Content tagged: something-i-learnt-this-week

There are no trains running from Liverpool St. today

Well, we're just over one week into the adventure and so far things are going well. This is a relatively unorganised and illogically grouped list of observations and other stuff. Very few critical items were forgotten in the big move. We haven't run out of money yet. I'm still unemployed (and working on changing that). Laura is employed (and would like to change that). We have a great little (by Australian standards, but not tiny by UK standards) house. The weather has been...good...I think1. This list could go on, but I'm bored with it. We're still about a week away ... more

The Third World and Terror Alert

I'm currently reading a book1 called Mastering Modern World History. It's a little bit arguable exactly how "modern" the history involved is, since the book was published in 1982, before I was born. In fact, the chapter I've just finished reading states "Germany remains divided and it's difficult to imagine the circumstances in which she could become united again." Aside from this, and aside from the fact that it's incredibly geeky2, it's actually a really, really interesting book which is teaching me many things I didn't know. One of the most interesting things I've learned so far is the derivation ... more

Transposon

I hereby resurrect the "something I learnt this week" posts. Although they are still unlikely to be weekly. I have just been enlightened (mostly via Wikipedia) on what a transposon is. In short a transposon is a small part of DNA that can move around within the genome of a single cell. They can cause mutations and increase or decrease the amount of DNA within a cell. The amount of DNA within a cell can be changed because some of the transposons (types I and III) copy a section of the DNA and transpose it to another location. Type II ... more

Something I learnt this week

I just realised that I missed the 'Something I learnt this week' post last week. So there's something I learnt this week straight away. This afternoon my mouse battery light came on and the computer kept flashing at me and telling me the battery was low. I had been waiting for this event for a while and I'm impressed at how long it took to eventuate. You might remember that I bought this new keyboard and mouse a while back (see previous post). If you check out the date on that previous post you will notice the thing took 26 ... more

Something I learnt this week

Apparently you learn something new every day, so I figured that it would be easy enough to articulate something that I had learned each week (there should be seven at least after all). Actually coming up with something useful that I learned isn't all that easy. This week I learned how to make pineapple upside down cake (like I've got the time to be making cake!). Anyway it didn't take that long and it was a fairly simple process. I got the recipe from here the wonderful recipe threads at Scribblygum (here, here, or here). The threads themselves are a ... more