Look, a butterfly!

I finally put music to my ant video. At the risk of being cliche, I decided to use Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Flight of the Bumblebee”, but I think it works really well. It’s pretty cool how the brain naturally finds correlations between sounds and images - the bit when the circle starts to get smaller and […]

According to the traditional calender, summer ended approximately 7-8 weeks ago. According to the meteorogical calender, summer ended appoximately 4 weeks ago. According to the astronomical calender, summer ended appoximately 1 week ago.
However, according to the Aggie calender, summer ended last night when it got cold enough to close the windows before going to bed. […]

Have you had trouble embedding YouTube files in Wordpress? I have just found out that this is because
…for various reasons, mostly related to your security, we [WP] don’t allow people to post arbitrary code in their blogs.
The tricks to do this succesfully are as follows.
For wordpress.com insert the following bit of code
[youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]
and modify the link […]

Today I found myself in Toowoomba, 100 km west of Brisbane. When I left Brisbane this morning, it was around 25 degrees C already and I was cursing myself for wearing jeans. This turned out to not be a problem as Toowoomba got chilly very quickly and a thick fog came down on the town. […]

So yeah, this is my new blog. I thought we should celebrate. Drinks anyone? I know what you’re going to say “why yes, Aggie, I would love a drink, but how on earth will you get it to me? A drink is not a single photon. You can’t teleport it to me, can you?” Well, […]