A note on my posting

Some people may have noticed that my posts are appearing at odd times, or have slightly different formatting. The reason for this is that I am currently in China, where I am spending some time teaching at Huanggang Normal University and Xuzhou Institute of Technology. When I've finished teaching, I will take some time off before attending the WCCI 2014 conference in Beijing, where I'm chairing a special session.

While everyone here is very friendly and go out of their way to be helpful, there is one thing I dislike about China: the internet censorship. This means that I can't access Blogger directly to post or check updates before they post, so I have to do it via email. So, I sometimes make mistakes with the formatting, and I can't schedule updates to go live at certain times like I usually do.

I'm also updating Twitter via email, which is a bit easier to do, so you can follow me there if you aren't already. Please bear with me, I will be back in New Zealand mid-July and posts will return to their more usual schedule.