Don't ask me why I volunteered.  I don't know.  I'm not a runner, never have been.  But I did.  And I'm still alive.
What did I do?  Run third leg in a mixed departmental team in Teddy Hall Relays.

( good things and bad things )

I have been using MightyV for quite a while for TV listings, but it appears to have gone down.  Well, the website is down, and email is bouncing, although my RSS feed seems to be updating.   Does anyone have any suggestions of good sites?  My requirements are that it must have a grid-style view of FreeView channels that I select, preferably in ( Read more... )

Important: for the sake of pete, don't go to a WASET conference.  They suck.
Guess where I was over the weekend?

I was led to understand that I was attending the "International Conference on Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering", which would be right up my street, so I prepared a paper, found funding, and toddled off to Nice for the weekend ( Read more... )

The smoking ban has made it through! And in its most strict form!

story from BBC newsI really couldn't be happier. While I understand that some smokers feel they have to enjoy a cigarette in the pub, I feel I also have a right to go out for a drink without risking an asthma attack (even non-smoking areas are often sufficiently smoky for me to be ( Read more... )

Apologies for the lack of posts over Christmas, but I've been having fun, both at home and in Croydon, where elvum and co kindly put up with me for a week over New Year.

Anyway, I'm back in Oxford now before my course starts on Monday.  Tonight a whole group of us went out to du Liban - a very nice lebanese restaurant on Broad St.  I've been there ( Read more... )