Year: 2006

  • New sticks!

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    Moving from 40 year old blades to modern cavity (or pocket) backs. Good timing too as I broke my 8 iron on Sunday with a perfectly normal swing.

  • Pics

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    A cloud. This morning. Post-school play-doh! Too much spent time at the local driving range and short course. It seems to be paying off though…

  • ITWales Slashdotted

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    Wow – ITWales got Slashdotted! ITWales is a Swansea University company: “ITWales is the industrial liaison unit of the Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea. The Department is one of the most distinguished in the UK, with a growing reputation in research both nationally and internationally.” The article is an interview with Ian…

  • Swansea Bay 10K

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    Nick and Vicky ran in the Swansea 10km run today, on probably the fastest course in the UK. Nick certainly looks like he’s going for a personal best.

  • Australopithecus afarensis in the news

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    Some of the earliest human remains have been examined and discussed in Nature. That these are the fossilised bones of a child makes this discussion even more fascinating. BBC article.

  • Freaky graffiti

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    At the Fairwater Leisure Centre skate park in Cardiff.

  • Greenbeard

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    Jack has five o’clock shadow – blue paint still on his face after several attempts to wash off.

  • Emily Prosser Triathlon photos

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    I finally uploaded my photos from last weekend’s Emily Prosser Sprint Triathlon to the Cardiff Tri gallery. I never did pick a favourite. I was too busy fighting my image cataloguing software.

  • MacBook Pro

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    New Macs definitely have a “new mac smell”. It’s different to other new computers, but gives a similar feeling as “new car smell”.

  • Podcasts of University Lectures?

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    This Ask SlashDot entry is an interesting and important discussion, not so much about the benefits of providing traditional lectures in alternate formats, but more about the importance (or lack of) in attending lectures. The majority of the viewpoints (assumably from current or recent students) suggest that the most important thing at university is that…