Month: September 2007

  • Warm Sea Splashing

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    Just the other week the sea was so warm we were playing in it and hoping for a late summer, but already the weather has turned autumnal. The central heating has gone back on and I’m carrying gloves and a hat in my cycling bag to work, just in case.

  • iPhone in the UK

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    The iPhone will be available in the UK from November 9th, at £269 for the 8GB handset and £35/month for the talk plan and unlimited data tariff from O2. It’s using outdated technology by European mobile phone standards, as it uses slow EDGE rather than fast 3G for data, and doesn’t do MMS photo messaging.…

  • Clinical skills videos

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    The embryology podcasts have been well received, and we’re working to add to those, to improve them, and to glitz them up a bit. How would you like to see clinical skills demonstration videos in a podcast format on your iPod (or other popular mp4 player)? The videos are already available on Blackboard to Swansea…

  • How older siblings stunt growth

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    A study is suggesting that having an older brother can stunt the growth of younger siblings. My younger brother’s about a foot taller than me, so it wouldn’t seem to apply to my family. Researchers suggest the trends they observe might be due to uterine factors in second pregnancies, or dilution of time, money or…

  • Cravings

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    Kim is 21 weeks pregnant. Kim has a very interesting craving this time. She has a craving for cakes, and whenever she goes out to buy food she comes back with cakes. Whenever she’s left alone in the kitchen for too long on her own, she bakes cakes. The cakes that appear are always more…

  • Vaccines

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    I’m visiting Banjul, in The Gambia at the end of this month to aid the development of the link between the medical school there and the school here in Swansea. I’ll have my elearning and IT hat on for most of the week, with some anatomy teaching and much meeting and greeting of Gambian colleagues…

  • EPST 2007

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    Today Cardiff Tri held the second Emily Prosser Sprint Triathlon. I took some snaps for the website during the race. I guess these were my favourite, mostly because they’re a little bit different from all the others (I took around 600-700 photos). Click for larger versions.

  • Baby no.2’s first photo

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    Here’s the first photo of Baby No. 2. I expect there will be several thousand more (photos, not babies) after he or she is born in January. Jack really enjoyed the ultrasound scan, with lots of things he could easily recognise at 20 weeks. He’s really looking forward to having a little brother or sister,…

  • New students

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    This week a new batch of 72ish students start the Swansea Graduate Entry Medicine programme. It’s a nice easy induction week, followed by 3 weeks of introductory teaching and then 12 weeks of hard, hard work (for both students and staff). Good luck to you all, and I hope you’ll enjoy the course and the…

  • Names

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    Kim’s fussing over possible boy’s names for the baby due to be born in January (if it’s a boy – we already have a girl’s name planned). Her current favourite is “Ace Max Webster”. Hell, at least his CV will stand out.