Posts from ‘April, 2006’

Meet Midge.

I need to hunt around for a good gallery/image thumbnailing/archiving plugin…

おわりました!!
It was supposed to be one of my best but it turned out to be the worst; the questions were much tougher this year. I explained why the tropics are more species-rich, the role of economic valuation in conservation, and life histories + extinction susceptibility. Kinda tricky, needing synthesis across many topics.
I can’t remember [...]

おとうとちゃん瘋了…

I was lucky. I didn’t touch even a bit of neuromodulation and molecular genetics, and I wasn’t forced to answer any of those questions. The three saviours: long-range navigation in animals, experiments to the ‘nature vs nurture’ basis of behaviour, and unbiased vs biased sex ratios.
There’s only one thing I can’t forgive myself for. I [...]

… to my dearest 媽咪 and 婆婆. *hugs*

Silwood accomms… check.
New swipe card… check.
Bank stuff… check.
Overdue email replies… check.
AB revision… erm.
My other preciouss - my lappy - had a near-fatal attack today, the symptoms of which were a sudden shut-down, followed by an Advanced BSOD (black screen of death) and a failed boot from safe mode. It then hung. And refused to start [...]

I wanted fisheries management but they didn’t give it to us. I suppose they didn’t want to let last year’s Resource Managers get it easy - I answered a question about fisheries last year.
Instead, it was nature reserve design + sampling programme for indicator species, freshwater ecosystem conservation, and integrated pest management (thumbs up for [...]

ANZAC Day