Sorry for the cliché, but welcome to my blog and happy new year. I suppose this is one manifestation of my new year’s promises to myself, although in reality I just have a bit of time on my hands at the moment thanks to the completion of my PhD – and this acts as a worthy outlet for my procrastinatory desires to avoid doing the corrections to my thesis.

I’m a biochemist, and I love all sciencey stuff. I studied mRNA methylation and made use of all kinds of whacky and novel methods in an attempt to unravel some of the mysteries of mRNA biochemistry – I probably won’t go into much detail just yet since I’ve been scooped enough without giving away my secrets in advance!

I want to spread some science around, see if I can introduce some complex ideas into the “public” eye – see how far I can get with discussing complex ideas and putting them into context and put some application to them. Although, I must warn you – I’m a major supporter of blue sky science – no specific endpoint or application in sight because that’s where I see all the biggest discoveries coming from.

My other interests (I may write about these, I may not, after all this is my blog) are varied, from fitness and martial arts, to animal rights, to electronics (although my experiments in electronics seldom go well) to photography, and I’m in to computer hardware stuff, gaming fits in there too somehow.

I’m also really bloody opinionated – so I’m sure this blog will be as enraging as it is enlightening (or more so).