I changed a few of the design elements on the page so that it is cleaner in Mozilla based browsers such as Firefox. For ages I’ve been looking at it all broken and it annoyed me. Those with IE, too bad
Due to popular demand, I’ve also added some photos from the weekend jaunt to [...]
We headed up to Paluma (the rainforest to the North of Townsville) with three friends. The purpose of the trip was simple; stress relief.
We left in the afternoon, after everyone had time to sleep in, go to the markets and have a bite to eat. The first stop was Frosty Mango. It’s a road-side cafe [...]
I’ve been processing some of the invertebrate samples for my PhD and have been coming across these weird little, spiny donut shaped things.
Turns out that they’re “testate amoeba”. That means they’re single celled boogers that make a ‘test’ (little house) out of tiny grains of sand. They then cruise around and engulf their prey. Cool, [...]
Zoe had her first day as a student yesterday with a meet-and-greet the department presentation and a tour of campus.
I was one of the mentors taking the young kids around the uni and leading them astray (not really, I’m too old to lead them astray).
It was sooo hot though. Everyone was dying within about 10 [...]
Check this out. I bought a copper-banded butterfly fish, but it died while in quarantine. How painful