Archive for March, 2004

Gone fishing

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

I was pretty busy on Monday morning! I caught this little bad boy just off Rattlesnake Island (which is about 15km NNW of Magnetic Is.). Niall took Brad and I fishing out there in his sweet boat. The fish tasted good!

I’m off into the field this thursday, so plenty to get organised. As I mentioned, [...]

Our newest Australian

Friday, March 19th, 2004

There was a small flag-waving celebration last night as Zoe became the newest Australian to grace this wonderful continent. The mayor was there and everything.
We then went to The Australian hotel on Palmer St (how appropriate) for a couple of VBs (we decided that XXXX was a bit too Oz).
Also, check this out from [...]

Al Beit and the Punmakers

Thursday, March 18th, 2004

Due to popular demand
Get ready to funk ’till you drop.
Al Beit, tortologist and etymologist extrordinaire, lights up the Townsville Entertainment Centre with an eclectic mix of puns, limericks and all out crazy haiku sets.

Al Beit
Supported by his band the Punmakers, who are driven to perfection by the master.
This Saturday the 20th March 2004. [...]

Data data everywhere

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

I finally finished off the vast majority of my database construction and data entry yesterday. This means that i can quickly and relatively efficiently enter data, search it and export it to Excel.
Then, in Excel, I built a series of worksheets that will allow me to just drop data from the database searches onto [...]

Swim team

Monday, March 15th, 2004

After a respite of a week or so, due to the visit from Guy, the three person swim-team has started back at training.
Today I swam 6 laps and hurt all the way. Welcome back.