Month: June 2008

  • Sleeping through

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    Annabel has slept through the night a couple of times recently. She’s loving solid (read: mushed) food, although nothing too carroty. This seems to be helping keep her full now that she’s getting bigger, and she slept from about 9pm to 7.30am the other night. Fantastic! She’s over 6 months old, and it looks like…

  • Get ready!

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    Steve Jobs is about to start talking in San Francisco. What’s coming?

  • This morning

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    Summer’s back for a couple of days. This was my view cycling to work this morning.

  • Beach babes

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  • Reading

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    Disparate coffee table reading in our house.

  • iTunes Films in the UK

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    You can now rent and buy films through iTunes in the UK! I’ve been waiting for this for ages, but I’m a little suprised that Apple managed to organise it already. I was expecting an Autumn release. We never rent films from local DVD shops any more, and switched to the Amazon model of online/by…

  • Video podcast

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    Rhi and I are adding video podcasts to the embryology stream on iTunes. They’re teaching core bits of anatomy, instead of embryology, and we start off going over some of the anatomical triangles of the neck in paint. They’re in .m4v format at the moment (MPEG4). I haven’t decided how to put them on this…

  • The future of prosthetics?

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    Take a look at Dean Kamen’s new prosthetic arm he and his team have invented. It’s a robot arm that replicates the movements allowed by the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, and is controlled via the user’s muscles elsewhere in the body. Guess why it was nicknamed “Luke”. Wired article.