Holiday
Trading Places
Abseil?
Puddles
Fat Man Walking
Bedtime
New Camera (not mine)
Live or later
Welsh Windows
August 2005 Archives
August 28, 2005
August 18, 2005
August 17, 2005
Trading Places
With the internet, the roles of parents & children become reversed, & I don't mean in the way you're probably thinking of. Offspring have to protect their parents.
We have to warn our mums & dads not to reply to emails from strangers (particularly from Nigerians promising cash), not to click on pop-ups (no, you haven't really won ｣10,000,000 because you were the 500,000th visitor), and to make sure their virus protection is always up to date. We warn them to be careful out there on the internet, to wrap up warm, and not to talk to strangers. We want them to have a good time, but we worry a little bit.
So already roles begin to reverse, and I guess this shifts further as we all get older. Wierd.
August 16, 2005
August 15, 2005
August 13, 2005
Fat Man Walking
There's a fella in California who, over recent years has been getting fatter and fatter. He wasn't always like this, but he's got older, he has a family, and life changes. He doesn't like being fat. So he has decided to get rid of it. How? He's gone walking, from San Diego to New York City. That's a long way, and a hell of a lot of calories.
Good lad. Read his story: link.
August 11, 2005
Welsh Windows
Did you know you can get Welsh Language versions of Windows XP and Microsoft Office? Download the language packs:
Link.
August 8, 2005
Summer Silence
It's so quiet.
It's August, and most of the Medicine academics (certainly the lecturers in my wing of the school) have gone away on holiday. The students are on their summer break, and the research labs are quiet, with the occasional confused PhD student. I've got another couple of weeks before I go away, and still have a couple of deadlines to hit and things to prepare for the start of teaching next semester. Research is progressing, and I have a post-doc starting research in my group in September. I'm not as busy as I have been, but I'm kept occupied. But it's weird to work when it's so quiet.
Brum
While Jack seems to have absolutely no sense of direction (like his mother), he knows where all his favourite rides are in Cardiff city centre, and drags you into the shop when he recognises the logo.
I can work on his sense of direction as he gets older, right? Or maybe he'll be a member of the GPS age, & won't have to worry about that sort of thing.
August 4, 2005
Radio 1 Podcast
Blimey, Moyles' Breakfast Show from BBC Radio 1 is now a podcast (or at least, selections of it are). He's sitting pretty at the top of the iTunes Top Podcasts list already. This means I can listen to Moyles on the train to work in the morning on my iPod, without a radio. Sweet.
Tracking a mobile phone
Do you want to know how/if police and phone networks can track mobile phones? The BBC wrote a bit about its use in catching a London train bomber.
Link.
August 3, 2005
Cycling at 40mph
I was late leaving work for the train today. Luckily, on the main road out of the uni I let a coach pull out in front of me & jumped into its slipstream. I haven't done this for ages (don't try it at home kids) & only do it on roads I know really well. You don't want a pot hole to appear from under the coach at 40mph because you'll make a mess. I pretty much sit in the middle of the lane, staring at the brake lights, staying as far back as possible without getting into the turbulent air, spinning 52x12. Fun!
I kept up the speed almost the whole way & got to the station 5 minutes earlier than usual :)
One problem: it's sunny again so I'm the smelly bloke on the train. Oh wait. There's a guy with a couple of dogs on this carriage & one of them just let rip. Eurgh - that stinks. I get a reprieve.
August 1, 2005
Phil's Biog
Haha - I just found Phil's biog: www.medicine.swan.ac.uk/bio-philip.maull.html. Planet of the Apes or what?
