Blog 1: Enter stage left, a short professor with a big nose
Well here I go ---- Ich bin ein Blogger. In a simple sequence of keystrokes I join the set of people who blog, I join with that shadowy brotherhood and sisterhood typing feverishly in and into cyberspace. I hope to high heaven this is not some dreadful mistake. Perhaps I should set out my stall? My name is Marek Ziebart and I'm a professor (of Space Geodesy - let's address that particular subject later) at University College London (UCL), England. It is a great place to work. In some respects being there is like sitting on a bench on the concourse of a busy railway station, like London's Waterloo or Kings Cross/St Pancras. There is a constant flicker of people passing through, flooding onto trains that carry them away into the landscape. Some people arrive flustered, some calm and collected. Some are weighed down with luggage, some are travelling light. Some of them have lost their hats. Some look hopefully at the arrivals board, some look tired and far from home. Some gr