http://arotau.com Lyndon & Mim's site Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:26:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mim’s sister, Ruth, has just headed off to Australia for a year’s working holiday. Mim took Joshua to the airport to see Ruth off and took a few photos there. http://arotau.com/2009/03/10/ruths-departure-for-australia/ My sister, Robyn, just graduated from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with a Masters degree in Medical Statistics. Mim & I went along to the graduation ceremony, which was thankfully a bit shorter than our own had been as it is an entirely postgraduate institution (hence ... http://arotau.com/2009/03/10/robyns-graduation/ The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Make sure you delete my x’S! 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - x 2 The Lord of ... http://arotau.com/2009/02/28/silly-memes-100-books/ We had some heavy snow a couple of weeks ago in London. We took a couple of photos of our back garden, and a couple after our walk in the park with Joshua. http://arotau.com/2009/02/22/london-snow/ Here are a few photos of Joshua from this month. One of our cameras broke so we seem to have slowed down on the photography recently! http://arotau.com/2009/02/22/joshua-feb-2009/ I’ve been planning to do some software updates to my web server for a while. Over the last couple of days I’ve been slowly doing bits and pieces - slowly because I had an operation for carpal tunnel syndrome and can’t use both hands. So far I’ve done the following: Upgraded ... http://arotau.com/2009/02/22/web-server-updates/ Years ago I worked for Ross Ihaka at on the R project, a free software statistics environment that has become pretty popular (if you visit the website you can see my name in the contributors list - though my contributions were not exactly central to the project!). R has now ... http://arotau.com/2009/01/09/software-i-worked-on-makes-the-ny-times/ We spent Christmas staying in a cottage in Cornwall, as Mim’s grandparents and Aunty & Uncle live down there. Mim’s parents and sister joined us from Cirencester. Joshua’s still a bit young to appreciate actual Christmas presents, though he was fascinated by the bubbles produced by the bubble ... http://arotau.com/2009/01/03/christmas-2008/ A few more Joshua photos. http://arotau.com/2008/12/07/joshua-dec-2008/ For our summer holiday (actually in late September) we spent a week in Rome, followed by a week in Sardinia. http://arotau.com/2008/11/15/rome-and-sardinia-sep-2008/