Hello everyone.

Although I haven’t posted here in a while, I’m still actively working on the site and this brand spanking new theme is proof.

Have a look around. If you feel like it, tell me of anything you spot that looks wrong either in the comments, or just by tweeting it to me on Twitter @Yorrike . If you’re feeling particularly adventurous, try using the “tweet this” link below and watch in delight as any tweets regarding this post will appear in the “tweetbacks” section of this post.

If you’re using Internet Explorer, you can wait a few days until I get around to fixing any display bugs you’ll no doubt be seeing (even though it’s all perfectly valid XHTML and CSS, which is displayed properly in Safari, Firefox and Opera).

2009-09-18 | by Chris | Comments (2)

Update: Andrew from About:Geology noted that the original address (for the 21st Amendment Bar) I had on this post was wrong. It’s now been updated.

Hello everyone.

Sorry for the long hiatus here on goodSchist and on the podClast, I’ve been traveling to various places in Europe for the past month and I’m about to head out on the second leg of my long trip home later this morning with a flight to San Francisco.

This will, of course, bring about the long talked about San Francisco GeoBloggers in the Pub event that I’ve hinted at to various people over the last few months.

So, if you’d like to come along, have a few beers or drinks of various other types with geologists and geobloggers, and participate with a live recording of the podClast, here are the details you’ll need:

Date: Saturday the 25th of July
Time: from 1400 (2pm) onwards (podClasting from about 1500 I reckon)
Place: The 21st Amendment Brewery, 563 2nd St, San Francisco (Google Map)

If you’re intending on joining us for the podClast recording and you have an iPhone, it’d be really handy if you loaded a copy of the Griffin iTalk app (website here). It’s free and means we can have a few recordings going on at once for prosperity/volume levels. Also, if people could suggest topics for discussion in the comments section below, that’d be great too (although a free flowing discussion will no doubt ensue).

Hopefully see a reasonable group of you there.

2009-07-15 | by Chris | Comments (8)

As many of you may know, I’ve been in the UK for a couple of months, and I’ve got a couple more to go before jetting off to Europe in June and California in July.

On the first weekend of May I’ll be stomping around the mighty city of London and in between catching up with the 7 million kiwis who live there, I’d like to initiate the first Geobloggers in the Pub (calling it “Geologists in the Pub” would have set off my redundancy meter – but either will do). Before announcing official times and a location, I’d like to just get a show of hands from geologists or geo-interested persons who’d be willing to sit around a table in the mid afternoon in a pub in central-ish London on Saturday, May the 2nd.

Since it’ll be a podclasting weekend, I’m intending on doing a recording with whoevers there too, getting opinions on whatever geonews is around for 20-40 minutes. That’ll make it the first “live” podclast.

So, who’s up for drinks and some light conversation?

2009-03-25 | by Chris | Comments (7)

Well, I’m busy at the moment, not only am I racing against time to finish the first draft of the MSc thesis, I’m also frantically packing a bag. Tomorrow afternoon I’m leaving my little Pacific archipelago and heading for the bright lights and fast times of the UK and France.

The former issue above is the reason for there having not been a podclast in the last couple of weeks. Ron and I tried to record last week, but Skype refused to cooperate. This week I tried again, but everyone who normally joins was busy. That meant procrastinating (by writing bit of my thesis) and therefore, no podClast.

I’m going to try really hard to record something before I leave, but failing that, you’re going to have to wait another month before the next podClast is up. I’m sorry about that, but the situation causing this disruption is rather unique.

On the up side, I’ve thought ahead and I have at least one interview lined up in the UK (the first podclast interview, quite momentous), so the podclast isn’t dying, that’s for sure.

2008-07-15 | by Chris | Comments (5)

I decided the old goodSchist design needed a bit of a kick, so I’ve given it a little work over. Hopefully it works in internet explorer, but if not I’m going to be making modifications anyway, and I’ll do my best to fix any problems.

I’ve made the changes so I can make quick, short posts like you’re supposed to be able to do with blogs anyway. This way if I see something cool, or note-worthy, and I don’t want to spend an hour writing about it, I can just let my small readership know and move on.

I’ll still be writing my normal long articles and the podClat posts will be just as detailed as you’re used to. I’ve still got some things to work on , but the main functionality of being able to make short entires, like this one, was my primary objective.

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