Chris Rodgers

If you’re considering opening an account with the Halifax, my advice is don’t bother!
We recently moved house on 28 June. The same morning, I delivered change of address forms in person to our local branch. The woman behind the desk checked them, tapped the details into her computer and said that everything was fine.
Now, nearly [...]

This is a blog post made with Word 2007.

 
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I found solutions to two long-standing irritations in Cygwin on Greg Coombe’s website.
Cygwin exit gives error message
Does exiting Cygwin sometimes generate a “Terminate Batch Job(Y/N)” message? If so, you’re probably using a Windows batch file to launch Cygwin. If the batch file doesn’t consist of much, then just put all of that information directly into [...]

My bank provides OFX format files for download from their Internet banking website. This short perl script ofx2txt converts these into tab delimited text files suitable to be opened in Excel.

I used the excellent bib2endnote project recently as a starting point to convert a DocArc library of references into EndNote format. This method retains any attachments.
Brief notes
:
Modify “docarc” binary, changing:
sub new
  {
  my $self = LWP::UserAgent::new( @_ );
  $self->agent( “getbibitem/$Version” );
  $self;
  }
to
    sub new
    {
        my $self = LWP::UserAgent::new( @_ );
        $self->timeout(60000); # Use a [...]

We went for a lovely walk with my family yesterday in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. There are a few public rights of way through the grounds, which you do not need to pay to use. The one we prefer begins on the A44 (“The Causeway”) here

You enter through the green gate marked “95″

All this [...]

Today, I started a new research project developing the methodology for 31P magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR).
I will be using a new 8-channel phased-array coil together with a Siemens 3T scanner to develop methods for cardiac MRI.

Yesterday, we were thrilled to see Caroline’s brother Jon marry Amie. Their wedding service was held at the church where they both work and was a great testimony to their Christian faith.

Caroline and I were married on 7/7/7 at St Ebbe’s Church, followed by a reception at my then college: St John’s. The day was absolutely splendid and we are very grateful to so many friends who travelled to celebrate with us. Our wedding photos are available online for friends and family to view. Instructions for [...]

At long last, after months of writing, I submitted my DPhil (i.e. PhD) thesis today. It feels great!

I particularly like this photograph that my fiancée took just before I handed it over at Examination Schools, Oxford.