist, born in Stratford, Connecticut, in January, 1736; died in Litchfield, 26 November, 1797. He was graduated at Yale College in 1760, admitted to the bar in Fairfield County, and practiced law for a time in Stamford, but in 1764 removed to Litchfield. He was a member of the legislature in 1776-'81, a delegate to congress in 1777-'80, and again in 1781-'82, as well as a member of the council in 1771. In 1789 he received the appointment of judge of the Supreme Court, of which he was made chief justice in 1793. He was an adroit and able lawyer and a learned judge."
Well I never.
