Month: December 2005

  • Old Year

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    The New Year is about to kick off. I feel strangely ambivalent about it. There’s nothing I plan to do in particular next year, there are no great goals I intend to accomplish or work towards, and there’s nowt in particular that I look forward to. I’ve been a grumpy bugger this Christmas, and it…

  • Drums

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    With friends that buy your kids drum kits, who needs enemies?

  • Some Recent Photos

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    A building in Park Place, Cardiff, in the run up to Christmas.

  • Some Recent Photos

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  • Some Recent Photos

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    My view each morning, as I reach the bay at the end of the Clyne Valley cycle path.

  • In reverse

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    Well this is different. I’m on the train at Swansea, but I’m not sweaty & I don’t have my bike. It feels strange. I’m travelling to Cardiff for the day to meet up with the guys from the old lab for food & a few beers. Let’s hope I get the right train home &…

  • Party

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    Now that I’m on broadband at home, I can post these photos of Jack from the weekend. He’s at his mate Antoine’s 3rd birthday party. It was general fancy dress, but most of them went as fairies and coppers, so it looked like a midget’s hen night in Edinburgh.

  • Cooling

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    I finally got round to replacing the cracked water cooling unit on my graphics card. The nice guys at Asetek just sent me out a new one FOC, after I emailed them a photo of the cracks. Look at the state of the tubes I took out – these are supposed to be clear. The…

  • Readers take snapshot of history

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    OK, so here’s another link today: a BBC news article reporting on the way in which digital images are easily captured and passed around the globe, and how this is affecting modern media. Many people took striking photos of the huge fire at the Buncefield fuel depot and shared them freely, in a case of…

  • The body snatchers’ legacy to medicine

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    “The body snatchers’ legacy to medicine” is a BBC article looking at anatomy in the 18th Century, specifically body snatching and the advances anatomical studies gave to medicine at the time.