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Jill does well at the camera club presentation evening

Posted on December 2, 2015 by geoff

Jill is doing fantastically well in her photography. She came away from the presentation evening with 2 trophies … Continue reading →

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Creating pretty drawings in powerpoint

Posted on October 11, 2015 by geoff

If you want to create drawings like the one to the right using a program you already know how to use, I have written a tutorial that may help you. Powerpoint is not ideal for this sort of drawing, but … Continue reading →

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Backups…

Posted on May 12, 2015 by geoff

Tidying my room today I came across a very dusty doc I had made yonks ago on the importance of computer backup. It had the “Backup song” that parodies the song “Yesterday” by the Beatles.  I rather like it, and … Continue reading →

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RIP Terry Pratchet

Posted on March 13, 2015 by geoff

Alas, DEATH has come to take Terry Pratchett from us. Viv has written on this on one of her blogs – clearly she was greatly affected. Read her comments HERE.  

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Lecturer of the Year Awards 2014

Posted on February 6, 2015 by geoff

I just got a pleasant surprise. Reading through the latest School of BioSciences newsletter I found I had been #8 in Australia in the Lecturer of the Year nominations. Newsletter Item Lecturer of the Year Awards 2014

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Photoshop’s content aware fill

Posted on November 5, 2014 by geoff

Just had a little play with Photoshop with a picture with converging verticals. here is the image taken looking upwards so the verticals converge I used the perspective crop tool to correct the convergence, leaving a blank wedge at the … Continue reading →

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Trends in VCE enrolments 1995-2014

Posted on September 9, 2014 by geoff

Some interesting data I came across, showing patterns of enrolments over time for subjects in year 11 (the start of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) that is our final educational qualification before tertiary/post-secondary studies).

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Student Feedback Semester 1 2014

Posted on July 7, 2014 by geoff

Here is a word-cloud summary of the student feedback for first year biology, for the question  What did you like best in the subject. I lectured for only 2 of the 12 weeks, but the students must like what I … Continue reading →

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A successful cookery experiment

Posted on June 4, 2014 by geoff

The price was right so we bought a whole rump. We decided to give low-temperature roasting a go – having vague recollections of Heston’s Feasts advocating this approach. So we dumped 3 kg of the rump in an oven bag … Continue reading →

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Kangaroos are upside down, down under!

Posted on April 8, 2014 by geoff

Interviewed by Mx newspaper… Apparently a celebrity comedian made some “rood” comments about kangaroo genitals … they called me to check the facts! click image for readable format

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