Long time, no type. Eh, such is life in the big city. Now, on with the post, such as it is. Just some odds and ends.

• I recently participated in the 2007 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference in Kansas City, MO. Jennifer Phegley and I presented on our Household Words project, and I even made mention of this site. If you're visiting now because of the conference, welcome - thanks for stopping by! I provided tech support for the conference, so I didn't get to attend many of the sessions. What I did see was really quite interesting. I read several of the papers, so I did get some exposure to much of the content. Also, the food was fabulous.
• Charles Dickens is getting some more exposure as of late, thanks to the recent announcement of the upcoming opening of Dickens World, a Charles Dickens-inspired theme park designed to bring a back a bit of Victorian England. According to a Boston Globe article, guests will have the opportunity to "see the Ghost of Christmas Past in Ebeneezer Scrooge's haunted house, be hectored by a schoolmaster at Dotheboys Hall -- the dismal school from "Nicholas Nickleby" -- and peer into the fetid cells of Newgate Prison." No word on whether women will be able to purchase their own consessions (own property) or if children will be employed to operate the roller coaster.