2002 - Lachlan's London, UK 2002 Web Journal

2001 - Lachlan's London, UK 2001 Web Journal

• Want to go blind? Here are some stats pages to help!! Look at them long enough and that will be the effect.
  • Unfiltered CCP14 webstats: http://webstats.ccp14.ac.uk
  • Filtered for academic content CCP14 webstats: http://webstats.ccp14.ac.uk/filtered/
  • Personal webpage stats: http://stats.bluehaze.com.au/lachlan/

• Checking the Daresbury SRS X-ray beam status:.

  • Graphical: http://accelerator.dl.ac.uk/srsinfo/statusdisplay.html
  • ASCII: http://srscss3.dl.ac.uk/status/status.asp
  • SRS Beam Status Parameters (restricted): http://www.srd.dl.ac.uk/srs/sroperations/Parameters.htm
  • Storage Ring Parameters: http://srscss3.dl.ac.uk/SRS/SR_Param.asp

  • SRS Info Home Page: http://accelerator.dl.ac.uk/srsinfo/

  • Status of Daresbury Taxi Bookings: http://database05.rl.ac.uk/cgi/ice.exe/taxis/TaxisHome.html
• SRS Stations List and Schedules:
  • http://srs.dl.ac.uk/info/index.html
• What's Happening at Beamline 16.4 just now? (Energy Dispersive Diffraction Beamline)
  • http://camsv1.dl.ac.uk/
  • The Gallery - Image 1
• Spot the Crystallographer at IUCr Congress 2002 (Geneva):
  • http://www.crystal.chem.ed.ac.uk/picture.htm
  • http://www.crystal.chem.ed.ac.uk/picturearchive/iucr1.htm
  • http://www.crystal.chem.ed.ac.uk/picturearchive/iucr2.htm

Misc Things

• Hints for Building Diamond
  • Not to be confused with the Campaign for Diamond at Daresbury Page
    "Stitched up, sentenced; not dead yet." (from the Dave Love E-mail Signature archive)

• SBT (Science Board Technology Division) CoffeeClub Page
  Presently restricted to viewing from dl.ac.uk domain. (racy stuff!)
  • "As per some misconceptions: This is to reiterate that the computer (SBT) coffee club is not a democracy! It is a self perpetuating dictatorship run on the cruel rigours of Darwinian and evolutionary selection pressures - where the weak and gullible are appointed to run the club at the "end of year" Christmas lunch."

    Lachlan M. D. Cranswick
    (Deputy President of the SBT Coffee Club, Elected December 1998)

  • Further Adventures of the SBT Coffee Club (Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, UK):
    • Blurred Pictures of getting to the Computing Coffee Club Christmas Lunch and SBT Election 2000
    • Computing Coffee Club Christmas Lunch and Excitement plus: SBT Election 2000
    • SBT Vote 2000 Results
    • A Question asked while in the USA during the US 2000 Elections

• Web and literature references on the Toxicology and effects of Hemlock on humans and animals (For those curious about effects of Hemlock vs the reported accounts of deaths of Socrates (by Plato) and Seneca; and pondering whether the reported toxicology is consistent.)

• "Cleaning of Lachlan's Tea Mug Special" - 22nd Nov 1999

• Extract from CSIRO Minerals News: An interview with: "Dr X-ray Ted" (laboratory Icon)

• The Layre of Count Geiger-Muller and Professor X-ray Ted

• Myth Breaker Page
  • Line dancers (while line dancing) are never seen smiling. Various profound conclusions can be drawn from this.
  • The crew of the "Captain Pugwash" cartoon had smutty names
  • All country music is garbage
  • The aircraft brace position is primary for minimizing the chance of your head flying off during an aircraft crash and thus makes identification of bodies easier

• "Advance Australia Fair" Original Lyrics Homepage. Now (thanks to Jean and Jill from the CSIRO library) add some original old "Advance Australia Fair" sheet music obtained from the National Library of Australia:
  • "Advance Australia Fair" Lyrics and Sheet Music from 190-? (Rev. and improved ed.)

  • "Advance Australia Fair" Lyrics and Sheet Music from c1915

  • "Advance Australia Fair" Lyrics and Sheet Music from ~191x

  • "Advance Australia Fair" Lyrics and Sheet Music from 1928

  • "Awake Awake Australia" Lyrics and Sheet Music from "Paling's album of national and patriotic songs"

  • "An Australian Hymn" Lyrics and Sheet Music (written and composed by Amicus) ~1880

  • "Advance Australia Fair Material at the Australian National Library"

  • "Advance Australia Fair official Australian Anthem: year 2000 text from Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Factsheet 17

• Weblinks relating to Compulsory Voting in democratic elections (Mainly concentrating on Australia and Compulsory Voting)

• Natural Law Party pre-Millenium Australian Election Pamphlet. (Digitally preserved for posterity)