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Back to the (Oblong) Future

The TED conference is coming back to Oxford this July. I doubt I’ll go – I’d rather spend the $4500 (about same in UK pounds) on a holiday with my family! And the talks will be podcast in the autumn anyway. I keep a few of the interesting TED talks in [...]

May 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Technology, The Wider Wild World | Leave a comment

Nice Nice Conference

Katya was in Nice, France for another conference – she was barely back a week from her previous conference in Woods Hole, MA, USA!
No snow there like there was in the States; however, it wasn’t really sunbathing weather either (thank goodness or I’d be jealous! – Andrew).
And where to next?  Well, more close to home [...]

January 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Family and Friends, Travel and Holidays | Leave a comment

Katya returns from a Hole in the Woods

Katya just returned today from her conference at the (best in the world) oceanography centre in Woods Hole, MA, USA.
She arrived there last Tuesday, just a day or two before another plane decided to turn into a boat in New York (the airplane’s manufacturer is renaming themself AirBoat).
The place, Katya says, is very cute (“its [...]

January 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Family and Friends, Travel and Holidays, Weather | One comment

Welcome Home From Vienna, Mummy!

Mummy arrived home this afternoon from the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna, Austria.
She picked up the kids from nursery, who were trying hard not to show how excited they were to see her.
Tosha was fast asleep on the nursery’s chair and then sauntered over to her; Tolii finished what he was doing and then [...]

April 18th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Family and Friends | Leave a comment