Author Archives: rpg

I was interviewed before flying out to London for Sciblog ’08, and there’s now a News piece at the USyd website. (It’s actually been up there a few days now, but it was hidden in the ‘”Science”:http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/science/396.html’ section. Still not … Continue reading →

Ten short days ago I walked past the other side of this partition out into a rather pale but hopeful dawn. Now the sun has set on the other side of Terminal Three, and I’m wondering if I have enough … Continue reading →

Why ‘”Oyster Card”:https://oyster.tfl.gov.uk/oyster/entry.do’? Do we get champagne? And why did everyone giggle when the Tube driver told us we were running ‘a few seconds’ early?

Live from the Chemistry Boardroom at the University of Southampton Cameron Neylon, Jim Procter and lunch where we’re talking about tools, policy and stealing your data. I find myself sitting next to the estimable Dr Rohn, but she’s too busy … Continue reading →

well, sorta. SciBlog08.m4a. No idea how good it is, I’ve just thrown it onto the web.

Updates are at http://friendfeed.com/rooms/science-blogging-2008. Great stuff. Gee is a wimp.

Fantastic. In between the main and dessert at the Betjeman Arms Hello Maxine! I discover that I can slurp St Pancras’ wifi net workand liveblog the blogger’s dinner. Your task is to guess who said, “A thousand words between Norwich … Continue reading →

We made an interesting observation last night at chez Rohn. Turned out that there was a small gender-based preference for corkscrew usage Some preferred the ‘Hallelujah’-type corkscrew: and others the wine-knife type: We’re still at the stage of data collection, … Continue reading →

Hang on, so this is … Wednesday night. Right? Right. Tomorrow is already happening in Sydney, but it’s dark and I’m tired so I guess that means I’m in the right time zone. Tomorrow, which here must be Thursday, I … Continue reading →

Today I’m flying (on the Airbus! Woo hoo!) so that I can attend the SciBlog (which sounds like something from Star Trek to me). I’m also going to the Open Science workshop on 1st September in Southampton, and will be … Continue reading →