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Brissie to Brizzle

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About B2B

Welcome to Brissie to Brizzle.

I’ve been in this blogging game now since 2004 when I followed the lead of some of my friends and started the blog Quantumbiodiscs. In those days I was a PhD student living in Brisbane who was looking for a means of web-based procrastination. Eventually I overcame the distracting powers of TeH intertubes and finished my PhD in 2005, packed my bags and got a real job in Innsbruck, Austria.

Last year I switched jobs and countries and found myself happily inhabiting one of the more drizzly English cities, Bristol. And now I’ve finally given enough background for the title of this blog to start making some sense; Brissie being one of the many nicknames of Brisbane, the town where I grew up; and Brizzle being one of the more common monikers of my current home.

With luck I’ll regularly update this blog with whatever is floating around my head in any given day. For those of you who are familiar with my blogging background you should probably expect this blog to be more Quantumbiodiscsish than LPish, though it’ll probably turn out to be like neither of those blogs.

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  • mick

    I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the field of quantum information science and an occasional blogger.

  • mick’s random thoughts on Twitter

    • @vodkandlime I'd just like to say that the bakeries in my new neighborhood in Germany are fantastic... #therehadbetterbepastries 2 days ago
    • I'm confused by the literature on counting classes. Dear Computer Science, please write up your results more clearly. Cheers, Physics. 3 days ago
    • @vodkandlime yes. Also, plugging a monitor into one doesn't really do much for the monitor. 3 days ago
    • @vodkandlime it's true. They are even better than shiny new macs. 3 days ago
    • Funny. There's been more discussion in the lunch room on Copenhagen than Berlin. 4 days ago
    • Wow. The UK govt did something smart. They finally realize a "Big Brother" database isn't such a hot idea http://tr.im/EF0R 5 days ago
    • @danbrowne77 that's actually pretty cool. If they had done this a year ago I would have bought an iphone. 5 days ago
    • Apparently most Liberal Party MPs believe that the Earth is flat and smoking is safe - or at least something like that http://tr.im/EC1Z 5 days ago
    • @mattleifer no choice I'm afraid. I've just installed Versions for a trial. Thanks for the tips! 5 days ago
    • Anyone know any decent SVN clients for mac? 6 days ago
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