A place-holder |
Until I assemble the right combination of time, thoughts and so on and so fifth to come up with anything more meaningful.Stuff continues: enough said. Finding out what I can do and what I no longer ca...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:41:00 GMT |
Goosey goosey Goosander |
Which is what there was fishing down in the harbour yesterday when I was working on the boat (along with a couple of Cormorants and an Otter - and I believe a Seal further down the harbour: didn't see...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT |
Conference went well |
lot of good discussion, lots of good science talked about and a lot more in planning. Success! Also a good load of out-of-meeting talk, some of it science, some not.Good stuff.And now I'm very tired i...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 12:42:00 GMT |
1st day of that meeting |
or conference, or workshop - call it what you will! - went well. Going to be good 'un, I think - looks like we'll get some good discussion and some good thoughts on where (and how) WE TAKE THE SCIENC...
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 12:16:00 GMT |
Back again, sort of |
Been busy, hence lack of updates.Two weeks ago I was at the big UK/European Week of Astronomy and Space Science meeting down in Hertfordshire, which was very good (excellent session on the current so...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 03:02:00 GMT |
Pretty cool stuff (well, I think so) |
I'd heard about this stuff a while back (January, I think, when I was down at Rutherford Labs talking to the STEREO guys and guyesses), but it's nice to see it's all going ahead. Essentially, the idea...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:48:00 GMT |
Amazon |
I have been known to use Amazon in the past, mainly to lay hold of books in the gap between what-I-can-get-around-here and AbeBooks. In light of the story that's just floated to the surface, I suspect...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:38:00 GMT |
The Sun's not doing a lot |
Well, it's been out here today, but that's about all it's doing. Right now we would normally expect to be in the rising phase of the 11-year solar cycle. We're not. I mean, does this look like rising ...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:51:00 GMT |
That rolling grant |
has now been submitted. Now we wait (and don't look at the document for a while, because if we do we'll start seeing things we'd have wanted to change, but missed).It's a good case, I think: best we'v...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:39:00 GMT |
Rolling Grant Death March Mode |
.. which sounds just like the title of a Jackie Leven song.We're in the final stages of getting the three-year funding case right, so it's death march mode over the weekend). Which, needless to say, i...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:36:00 GMT |
