Well today for the first time i travelled to kingston to see the place where i could well be working for the next several years. I was unable to go in to see the labs however the town itself was beautiful although there is no way we would ever be able to buy there. Am going back to the department on wednesday with my supervisor so will get to have ( Read more... )

Have finally gone ahead and dual booted my netbook with Ubuntu and windows XP. After initially breaking the install after only about 5 minutes, things are now working well and am hoping should give me some useful LINUX experience ( Read more... )

Cant give all of the details yet but it looks like i will be returning to work in london by the end of 2010.Will hopefully be able to tell people more in 10 days or so.

Well we have now booked our honeymoon for Hawaii for november. Will be out there for 2 weeks from the 4th. We are staying in two Hilton Hotels (Oahu and the big island). We are flying Virgin so should hopefully be comfortable. I always imagined my first taste of the US would be new york or washington but this should be amazing ( Read more... )

I get to hopefully play with a very nice new workstation tomorrow!! Twin 2 Ghz zenon processors 6 Gb of DDR3 RAM, 512 Mb graphics card and 3Tb of HD space. Unfortunately it isn't mine although considering the price tag (<£1,300) i am very tempted ( Read more... )

well the first paper i was working on has gone back to the editor and hopefully it will get accepted this time around. am now working on a second which like the first should have just required some tidying up but over the last week i have managed to generate so much data from the homology models that it will probably be faster to completely rewrite ( Read more... )

WEll after a rather turmultuous year things have finally started coming together. The flat is now almost completely as we want it. We are hoping to have a new oven & hobs by next week and that should be everything.
We have now booked our in italy next year as well. Now we just have to book the big party for when we get back.

Today I met the first student i will be looking after. How did i go from not being worth a place in academia in my old job, to running someone else's research in this one in

has anyone used the opensuse version of LINUX before? ors seems to be broken as no GUI is loading on startup even after input of correct password when prompted in the commandline.

I am back from a week in corfu. It was lovely and relaxing apart from the annoyance of a cancelled trip to albania because frankly the bus driver could not be bothered to pick us up. this was especially annoying as we had got up at 6 am on charlotte's birthday in order to go on this trip ( Read more... )