When I found out I was going to Jerusalem I emailed my online friend Miriam Schwab for advice about what to do and see in the area (Miriam lives in Jerusalem). She gave us heaps of advice and invited us to join her family for a traditional Jewish dinner during the Shabatt (Jewish sabbath). Miriam […]
For those of you who aren’t aware, Vicki Agyle and I have recently returned from a whirlwind tour of Hong Kong, Israel, England, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Japan. Despite everyone’s insistence that we would be blown up the moment we reached Tel Aviv, we ‘braved’ it anyway to make our way to the ICCC38 (International […]
Thanks to Dars for the photos 🙂
Dell have released a new high tech pedestrian safety device. They are calling it the “Dell Inspiron 6000”. It features a hard outer casing and a protective LCD screen to take the brunt of any impacts pedestrians may face due to vehicular collisions. I tested out this new device this morning. I placed it in […]
My blog was being over run by various softwares, themes etc. I’d written. Plus the blog format of this site didn’t lend itself too well to replying to support questions, so I’ve moved all of my web development posts over to a new site called PixoPoint Web Development. It features a forum instead of blog […]
Our 500 MHz NMR machine quenched itself today 🙁 Here is an awful quality photo I took of the aftermath. To make things worse, our other machine (300 MHz one) has been out of action since late last year, so we now have no NMR access whatsoever … for any non-chemists out there, this is […]
I’m out of action from playing sports at the moment due to my silly shoulder popping it’s self out of the socket again 🙁 But the chemistry department soccer team said they were usually short of female players so I dragged along Becky Brassett to help them out. The games are played 9 a side […]
The field hockey team I usually play for (The Soft Sticks) had no opposition at our last game. So they played a game amongst themselves while I took some piccies from the shade on the sideline – I’m still recovering from a dislocated shoulder. The temperatures were searing (26 deg. C I think) so there […]
I was/am supposed to be playing for the Soft Sticks field hockey team. Except I decided to dislocate my shoulder last week instead 😛 The opposition for the day were ‘Out 2 Score’. Unfortunately my batteries were running on empty so I couldn’t load up the LCD screen to change the ISO settings/exposures so the […]
Some photos from my parents 35th Wedding Anniversary. Thanks to Scott and Marthah for organising everything and eventually remembering to invite me 🙂 The lighting was utter crap so the photos are a bit blurry. If you don’t want your photo on this page then let me know and I’ll remove it asap.
Miriam Schwab, the owner of one of my favourite websites WordPress Garage, has published an article of mine on integrating WordPress blogs with your FaceBook profile. My article is here … Finding the perfect Facebook-WordPress system The solution that I am using is now Simply RSS, rather than WordBook which I mentioned in a previous […]
Our uber awesome, wonderful and truly incredible professional ice hockey coach Jenel Bode is leaving 🙁 Hopefully she’ll be back next year though 🙂 Rhyan McMillan and our uber awesome coach Jenel Bode For her goodbye bash, she organised a goodbye party in a cave at Longbeach. It sounded boring, getting stuck in a cave […]
After playing a round at Stewarts Gully Mini Golf, the Beasts found other ways to stay amused, including swinging and tandem bike riding aroung the golf course. Jane Soper providing amusement to the team by swinging towards a tree at full pelt Neil Dudley doing a jig while Rob Owens learns why Jane Soper was […]
The Beasts (my ice hockey team) headed to Stewarts Gully Mini Golf. The facility is owned by Clive Murphie, a top bloke who is also heavily involved with the Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club who we played against in Christchurch. As it says on the label, this is “Mini Golf”, so basically big golf shrunk to […]
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about GimpCam and NetCam recently. To save me feeling like a broken record, here’s a selection of pre-prepared answers … Yes I did look like a gimp while wearing it No I’m not going to lend it to you to wear to school No it doesn’t have X-ray vision […]
I’m now famous! My rather crappy videos have made their way onto the What Now TV show. I received an email from them the other day asking if they could screen some of my videos of the recent New Zealand Ice Hockey National Championships on their show. Pity I didn’t know before hand as I’d […]
I’ve been trying to avoid over-running the site with hockey videos from the Nationals, but this one definitely deserves it’s own post 😛 [MEDIA=39] I’ve also posted a higher resolution version here.
WordPress and Facebook are da bomb! I’ve now setup a feed from my website direct to my Facebook profile. Fingers crossed it works. If it does, then you should be able to see this on Facebook right now. Thanks to Rob at tsaiberspace.net for developing the WordPress plugin which made this possible 🙂
Dars and I need a new flatmate! Here’s some pics of the place. If you know someone suitable then lemme know 🙂
Thanks to Abby for the excellent video work. I’m number 98 with the black helmet and white gloves. Download Aardwolfs vs Jurassics video | Download Aardwolfs vs Albury video
The New Zealand National Ice Hockey Championships are on in Dunedin at the moment. I’ll be videoing a few of the games to post on here. I’m not bothering to play as I object to the ~$200/game fee!
During the Christchurch Aardwolfs Southern Migration we stopped off at the Manorburn dam to see what the ice was like. We expected to see nothing but water, but a slither of ice on the bottom basin was enough to give our resident ice expert Clive the hope to have a crack at skating on the […]
I joined the Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club for their Southern Migration tour. Here are some photos of me from the trip.
Here’s a panoramic photo I took of the Remarkables from the Queenstown ice rink. And here’s a photo I took of Ted skimming a stone across Lake Wakatipu.
Here’s some photos I took of Mount Cook en route to Queenstown during the Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club Southern Migration. Lake Pukaki can be seen in the foreground.
The brand new ice rink at Lake Tekapo is simply stunning! Gone with the old and in the new. For more information about the new facility visit http://www.alpinesprings.co.nz/.
Here’s some photos I took of Lake Tekapo while on the Aardwolfs Southern Migration.
We visited the Fairlie ice rink during the Aardwolfs Southern Migration. Not a lot to see really, just a mud bog! The Aardwolfs babes provided some amusement by strutting their stuff for the camera.
Anna with me in the penguin outfit.
I was dressed in a Yellow Eyed Penguin suit as the mascot for the World Friendship Ice Hockey Games. There were teams from USA, Canada, Australia, Korea and New Zealand. The suit was ridiculously hot inside and skating became more of a sliding waddle 😛 The kids seemed to enjoy it though and none of […]
Natasha came round to visit. She let me wear her lip pucker-upper 🙂 And Dars took this photo of us.
Dunedin Beasts ice hockey team in the Southern Ice Hockey League 2007. Photo taken at the Queenstown round and stolen from Andy Noble.
I did a bunch of videos of our trip to the Manorburn dam recently. They aren’t very long and I don’t have any of myself unfortunately 🙁
There was lots of pond hockey on the Manorburn dam. But of course, I and anyone else with a camera was playing in it! So I don’t have any photos of me playing 🙁 But here’s some action photos of the others.
There was a whole fleet of Dunedinites on the Manorburn dam. Here’s some pics of a few of us.
After some wickedly cold temperatures in Alexandra, I took Sarah, Jane and Kara through to Alexandra to go skating on the Manorburn dam. This was the first time I’d skated on it since I was about 12! Stu McLennan has kindly lent me the former Matt Mobile while he’s away in Australia which we used […]
We had another Brooker Bunch group photo done. This time was by a professional photographer and will be used in advertising for Sally’s inaugural professorial lecture. As you can tell, I’m not a big fan of having my photo taken 🙁 EDIT: Here is another group photo I found that needed adding.
Thanks to Dars for providing the clip.
The Dunedin Beasts team which I’m playing for in the Southern Ice Hockey League made a trip to Queenstown to play against a Queenstown team. We lost, but had heaps of fun en route 🙂
Photos of my ice hockey team the Dunedin Beasts.
Well, we didn’t exactly set the league alight, but we had lots of fun and fought our way galiantly to last place in the Autumn 2007 Dunedin Ice Hockey League B-grade. Here are some photos taken by Joe Sales of my team the Bears. Thanks to Joe for letting me post them here. I’m the […]
I played for the Dunedin Beasts in the Easton Cup. I also dragged our superstar ring-in Jenel Bode to play with us 🙂 Unfortunately she got injured and only played one and a bit games 🙁 We got totally thumped in every game. Was lots of fun though and I can’t wait for the rest […]
We’ve had quite a few visitors to the Brooker Bunch research group recently including Jane Nelson and Grace Morgan. This photo was taken facing away from the University of Otago Chemistry Department. From left: Jane Nelson, Grace Morgan, Humphrey Feltam, Ryan Hellyer, Jonathan Kitchen, Andy Noble, Owen Clements, Sally Brooker, Nick White and Scott Cameron.
Jon Kitchen and I took Kelly Kilpin on a whirl wind site seeing tour of the Catlins while she was here for Len Stock 2007. Getting Kelly to let me take her photo was a tad hazardous! Good time had by all and lots of pretty scenery was viewed on route.
My dear friend Debbie Jordan won an award recently for “outstanding communicator” at the NZIC conference in Rotorua. Here’s the poster she presented at the conference. and here’s a demonstration of Debbie using her subtle but effective outstanding communication skills 😛
The poster presentation at Lehn Stock 2007 was a good chance to network with chemists from other parts of the country. A rather stunned looking Matt Polson walking in front of my attempt to take a photo of the Steel group from Canterbury. Matt used to be my lab demonstrator many moons ago. My fellow […]
I attended the Dunedin Supramolecular symposium and presented my poster on mixed cobalt(III)/silver(I) coordination complexes. The star of the show was Nobel prize laureate Jean Marie Lehn who spoke about his pioneering work in the area of supramolecular chemistry. From the Supramolecular chemistry Wikipedia page : “Supramolecular chemistry refers to the area of chemistry which […]
Some photos I took (well apart from the one of myself) of Dunedin recently.