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 work or […]

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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 toy […]

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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 just […]

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Health authorities in Australia, as elsewhere in the world are currently obsessed with Swine Flu, or as those same authorities would prefer us to refer to it, H1N1.
The designers at Giant Microbes have even put out a Swine flu soft toy (see  here), which like all their other  toys are a great likeness of the […]

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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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