Month: October 2007

  • Pumpkin Dissection

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    pumpkin_anatomylab_svw_033, originally uploaded by samwebster. We thought we’d prepare our own mini Halloween pumpkin this year. In the lab.

  • Halloweeny

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    My Mac got Halloweenified. There’s a screaming skull too, which hides behind a black screen when the screensaver comes on and jumps out when it hears someone nearby. (15″ MacBook Pro plus 23″ Apple monitor)

  • Blooper reel

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    I’ve been finishing up an anatomy elearning project that I will be making available over the next couple of weeks. To give you a taste, here are a couple of bloopers from some of the filming… (Click for video.)

  • UK iPhone

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    It looks as though Apple still have quite a bit of work to do in marketing the iPhone to early tech adopters in the UK. We’re used to getting our fancy phones for free with new contracts here, and the mobile phone companies know this. They keep us hooked into their network and poach users…

  • Morgan!

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    Jo and Morgan popped in today to say hi. Morgan is 12 weeks old now. I wonder if he’s started to think about his letter to Father Christmas yet.

  • Autumnal evenings on the beach

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    We were mucking about on the beach last night. It’s great when the evenings start drawing in for this kind of stuff (click for larger). More on Flickr (particularly if you’re in my friends and family group).

  • Rugby

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    How close was the England – South Africa game on Saturday night? OK, the scoreboard might say 15-6, but the game was lost by inches (I’m talking about the near-try at the start of the second half of course). The South African’s defense was solid and their lineouts were awesome, however. They played superbly, with…

  • Baking

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    Kim has been baking again. This time she baked and iced a Cinderella cake for a friend of a friend’s 3-year-old daughter’s birthday party.

  • Saturday mornings

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    This is what Saturday mornings are for. Spreading lego around the house, watching cartoons and drinking chocolate milk. Clonetrooper thinks he’s found a 42″ TV.

  • Swearing at work can ‘cut stress’

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    Fuck yeah! The BBC reports that swearing at work can “cut stress”, a topic close to the heart of every salmon. “Swearing at work helps employees cope with stress, academics at a Norfolk university have said. “A study by Norwich’s University of East Anglia (UEA) into leadership styles found the use of “taboo language” boosted…