During the first year of my PhD programme, “flakery” was a term that some of my friends and I came to use to refer to things that were not, or didn't seem, scientifically rigourous or logical. We would describe a scientific paper whose results or conclusions we were suspicious of, as flakey. This usage gradually broadened to include nonscientific things that were hard to believe or apparently not well founded. I've become quite attached to the word, to the extent that my PhD supervisor now strongly associates it with me, and this web site broadens its meaning further to include everything that I'm interested in except what I work on daily in my research; including photography, philosophy and computing. If you're interested in my research in Medical Imaging, you can check out my research home page.
A special mention must go to ultrasound, the very embodiment of flakery in Medical Imaging. Only an ultrasound researcher would look at a TV screen full of static and be impressed by the signal-to-noise ratio... ;)
I'm sure the site itself is as much of an introduction to me as you need, if by some chance you've found your way here without knowing more than enough about me already.
The user visible part of the site is set up entirely around searching. If you don't know what you're looking for and just want to browse the site, try clicking the “I'm feeling lazy” button on the front page (if that doesn't seem familiar, it probably should), and a list of keywords commonly found in the database will be given.
All the material on this web site, including the photos, are mine (unless indicated otherwise), so please don't copy them anywhere else without asking me first. If you have any comments on the site, or something isn't working properly, please let me know. Thanks!