Month: May 2004

  • Spill

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    Jack! Oh for fuck’s sake boy! Yes, he pulled a tin of wood stain from a shelf in B&Q and it exploded on the floor.

  • Leaving Ghent

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    A final afternoon in Ghent. On the train to Brussels airport. Our BMI plane. Now THIS is a bag. It’s a padded laptop bag by Crumpler, from some looney Ozies. This particular bag is the Very Busy Man. I carried everything I needed for 4 days in Ghent in this bag, some of it delicate…

  • ICRS day 3

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    Oh man, you’ll never believe this. The work I had submitted to the ICRS meeting was shortlisted for the Award for Excellence in Cartilage Research (or some such title). I was sitting through the awards ceremony, waiting to finish and go back to the hotel, and up came a slide with the 5 contenders for…

  • Beers last night

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    I went out with Charlie and the gang last night for a few beers and some food. As ever on a night out with Charlie (particularly at a conference) it was a very funny evening. Bags of fun and loads of laughs.

  • ICRS day 2

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    PCs in the conference centre. Tony! Belgian cafe… with Belgian waffles! (And great coffee). Apple shop. Graffiti. One of the rivers in the evening.

  • ICRS day 1

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    My talk went very well. Piece of cake! Kirsty and Jack! Sam’s Belgian tea shop. More talks.

  • Gent, Belgium

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    We travelled to Gent today, by car, by plane and by train. Nice place, crap hotel. Conference starts tomorrow, and it looks like a busy 2 and a half days.

  • Charlie’s Angels

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    I had a meeting at Cardiff University today so I popped in to see the girls I used to work with and to get them to check out my talk.

  • ICRS 2004

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    I’ve almost kind of finished writing my talk for the ICRS meeting this week. Well, I’ve put the slides together. Do you want to see my presentation?

  • ICRS 2004

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    This is the conference that I will be speaking at on Thursday: http://www.icrs2004.org/ I will be in Belgium from Wednesday to Sunday, with Kim and Jack.