On Tuesday, I was in Cambridge for the first time in about eight months - Mathworks were running a Matlab symposium at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Department of Physics. It was free to attend and there literally was free lunch, who could possibly say no? I attended two boring and pointless talks (one of which was from Mathwork's UK Head), one ( Read more... )

I just submitted an application to the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge - they want a data-entry monkey for 8 weeks, entering meta-data on their image archive. It'll be with the "Education and Public Outreach" department; experience with Photoshop is desirable ( Read more... )

The Places I have stayed the night in 2007 meme. Via sunflowerinrain, hairyears and buzzy_bee.
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Cambridge yesderday. Met auntysarah, the_local_echo then, in the evening snigl3t and her partner, < lj user= "got better thing to do then messing about with livejournal ( Read more... )

So... yesterday I was in Cambridge again, mainly to go to Galloway and Porter's academic book sale. They really should say computer instead of academic. As always, the place was stuffed full of O'Reillys that were current edition - 1. But at two pounds each, who's complaining! Anyway, my mother's just bought a MacBook so I bought a bunch of Mac ( Read more... )

Up betimes and to setting in order of my bicycle. I did change the bearings on the back wheel. Though discover the bearing cones were pitted, which did vex me mightily as I am sure spares are going to be a swine to source ( Read more... )

Friday, I was in Cambridge and met up with snigl3t's partner in the Cambridge Blue. I suspect I got him fairly drunk (completely unintentional, BTW ( Read more... )

Another evening at the dry-ski slope. Only one bloke went home in an ambulance - he fell forward and broke both wrists. I'm glad I wear wrist guards. Tomorrow, I'm doing the tourist thing at the Duxford Air Museum with my new American office mate. A day off is probably a good idea because I think I'm losing it. I managed to put on different shoes ( Read more... )

More snowboarding at the dry-slope this evening. I'm slowly accumulating safety equipment - each time I hurt myself, I go out and buy the bit that protects that part of the body - so it's knee pads next. I wonder if there's an easier way to do this ( Read more... )