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Psychosocial support after the Christchurch Earthquake, Sept 4

Here is a message I just sent out to those who attending the Foundations of Psychosocial Support workshops I ran in NZ for the Ministry of Health last year:

Dear all,

I am sitting here in London listening to Radio NZ and watching the reports coming in from Twitter about the quake just a few hours ago outside [...]

Synctunes works to copy from iTunes to Android 2.2 HTC Desire

I’m sure it will work with a Desire running 2.1 too, but just a quick note to say SyncTunes works to copy over playlists,. smart playlists and podcasts – albeit in a relatively simple fashion. I’m not sure if it is still readily available, but the old copy of this little free app works [...]

Kindle lust

Amazon have announced their new Kindle for $139 and ny looks like a must have little hackable gadget to me. It is released on August 27 and although they will be selling it in the UK I am tempted to picking up in LA as I will be there that weekend. Looks like brilliant value and [...]

Divorcing my iPhone 3G – Hello HTC Desire

My iPhone battery has been flagging for a while, and I started noticing the little cracks in the ceramic case that afflicts the white cased 16GB iPhone 3G. It is a known defect and acknowledged as such by Apple. Indeed, they replaced the iPhone once for me in NZ.  But unfortunately, my current model is out-of-warranty so [...]

Back in London – 1 year on

It has been just over a year since I returned to London, and a bit longer than that since I took a break from living in NZ. A lot has happened. I’ve traveled – on my own: to New York for a training course at Fordham University – and with Kate to Paris, Calais, Stockholm, Amsterdam (x2), New York, [...]

Makes Zidane look like Noddy

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And how did this young chap not get sent off?

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Married – with baby on the way!

This really isn’t good enough is it? I’m leaving it way too long before posts and paying far too much attention to twitter, facebook, audioboo, dailymile, and garmin connect (for my marathon training) while neglecting my humble blog, when I should really be hanging everything from the blog. I really must figure out a way of [...]

New flat, election – where do I start?

What an interesting few weeks. I haven’t been posting, mainly because I haven’t had much of net connection until late last week (it’s good to be back). Lots has happened, and unfortunately, I’m just going to have to list them and begin to update again a bit more frequently.

My flat purchase has finally gone through. I [...]

Last day of one of my best holidays ever

Sadly, this is our last day of one of the best holidays I have ever had, and the first adventure I have had overseas (not involving a return to NZ) with Kate. We’ve had a great week in NYC, followed by a 5-day road trip across NY State, Connecticut through Rhode Island and into Cape Cod, [...]

Martha’s Vineyard

We meant to go to the JFK museum in Hyannis this morning but we were thwarted as we’re traveling around here out of season. Still, we hung out, bought baseball caps, as you do. We drove down to Woods Hole to get the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard where the weather has brightened up and we spent [...]

Worldwide

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Word is out: APS job in Minister of State for Health’s Office

I heard from a colleague back in London that it has been confirmed that I will be leaving my current team to be transferred into an Assistant Private Secretary role for the Minister of State for Health. It’s actually a more junior role than my current post, but it was an opportunity not to be missed. [...]

H1N1 research proposal for Health Research Council NZ: Funded!

The news is coming in thick and fast, holiday or no holiday. I’m part of a team that put in a research proposal to the HRC in NZ to investigate community responses to key health messages in the 2009 & 2010 H1N1 campaigns, the impact of messages on behavioural change and the differential impact on vulnerable [...]

New job back at DH?

I’m on holiday with Kate at the moment in NYC, staying in Park Slope, Brooklyn with my friends Erin and Drew. Lovely people who I met last year when on the Mental Health in Complex Emergencies course at Fordham University. Although it has been a miserably rainy, windy and cold (6C) day in NYC, it is [...]

MSF running and racing update

This is probably a week or so overdue. It’s been a couple of weeks since I ran my first race in this series – the National Cross Country Championships held at Roundhay Park in Leeds on 27 February. Without a doubt, it was the hardest race I’ve ever run in. For a start – there is [...]

Departmental business time

I got a text message last night asking if I wanted to attend a Ministerial briefing meeting today, and if I did, to wear a suit. I don't habitually wear a suit. I would probably wear one more often but the weather has been off-putting. I hate wearing suit, overcoat and all that jazz – I'd rather wear [...]

Small gadget review – Radiopaq ‘Pop’ earphones for iPhone

I don’t know what the rest of you iPhone users think, but the headphones that came with my iPhone 3G were pretty dire and have developed the widely experienced fault of going completely dead on the right side. My lovely work colleagues from my last team at the Department of Health got me a voucher to [...]

Sarb is running for MSF in 2010 – support appreciated, coffee, money, shoes…

On the 14th of March this year I ran a 10km race in Regent’s Park to raise money for the international humanitarian medical aid charity, Médecins Sans Frontières. This year there were around of 250 us running – university students and members of the public from in and around London.

But that was just the start. Here [...]

February Freeze

Argh, I’m sick of this grim winter. Cold, cold cold every day. Enough already. At least the days are getting noticeably longer – about 28 minutes per week at the moment which is heartening at the beginning and end of the day. There is something quite deadening about getting up and going home from work in [...]

January news

You can see from the left sidebar that I have been tweeting about running and work and life in general. The integration between Facebook and twitter that is possible – and Audioboo too for that matter means that I seem to be able to manage these three types of communication on a much more frequent, light-touch [...]