My email, too. It’s now nick-at-motespacedotcom. Hosting everything myself, away from university hardware. The old email addresses I had will remain indefinitely, but I’m phasing them out. I suppose it’s good to change things up, but I’m going to miss fairuz, my old server that was sitting on a fat pipe out where ARPANET was birthed and, coincidentally, a couple floors below ICANN.

I suppose this is all a roundabout way of saying that my academic life is unfortunately on a bit of hiatus right now. I’m taking a one- or two-year leave of absence from USC, and am working for Google in the interim. When I come back, I’ll likely be transitioning away from Computer Aided Language Learning (that half-written thesis will be good for kindling next time I go camping, perhaps), and into the Ontology depths of Natural Language Processing.