28 February 2014
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Approaching the end of the afternoon at work earlier this week I was reviewing my collection of pending tasks, looking for something relatively minor but hopefully straightforward. We have a departmental directory with people, photos and contact details and the … Continue reading
27 February 2014
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England doesn’t feel as wet as it did a few weeks ago. We have had several outbreaks of what I believe is called sunshine and both old rivers and new lakes (the latter formerly known as roads, fields and allotments) … Continue reading
26 February 2014
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Last night’s meet up with other colleagues working in healthcare research programming roles was only a qualified success as, for various reasons, it ended up just being me sat in The Butcher’s Arms. I did however have a useful session … Continue reading
25 February 2014
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Mining the Social Web (2nd Edition) by Matthew A Russell is a book for a relatively small niche. Most users of the social web (Twitter, Facebook, etc) won’t have the programming expertise to follow the technical details and most programmers … Continue reading
23 February 2014
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We had a work party after church and I took the opportunity to do some follow up on the ladybirds project. I’ve swept the first floor room in the bell tower and removed the accumulated collection of dead insects, which … Continue reading
22 February 2014
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Before I forget my first impressions, I ought to post notes on how a couple of my recent brews have turned out. First there is the Nottcider experiment, where I pasteurised the results of my slow apple juice extraction and … Continue reading
21 February 2014
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I was interested in this TED video – my colleagues work in similar fields: For me, one of the most fascinating discoveries (not in this talk but from some of the open seminars at work) is that, even without adding … Continue reading
20 February 2014
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Below is the only bit of the Winter Olympics I have carefully watched: … who can resist the mellifluous tones of Sir David Attenborough commenting on this most fascinating of species?
19 February 2014
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This week I took my first dip into Polish crime fiction with Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski. In this country it seems that there is a different division of labour to the British and Nordic jurisdictions where most of my … Continue reading
18 February 2014
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Not me but my Bass Pod XT unit, which I would formerly have described as trusty. For a year or so it had a missing line of pixels on the display and then, at a rehearsal last week, it started … Continue reading