Category: Daily

  • Click click

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    I’ve almost got my home theatre PC back up & running after some major problems developed in the last week. Like it wouldn’t start up. And it wouldn’t play any media files. Which would be important for a multimedia PC. So without going into details, lets just say I spent much time repairing XP &…

  • Cheltenham Town vs Newcastle United

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    It’s probably the most famous game Cheltenham Town will ever play, round 4 of the 2005-6 FA Cup against giants Newcastle United. It’s great to read on the BBC Sport page, “Souness wary of Cheltenham”, but not quite as nice to be regarded as “a potential banana skin”. But hey, it’s true. It should be…

  • Coff

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    Today, I ha’ bin mostly coffin’ up phlegm. Hack hack. Note the time elapsed between Jack’s birthday party and family illness (Kim’s the same).

  • Timing

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    Today I have to do a very easy thing, but it has to be done well. The Head of Department has asked me to give a 5 minute tour of the Anatomy department to some visiting bigwigs – some people who are important to us and our funding. Easy peasy. No problem. Except that I…

  • Frozen

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    It was so cold this morning that my beard froze cycling to work. By the end of the Clyne Valley path the rear mech on my bike had frozen too, so I couldn’t change gear until I gave it a bang. The sun was very welcome when I reached the bay – a beautiful morning.…

  • Blogging Away

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    One of the nicest things about this blog (and admittedly one of its aims) is how friends and family from around the world follow what I’m up to, particularly when I’m traveling. When I got back from the US this week, almost everyone I spoke to knew what I’d been up to and where I…

  • Found

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    Yes, the PhD student turned up. But his luggage didn’t. Oops. His plane got delayed at LAX so he missed our planned flight. He only got back to Swansea about an hour later than me though. Still no sign of his stuff.

  • Lost a PhD student

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    I’ve landed back in the UK, but without Gareth. He was supposed to meet me at JFK, but didn’t make the flight. British Airways won’t tell me if he’s on another flight, so I’m waiting at Heathrow terminal 4 arrivals & using the web to trace possible airline problems. My coach leaves in an hour.

  • Last Day in NYC

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    It’s my last day in the US and in NYC, so what am I doing? Yep, shopping. There are some cracking electronics bargains to be had, and it’s good to see that J & R are even bigger than they were before the destruction of the twin towers. J & R is a huge, multi-shop…

  • American Museum of Natural History

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    Yeah, yeah, dinosaurs. But where are the jawless fish? Where are the tetrapods? In fact, the American Museum of Natural History has a fantastic looping display on the top floor, taking you through 250 million years of vertebrate evolutionary history. As an anatomist there was plenty of detail available to keep me happy, and likewise…