Chris Rodgers

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.

We played host to the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ESR group annual conference (”ESR 2007″) here in Oxford this week. I was delighted to be able to talk about my research, and it was great to meet many eminent scientists working on ESR over dinner.

The conference website gives details of the scientific programme and a [...]

This weekend I went to visit an old friend who now works on the Isle of Man. It’s an amazing place and I really enjoyed the chance to escape the DPhil writing up and go and walk up various “bumps”!
This is the arms of the Isle of Man

It was pretty windy in March, although not [...]

The pdfcolour utility allows one to split a PDF file apart to give two separate PDFs, one containing the colour pages and the other containing the B&W pages. That way, one can easily print the B&W pages on a faster, cheaper printer and reassemble the document by hand.
Instructions:
Download the pdfcolour-1.0.tgz file.
Extract it using tar -xzf [...]

I found a useful article that explains how one can use emacs to find/replace in several files at once:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/find_replace_inter.html.

We woke up to a beautiful scene this morning: at our house there was 8cm of snow. Everything was white! Cycling in to town was something of an adventure. I saw this snowman in Hertford College.

I made this cake (inspired by an internet recipe) this evening. It tastes delicious and is nice and moist inside so I thought I would share the recipe.
Banana, date & walnut cake (Chris’ variation)
Equipment
bowls, scales, electric mixer, microwave, oven, loaf tin
Ingredients
100g dried dates
50g dark rum
175g self raising flour
125 g butter
150g sugar
2 large eggs
4 small/2 large [...]