Year: 2006

  • So tired

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    What a great weekend. We went back to Cheltenham to see the family, and for the annual bonfire night party at mum and dad’s. Jack had a bit of an intrigue/fear thing with the fireworks, and had his hands over his ears and stayed inside the house most of the evening. With an early round…

  • Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life

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    A several million year old human endogenous retrovirus that is now part of our genome has been resuscitated (kind of – it was mostly rebuilt from intelligent guesswork). There’s a bit of worry about how such resurrections may endanger the current human race. I’m sure that’s the plot of a sci-fi or zombie film, or…

  • Cold

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    I was really late into the office this morning. Even though Jack woke me up at 7am, I slowly dragged myself from slumber and realised that it was a very cold, frosty morning and then spent an age hunting for my winter cycling gear: thin fleece hat, windproof gloves, thin fleece top, weatherproof, etc. From…

  • Halloween

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    With Phil it’s not just the time of year that causes this change of colour.

  • Skeletons everywhere

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    I haven’t got this skeleton in my office because it’s Halloween, honest. It’s because we’re starting to teach musculoskeletal anatomy next week.

  • The Pentagon Press

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    This is interesting: “The US defence department has set up a new unit to better promote its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet. “The Pentagon said the move would boost its ability to counter “inaccurate” news stories and exploit new media.” So the US military is losing the propaganda war…

  • A pic from the park

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    Jack and I were playing in the park between rain showers.

  • Testing the Xbox 360

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    Rich and Vicky came down to visit us last week. Jack and Rich went shopping to test next-gen consoles 😉

  • Halloween Party

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    Last night we went to a Halloween party. As usual, there are no photos of me. I went as either the bodysnatcher Burke or Hare (search link) with my own corpse and shovel. The corpse was made of a rubber mask and old clothes stuffed with stuff, just in case you were getting the wrong…

  • Swansea: Bomb team detonate wartime mine

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    A German wartime mine netted by a fishing boat crew off the south Wales coast has been blown up. BBC article.