Finally getting round to posting about Stockholm (46th Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, September 2010).

( Things you see )

Happy New Year to all!

May 2010 be better than previous years.

Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it! Season's greetings and happy holidays to everyone else ^_^

I should get a more cheerful icon, though

After using variations on I Still Call Australia Home as the subject header for various Down Under-related posts, it's only fair that I post links to:

The song, as used in a very popular series of similarly-themed ads for the national carrier Qantas since 1997:

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Which combined several principles of successful advertising ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back.

One month since my last post, four years since my first one.

This LJ seems to have turned into a rant/whine zone. I will try (or, as the Australians say, "give it a go") to remedy that with a series of entries based on posting suggestions from f-list from the last anniversary.

First up, a smattering of ( RL observations )

Am currently ın İstanbul for European Congress of Endocrınology, workıng on unfamılıar keyboard wıth dıfferent letters and layout, so excuse the funny ı. Respıte from varıous happenıngs at work.
Back on 3rd May.

Even if you don't watch Watchmen (or prefer the original), the opening credits are possibly the best of any movie I've ever seen, and gain by re-watching after seeing the film. Special effects, political and pop culture references notwithstanding, it dragged a bit in the last hour. Also, a giant teleported SQUID does feature prominently, just not ( Read more... )

Finally getting round to posting pics of Paris, whittled down from several to just one dozen:

The city's most famous landmark, which, unfortunately I neither ascended nor took night photos of. Opposite it on the Champ de Mars was the Ecole Militaire, the backdrop to people strolling about, sunning themselves on the grass, eating ice cream and ( Read more... )

From squidlet, the ( Controversial Survey(TM) )