Welcome

At long last I've created what some people call a 'tech' blog. A blog about my work: it's rants, it's faves. I didn't think I could write one given the nature of my work and the necessity to keep the 'cool' things under wraps until published, but I think I've found a way.

I am a synthetic organic chemist. I work in a laboratory. I got my PhD at the Australian National University and now I am at the University of Sydney.

This tech blog will be about the itty-bitty little things that will help us labrats in the fumecupboard's lives all the more easier. Things that get left out of the experimental section because either they're considered too trivial, or because they only occurred once so we never bothered to write about them.

Due to the necessity of publishing, chemical structures will be few and far between: this blog will mainly be about lab technique, manipulations - perhaps spectroscopy as well - but that is not my forte.