Category: Daily

As usual, on the day of the bombs in London, the bloggers were pretty much ahead of the rest of the news networks, and providing localised information from personal perspectives. Read the link. A survivor’s account, now hosted on BBC. Tough stuff.

Are you getting mail bounced back from my Swansea University address? Don’t worry, I’ve not been sacked. The Microsoft Exchange server has been down for over a week now, so email is mullered. Send it to one of my other addresses instead.

“For good looks and good health, the feminine ideal really should be an hourglass figure with well-defined hips.” “Hip fat appears to contain a beneficial natural anti-inflammatory protein hormone called adiponectin that actually prevents arteries from swelling up and becoming blocked.” “Compared to the group of women with the smallest hip circumferences, women with the…

The increased security spread at least as far as Cardiff yesterday. Kim & Jack got caught up in cancelled & delayed trains yesterday afternoon, trying to get home from the city centre. They were only delayed by about an hour. This morning everything appears to be running fine (although at least one of the high…

As soon as the news began arriving about the bomb blasts in London this morning, a bomb scare was called into Swansea University, evacuating at least 2 buildings and closing entry to the site. Are we the only University or are there others affected similarly? Nobody seems to have much information yet. By the way,…

Holy crap, my car went through the MOT no problemo. Lucky me, no £500 bill this year.

I’m marshalling for the first day of the 5 stage bike race, the Ras de Cymru tomorrow. Link.

I’m interviewing tomorrow morning, for a post-doctoral research associate (postdoc to you & me). I have a year of grant-funded work to complete, and I’m more than eager to get it done so I can publish a ton of data sat on my computers. So I get to employ someone. This has been much delayed…

Cycling to work this morning, around 9am, it was already warm & sunny. Warm to the point that on the beach was a red and rotund man, in a very small pair of black underpants, drinking a bottle of stella. (Truth be known, I wasn’t actually close enough to see the brand of green beer…