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iBook G4 800mhz: £750
Airport Extreme card: £70
Bluetooth module: £30
Watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with friends on a two hour coach journey along the M25 in the rain: Priceless
There are some things computers can’t do. For everything else, there’s Apple.
(Oh yeah, and I heard you can do work on these things as well…)

One of the more annoying aspects of my PhD course at Oxford is that I have to go to these ‘Personal Development Course’ events every so often, which are about as bad as they sound. In fact, all new biology graduates have to go to them, perhaps fifty in total. The first one, held some [...]

Wake up calls in Portugal - people pay for personal wake up calls in Portugal, and we’re not talking the automatic hotel-variety calls either. We’re talking human operator wake up calls. No, I couldn’t believe it either. More on those calls (scroll down).

Thank you… - this MetaFilter thread on how to write thank you letters is going to get very silly, very quickly.

On Johnny Depp becoming the front-runner for Willy Wonka in Tim Burton’s new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie (from TrekToday forum):
Tim Burton?
Roald Dahl?
C’mon folks, this is a match made in heaven. I’m looking forward to it. Tim Burton is probably my favorite director. Although I’d prefer Christopher Walken to Johnny Depp. Just imagine…
“You…fat boy…what [...]

Saw a great notice at the gym today:
Q: Why isn’t there a weight scale available here?
A: We did use to have a scale, however, customers didn’t believe it. We advise that you buy a set of scales for your personal use at home instead.

While reading a thread about PowerPoint on MetaFilter, I remembered something a friend said about me last weekend. She was a fellow student in my neuroscience course this year, and she said, “You could always tell whether a lecture or workshop was going to be any good by watching whether Adrian fell asleep in the [...]

In Wednesday night’s pub quiz, this question came up:
What kind of animal is a krait?
After a bit of silence and mulling, I volunteered, ‘You know, that’s the name of a ship class on Elite.’
Someone perked up. ‘Really? What were the other classes?’
‘Well, there was the Cobra - that was the standard ship. Then there were [...]

An amusing little saga has been unfolding at the Mercedes Road Range centre about five minutes away from where I live. Sometime last week, a new Mercedes SUV appeared, parked opposite the centre with large posters and writing on it that said, “Don’t buy from them!” and “If they treat you the same way [...]

There was a lot of driving today to go and see the Penguin Parade at Phillips Island, about two hours south of Melbourne. This will hopefully explain all of the exposition on driving that I’ll make later.
On the way to the Penguin Parade, we stopped off at a little wildlife sanctuary to see some of [...]