In which I finally ice my Christmas Cake...
So I made a Christmas Cake in November and never got round to finishing the icing. Luckily Christmas cake is well known for it's survivability and this one has been well fed with brandy.
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,700 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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How Far Did Javert Fall?
In which I answer a question posed to me via a webpage...
This post will be in the style of What-If XKCD without the awesome diagrams and scroll-over text.
So a good friend of mine recently posed the question "How far did Javert fall?" by the medium of this webpage: http://www.mathalicious.com/lesson/the-fall-of-javert/. I clicked on the webpage expecting an entertaining answer to the question but sadly found it was actually an exercise left to the reader. I realise this is a lesson plan but humour me.
Proper Gradients for MetaPost Pulse Sequences
In which I improve upon the previous post...
In yesterday's post I talked about using MetaPost to generate Pulse Sequence Diagrams for MRI documents. I have been using this to make nice diagrams for my Thesis. There is one problem, however, with the pulse sequence file provided on Mark's website - it generates square gradients.
Pulse Sequence Diagrams Using Metapost
In which I use MetaPost to generate publication quality pulse sequence diagrams...
Pulse sequences are the series of radio-frequency pulses required to generate an MR image. If you are an MR Physicist you will see these a lot and probably wondered how can I generate nice pulse sequences for my thesis, papers etc. Well handily using MetaPost and these files you can!
Movember Ends!
Osmanthus Green: Thesis, YouTube, Update!
In which I review some floral green tea and update you on my life...
Thesis Writing
So thesis writing is fully under-way now and my supervisors assure me that writing will get harder and longer as it continues - fun, fun, fun!
It takes me a while to get into writing but I expect I'll make a video about Thesis writing soon. I actually quite enjoy writing though so I hope I'll be able to keep the pace up and stay on schedule :)
Christmas Cake - The Cake!
In which I bake the cake...
So in order to bring you yet another Christmas recipe I have broken with tradition and made my Christmas cake before stir-up Sunday. Here it is!
Word 2010: How to Insert Numbered Equations Properly
In which I run through a useful tip that Microsoft managed to just miss explaining...
The Problem
If you, like me, are in the process of writing a long scientific document which requires multiple reviewers to be able to view changes you may sadly be saddled with using Microsoft Word.* Now, in defence of Microsoft, they have definitely improved the way Word works. Using track changes, Mendeley and with a little bit of tinkering you can have a passable writing experience and be able to send documents out for review by your supervisors. They've even included an equation editor that allows you to put equations in your document and save them for later use.
Sadly in formal scientific writing we often like things to look nice, pretty and numbered like this...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Extended Edition | Review
Project 007: Bond, James Bond
Project 006: It's the Final Clue-now!
Project 004: Troisième Indice
Lost A Pint Of Blood? Replace It With Tea!
In which I discuss the safest way to lose blood and it's proper replacement...
Blood Donation
So I want to take a break today from PhD based ramblings to talk about giving blood. Did you know that 96% of people rely on the other 4% for blood donations? [1] Maybe you've not thought about it before or are a little worried about what it entails so I'll tell you now that it mostly involves biscuits, drinking and sitting down. Easy eh?
Project 003: Second Clue
10,000 Views!
In which I celebrate...
Look what greeted me today:
Thank you everyone for reading my ramblings, costume ideas, recipes, geeky computer ideas, airsoft tales, reviews and tea posts! Everyone knows that people who read my blog are the best kinds of people!
Thank you all!
Tom Out!
Project 002: First Clue
In which I start teasing my Halloween costume...
So here's the deal:
- 4 clues in the run-up to Halloween 2013.
- Each a cropped picture that is readily Google-able.
- You need to find the original picture.
- And use that to try and work out what costume I'm going for.
- Answers on a postcard to tom@tinkertailorsoldiersponge.com
- Comments will be disabled on these posts - no giving away the answers!
Breaking up with BT
In which BT fails to deliver, just like OP...
Dear BT,
It appears you didn't take the sentiments of my previous letter to heart. I'm afraid that is going to be detrimental to our ongoing relationship. In fact I'm afraid I have some bad news for you - we're going to have to part ways.
How-to: EXERCISE!
Dear B.T.
In which I moan about BT...
Dear British Telecom (BT),
Last year I had the pleasure of enjoying BT Infinity. In a student house of five I don't recall ever experiencing slow internet or any outages. Naturally when I moved to a new house I was more than happy to start a contract with you. I was even looking forward to having a landline for the first time.