At last! A Macbook! 22 Jan 2009 If I have seemed a little distracted and unresponsive lately it’s because I have been using an old clunker of a half dead laptop. I received my new employ’s Macbook yesterday and spent pretty much the rest of the day migrating to the new beast. I’m still in the process of moving to Sydney – which won’t finish until next week – but I should be able to reply and write a bit more easily once I get all my software up and working. Administrative
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Administrative A nice experience 12 Oct 2007 My mate Ian Musgrave, Astroblogger and expert in several fields of science, and his lovely family, are up visiting rellies in Queensland from the arid wasteland that is Adelaide. We all went on a bushwalk and while we were eating apples at the top of the cliff, we saw a… Read More
Administrative Lego me too! 12 Aug 200718 Sep 2017 I had to. They made me do it. Yes, I’m smoking again, but I’ll give up soon, I promise. The grumpy expression is because I’m teaching… Read More
Thanks. I should mention that I have been a Mac user since around 1985. I really tried to use Windows, I did, but I found having something that worked was way preferable. Don’t mind Ubuntu Linux, though (I learned Unix before I learned DOS).
Hey. Welcome to Sydney! To be honest it’s a pretty dire town these days unfortunately – but there are still some places they haven’t “renovated” where you can get decent cold beer, which is after all the most important thing. (er besides coffee, and you’re in luck there -Toby’s on City Road is just across from campus and arguably the best coffee in the state) Anyway if someone should organise a welcoming party, I’d come.. Hmm let me think – Sydney Uni … Duck & Swan maybe? (Because everyone always goes to The Rose) Oh, and welcome to Macbook too. That is all I’ll say on that topic…