Today I went into the field with a colleague of mine (Kat, who was on Totally Wild yesterday) to help her with her current research project. She’s investigating the ecology of the Lamington spiny crayfish up near Lamington National Park.

A Lamington spiny crayfish (Euastacus sulcatus). This one is animal number 11.

These crayfish can be quite

New copyright laws are apparently planned for Australia. At the moment it’s illegal in Australia to tape a TV show at home. It’s also illegal to transfer music from CDs you’ve legally purchased onto your computer or MP3 player. But Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has announced that cases such as these will be catered for by

First I was blown away by Cog. Now I’m amused by Impossible Dream from Honda.

I’m not sure I particularly like Ecto, so I’m giving MarsEdit a go.
A few minutes later…
Well, after a couple of minutes of playing around with it, I much prefer MarsEdit to Ecto. It’s got a much simpler interface. I use NetNewsWire Lite, which is by the same developer.
I’m going to see what happens when I

I’ve been watching Surface since it started, and I watch Threshold the other day. I’ve come to realise that characters on TV who are supposed to be scientists but who really don’t know anything about science really annoy me.
Take Surface, for example. In last week’s episode the phoney marine biologist attached a satellite tag to

I downloaded Ecto, which is a desktop blogging client for Mac OS X. This means I can write and format my blog posts offline, then upload them when I get online. It should be useful for when I go into the field. I can write posts while I’m in the middle of woop woop and

Stewart heads to Mt Glorious for a spot of herping

The face of David Hasselhoff has been found on a slice of toast.