The world is my beer fridge

After such a long hot summer(!) There are some benefits to the sudden snowy turn in the weather. It's now that time of year again that I don't have to worry about making room in the fridge for my next cold beer or two...3...

I just bung them in my lovely walk-in fridge (otherwise known as the garden).

In case you wondered where I went (again)

Teaching has started...lots of eager students(?)...12 hour days...melting

nuf said.

Has anyone seen a PhD around here anywhere coz I sure haven't?

In case you wondered where I went

Firstly I got sucked well and truly into the Olympics, as can be seen from my half-arsed post on the first day, and nothing after. But for the second week of it I got food poisoning and didn't eat for 2 days...then I went on holiday, thankfully - I'd thought I'd have to cancel having been in bed (mostly) for a week. So now I'm back, and it's time to start doing some serious work again. So I'll be trying to catch up on all the blogs and start posting again (and doing some serious work of course).

CB

Olympics day one

as it happened...set your alarm for 23:30 every day.

Britain tops the olympic medal table in '08

1908 that is. Yep, I even resorted to stealing the BBC's joke this time.

Anyway, don't forget the Olympic games opening tomorrow night at 7. Apparently the pollution problems are "sorted" as extraordinary efforts have been made to ensure... at best not a danger to the health of athletes. That's nice then, what about the less fit and healthy spectators? Apparently it's fog, not pollution, so that's fine then, we just might not be able to see the games?

ed. I was only six hours out...

Blogs to watch (err, read)

I just came across this blog on the BBC site which looks great. The author is trying to avoid using plastic for a month. I'm really into recycling as is Chunky - not that into it though - so I'm looking forward to following this one and seeing how it turns out.

I've also recently been introduced (shamelessly by the author himself) to this really witty, interesting and intelligent blog, so go read it if you haven't, and this is not because I was buttered up by an offer to link to my blog...OK.

More hope

It looks like there's been some success in using patients own immune system to prevent organ transplants being rejected, rather than having to suppress the immune system by using drugs. Having to suppress the immune system must be more likely to mean infections and other illnesses can get hold easier, in addition to the side effects of the drugs themselves. Early days but promising.