Hi again.  I am in the US at the moment and Tala, her parents and I went hiking in a forest just out side of San Francisco called Muir Woods yesterday (Mon 5th July local time).  The area is reknowned for its large stands of trees referred to by their common name of costal red-woods (Sequoia sempervirens).  […]

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After two and a half hours sleep I got up at 2:30am to make my way down to the opera house through the CBD. Down the southern end of the city near central there were people out and about, early morning delivery vans starting their rounds, clubbers heading home etc. I made my way down […]

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Every so often I have come across an image on the web of a massive number of nude people all arranged in a pose of some sort, most often in cities but also out in the country (see below for some examples). The photos are kind of cool in that the people in them are […]

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Hi to the rest of the world. I skate at Canterbury ice rink here in Sydney and of course the buzz there is that one of their skaters, Cheltzie Lee has made it through her short program to be placed 18th out of 30 skaters over all. This means that she will get to skate […]

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One of my pet hates on the internet is when you can’t find information or a picture that you know is out there, or if you are looking for an image say and all you can find are these little tiny versions of pictures re-posted every where but never the source image.  For instance there […]

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As a researcher I do a lot of trawling of electronic data bases for data or information.  When you are performing a search, the construction of a good search string is critical in being able to find what you need.  If there is something unique about what you are after then it makes it a […]

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I have two New years Resolutions this year.  I thought I would put them down here so as to better hold myself to them. 1)  Stop being late for things. To date I have found that I am often running late for things or else forget about things entirely, whether that be staff meetings at […]

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As I mentioned in a previous post I am a member of the Giant Microbe Affiliate program, mainly because I love all the soft toys made to look like microscopic organisms, and as a research scientist these are the things I deal within my work. The way the affiliate program works is that for each […]

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I am writing a couple of grants at the moment.  For those of you who are not familiar with how scientific research works, scientists need to apply for funding for their experiments and they do this by applying for grants from various funding agencies.  The biggest in Australia is the National Health and Medical Research […]

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Hello once again.  In this article I wanted to talk about comment spammers.  Like email spam, comment spammers use software to trawl the internet for comment fields in blogs and forums etc and then automatically enter multiple comments and flood your system with stupid, useless comments. I describe them as stupid and useless comments not […]

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