TO PROBE THE MIND (October 13, 2003)

Several of my friends stumbled upon a brief mention of my Residua web site in the Estates Gazette (London) of September 27, 2003. In today’s post I received a copy of the relevant page from Rachael Luck, who spotted it first. Under the Webwatch rubric, there are two short articles by a certain Adam Tinworth. The first, entitled “Joe Blog’s Vehicle for His Opinions,” reviews a number of weblogs or “blogs” that regularly publish information about real estate, architecture, planning, infrastructure development, and the built environment in general. The second, entitled “Academic Offers Art and Property,” introduces my website. “Although not technically a blog,” Tinworth begins, “this site is an excellent example of a website used to further personal views.” Having introduced me as a retired professor of construction management and economics, he continues: “Bon conceives of the site as an ongoing artwork, as much as a platform for personal opinions.” But the last sentence grabbed my heart: “The archive stretches all the way back to the mid-1970s, and so provides an unparalleled opportunity to probe the mind of an offbeat property academic.” Lovely, this. With the exception of the penultimate word, of course. Strictly speaking, the word “property” is superfluous both in the last sentence and the title of the article.