Well as usual it has been a while since my last post. In the mean time it has also become 2011. I spent New Years this year camping on a beach on the East Coast of Tasmania near St Mary’s, though I am not sure of the name of the beach. While waiting for midnight [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Once again it has been a while since my last post, so I thought I would fix that by posting this, but also take the opportunity to explain why. As a research scientist, information is my stock-in-trade. We are good at searching for information, analysing information and/or creating information. Information is what we do. So [...]

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