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
Administrative Stuck in rural Queensland 27 Dec 201022 Jun 2018 So, here I am, marooned in Warwick, southeast of Brisbane, about one and a half hours drive. Stuck here by this: We missed getting through by half an hour or so. We may be stranded for two days… And no Internet! Read More
Administrative The ET Fund update 21 Mar 201221 Apr 2012 I continue to be humbled and my ego stroked by contributors to the Save ET from Extinction fund. I thought that it would be a good idea to maintain a list of contributors. So this is a post that will become a page later on. Thank you all! Recent contributors:… Read More
Administrative Species: a history of the idea 21 Jul 2008 Today I got my manuscript off to the publisher. Heaven knows what the editors will do with it; I expect a sympathetic treatment as the publisher’s editorial board are quite keen. But it’s like having a ten year boil lanced. And seeing a favourite child graduate. All at once. So… 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…