In 1997 I was a sperm donor in the Monash IVF program at the Epworth Medical Centre in Melbourne.  I was 21 at the time and in the honours year of my Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne.  The laws must have changed since I was a donor as you have to […]

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Episode 2: Valiant
Australian Air Date: 10/5/09 Sunday 6:30pm
Not a bad episode.  As the second episode all the characters have settled down a bit.  The main ones, Merlin, Gaius, Arthur, Uther, Gwenivere and Morgana were introduced in the last episode, the film makers can now start to explore the relationships between the characters a bit more.  […]

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Most people probably have a story to tell about products they remember eating as a kid which they return to years later only to claim with some alarm, “I remember these use to be much bigger”.  In some instances, certainly, this may be due to an increase in size of the person doing the remembering, […]

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One of the purposes of this blog is to have a look at the sorts of things that bring people to a web site.  I wanted to try different sorts of content to see what sorts of content attracts the most readers.
 
I mentioned in my post “How to increase hits on your web site” […]

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Air Date: 3/5/09 Sun 6:30pm
 
The first episode of Merlin was aired last night so I thought I would write a quick review, particularly since it is the first Myth and Magic style fantasy TV series we have had for quite some time.  There will be two sections of the review, the first one […]

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My mum and my sister bought me these really cool soft toys in the shapes of microscopically sized things  for my birthday this year.  But more than just being something a little unusual, they are actually really well made and really clever.  They are by a company in the US called Giant Microbes and the […]

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One of the main aims for my blog, apart from being a place where I can collect information which for one reason or another is difficult to find otherwise, is that I wanted to play around and see what sorts of things attract readers.
In one of my first posts I talked about the blog of […]

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For anyone interested in starting up their own business there is a fair bit of literature out there on the topic.  One of my favourite authors is Robert Kyosaki of the immensely popular Rich Dad Poor Dad series of books.  The first of the books Rich Dad Poor Dad was number one on […]

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In December 2008 I learnt about Foreign Currency Trading.  Reading around online I found there were a number of brokers that allowed you to trade foreign currencies and they all offered demo accounts that let you try their trading software on the live market, but using imaginary money.  Coincidentally a friend of mine […]

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This is the second of a post in which we are looking at how to construct your own infrared light source from a commercially available kit.  Below is a picture of the completed infrared light source we are about to make.  It has 140 x 850nm infrared LEDs.  As described in part 1 of this […]

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