Month: January 2004

  • The Spark

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    Oh man. That sucks. I used to visit thespark.com ages ago, for genius content like the “date my sister project”. Back then it was full of novel pseudoscience stuff, and was a fun site with minimal advertising. I checked it today and it’s pretty much full of the same old stuff, but it throws tons…

  • Travelling

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    My Mum is visiting us in Cardiff today, my brother is driving to Turin, delivering shoes back to Cheltenham, and my sister is somewhere in Southern Australia. Everybody’s travelling! I had my second weights session of the gym this year tonight. It felt much better than last week’s, thank God. And Mum and Kim cooked…

  • Microscopes

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    Wow! It gets more and more interesting! Today I spent most of the afternoon moving several of our microscopes into a new room. Exciting, eh?

  • Kim and Jack Climbing

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    We all went climbing at the Welsh International Climbing Centre today. Although I’m still a regular(ish), Kim doesn’t climb much since becoming pregnant with Jack. I’m trying to climb every Sunday and hoping to drag Kim and Jack out too. It’s hard work with the boy though, because he wants to crawl off and explore,…

  • Jack’s first steps

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    Jack has been taking his first few steps! See this video from last night.

  • BIOSI2

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    A pic of the building in which I work at Cardiff University. The 60’s concrete block internally known as BIOSI2.

  • Gene Park

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    Part 3 of the tour: a bunch of thermal cyclers (including a qPCR cycler) in the BIOSI Gene Park. I know. Dullsville. I’m just enhancing my geek status.

  • Webserver fixed

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    Freaky. It was the Network Associates (Mcafee) virus scanner that I installed to the webserver that was causing the problems with the webserver. I removed it and all seems well again. Wierd.

  • My Bench

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    Continuing the tour of my workplace, here’s my lab bench. Exciting, eh? A very productive area. Mostly. Sometimes.

  • Downtime

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    Sorry about the downtime. My cable modem hung and screwed up the DHCP renew timings for it and the router. I’ve reset both, so hopefully that’s fixed now.