Category: Daily

  • Cold

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    I was really late into the office this morning. Even though Jack woke me up at 7am, I slowly dragged myself from slumber and realised that it was a very cold, frosty morning and then spent an age hunting for my winter cycling gear: thin fleece hat, windproof gloves, thin fleece top, weatherproof, etc. From…

  • The Pentagon Press

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    This is interesting: “The US defence department has set up a new unit to better promote its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet. “The Pentagon said the move would boost its ability to counter “inaccurate” news stories and exploit new media.” So the US military is losing the propaganda war…

  • Blood

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    Hmmm, it’s Halloween (almost) and they’re taking lots of blood at the university this week. Coincidence? So should I go swimming today or give blood?

  • Embryology podcasts

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    I’ve added the podcast for the “First 18 days of the embryo” lecture to iTunes and the medicine page. I missed it out by accident thinking I had already created it. Thanks to Eve Bridgeman for the recording. I want to include images as part of the enhanced podcasts, but I need to draw these…

  • Tarmac!

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    Holy cow! The road outside our house is actually getting covered properly! Tarmac seems to be going down today, and it is supposed to be cobbled when it’s finished. We won’t know ourselves when it’s done. At the moment I’ve practiced the method of parking next to high curbs with high drains to a fine…

  • Embryology lectures

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    It’s difficult (embryology, that is). Both teaching and learning the subject is difficult. As a subject that I am used to, albeit in a rather superficial manner in most areas, it’s not easy to know whether I’m getting the key points across or if I’m muddling the ideas. The group of students in the Swansea…

  • New sports

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    I am an awful golfer, but I’m enjoying myself. Kim often complains that I don’t try new things because I hate being crap. There may be a sprinkling of truth in there (who likes to be bad at something?) but I think my current golfing skills indexed with the number of hours I spend each…

  • Golfing family

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    This weekend I played golf with my dad and my brother. This was a new thing for me, but my dad and Nick have played many times before and this showed in their competitiveness. We had fun, even though I was crap. Dad’s course (he’s a committee member) is very nice and was in excellent…

  • Emily Prosser Triathlon photos

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    I finally uploaded my photos from last weekend’s Emily Prosser Sprint Triathlon to the Cardiff Tri gallery. I never did pick a favourite. I was too busy fighting my image cataloguing software.

  • MacBook Pro

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    New Macs definitely have a “new mac smell”. It’s different to other new computers, but gives a similar feeling as “new car smell”.