Chris Rodgers

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 [...]

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, [...]

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-1.2.tgz file. Extract it [...]

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 [...]

I use a piece of software called Bacula to make backups of the data on our home PC’s and on various websites. Version 2.0 of Bacula has just been released! I have built a set of RPMs for fedora core 4. They were built using this spec file in the following procedure. Installing v2.0 Configure [...]

A family member recently asked me how they could get access to an old PC running Windows XP Pro, whose administrator password they no longer knew. I found this tool invaluable. It reset the password in a matter of minutes and with no problems. Links Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD Mirror [...]

I am enjoying a relaxing time with my family over Christmas. I wish you too a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

I am a physical chemist working at the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research and Merton College at the University of Oxford. Please follow one of the links above to find out more about me. The bar on the right of this page has links to other websites. Recent additions to my website are shown [...]