Most scientists are your typical mild mannered nerd – well, at least the ones I have met. They are usually more interested in whatever research they happen to be interested in and will happily spend their days thinking about metal-organic…
I am an avid watcher of documentary productions by the National Geographic Society. In Sydney, documentaries by the National Geographic Society are usually about the reproduction cycle of plants or animals, about travel, about marine ecosystems, etc etc. You know,…
I have now been back in my “kampung” (village) Sungai Pelek for about 6 days and it has been a real struggle to get new articles written. Sungai Pelek is a smallish town about 20 minutes south of the Kuala…
Well, folks, I am off to Malaysia for about 4 weeks. While I am there I will be keeping an eye out for any interesting local news. In the meantime, let me settle in and get a feel of what…
I have used Google for quite a few years now and I know of some simple tricks to search for items, e.g. adding the name of a country, say, .au to the end of google.com to look for items which…
Against my better judgement, I am putting up this post. A friend sent me this pic. He suggested that if I posted this pic on my website, I would “attract social comments” 🙂 My first impression was that while it…
I have never ever really understood why people use Microsoft Office. I mean, I do know that large companies and government departments like the comfort of dealing with a big company like Microsoft but even the average man-on-the-street seems enamored…