Just a post...

To let you know that the post for Wednesday will be posted tomorrow - I have an exam at 8am and two workshops tomorrow so a lot of work to do before hard.. Talk to you tomorrow.. Read more On "Just a post..."!

I bet you wanted to know...

...what new phone I plan to get in September this year when my contract is up.





WHAT and give up your 4GB MP3 player/mobile phone - YES YES YES..

Why you ask?

Cause this phone has a 16GB memory AND an microSD slot for an additional 8GB (a soon to be realised microSD 16GB is going to make this even bigger and better)...

Are you kidding me?

NO I am not - doesn't this just shit all over the iPhone??

In fact I want to compare the two phones (actually I won't - I will post a link that has already compared the as yet still unreleased (in Australia) iPhone and the soon to be released sometime around August 2008 Nokia N96

iPhone vs N96

I think the main things you need to worry about is =

iPhone - NO flash; java; GPS; SD slot for expansion; radio; 3G; unable to record sound....

N96 - all of this and dare I say it - a little bit more...

Nokia N96

and before I leave - a little thought to put inside your head...

Would YOU go for a Sony Ericsson phone? If so check out this little beauty..

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1



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mah mah mah mahnday mahdness!!

I could have taken the easy way out and talked about the Splendour line up. I might do a little of that but not right now - but I wanna talk about my personal trainer...

And what the hell does my personal trainer have to do with music I hear you ask.. NOTHING...

Except every Monday when I go and see him (and he only just realised today that there is a "lazy person" inside me.. INSIDE I say she ain't so hidden!!!) he always asks me what bands I have seen lately.. Do you know it has been ages since I saw a band. Man oh Man I am crap.

So Johann (my trainer) and I always end up talking about the bands - I wanted to see but didn't get too..

Today was all about Juliette and The Licks! I wanted to see them so much - but they played Wednesday night at The Zoo and alas I had an exam on Thursday (70% exam at that) - although I have a feeling my marks may reflect the fact that I may as well have gone and had fun instead).

Now for all you kids out there that have no idea who or what Juliette and The Licks are, I am here to inform you (ok Cas I know you are probably the only one reading but please bare with me)..

Juliette Lewis - as in used to date Brad Pitt - a little freaky, a little nerdy, a little weird, is the singer.. And by all accounts does she put on a show. I even saw that the merch was a indian tribal headdress with two feathers attached as she always wears.

Well anyway without further ado

Juliette and The Licks perform HOT KISS!!!



and a live version of
YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE!




Tomorrow shall be about a little trivia on....

hahaha nope you just have to wait and see!!

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Should a thief be rewarded for their behaviour?

It took an ex-physicist and a former ornithology student — along with some unwitting help from a competitor — to crack the secret of life...



(click on link to read the post...)


I have missed blogging - I have been doing it on and off for the past 4 years or so. I don't know why I stopped - just ran out of things to say. I think uni drains my creativeness - you can't really be creative in science - not while still in the learning process anyway.I have decided to do themed posts....

So most days I will try and post something - a little post - nothing much but themed..

Here is what I propose (if you can think of other things let me know)

M is for Music Monday's
T is for Trivia Tuesday's
W is for Written Word Wednesday's
T is for Silent T Thursday's
F is for Fashion Friday's
S is for Sexy Science Saturday's and Sunday's


So obviously I am hoping to post something about each of these topics during the week. I have left Thursdays open as either a non post day or possibly they could be about anything if I so chose to post...

Is this going to be possible - who knows... Will I keep doing it - again who knows.. I do know that I will most likely be posting these posts in all of my blogs - this one... My livejournal one (hello TV.net and RoTV) and then Myspace...


Questions? Comments? Thoughts??

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So here's a little post on science to keep you entertained until I have this up and running...



I want to tell you a little about one of my Scientific Hero's. Rosalind Franklin. She helped discover the structure of DNA (the double helix - everyone remember's the geeks going to the prom in Never Been Kissed).

Why is she one of my hero's - she is a female scientist - a very successful one in the 1950's - working in London - and beating those boy's at their own game!!!

Now when I say helped discover - really I mean it was mainly her. She worked out through x-ray crystallography (The most widely used (and most accurate) method of obtaining structures, X-ray crystallography involves expressing highly purified protein samples, crystallizing these, and then performing X-ray diffraction of the protein to elucidate crystal structure). That the structure was a helix structure and it was 2 strands not 3 as previously thought. She also worked out that sugar-phosphate backbone was on the outside of the molecule not the inside as previously thought. The only thing she couldn't work out was how the bases paired on the inside of the helix....

This was left for Francis Crick and James Watson to discover.

Maurice Wilkins was Franklins collegue at King's College in London where they worked together in John Randall's lab. He and Franklin didn't get on - what with this being the 1950's and Franklin being a female (and most probably smarter than him). Wilkins decides to take Franklin's UNPUBLISHED work to Crick and Watson - without Franklin OR her boss Randall's permission or even knowledge.

This helped them put 2 and 2 together. Their work was published in the same volume of science journal Nature (April, 1953) as Franklin's work. In all accounts Franklin never knew they had had access to her work. Five years later Franklin was dead (at age 37 from cancer).

Crick, Watson and Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962 (as this award is not given post-humously Franklin yet again misses out).

Now I can understand why Crick and Watson received this award, I know they did say that their success would never have been possible without seeing Franklin's work.

I can even sort of understand why they don't give this award post-humously.






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