What is the benefit in stagnating a countries economy?

Kudos to Tim Burton. I quite liked it. Very odd and I did not realise it was a full musical, rather than just token songs. Anyway, i enjoyed it. Nicely put together, well filmed and Tim Burton up to his usual antics. The plot isn't the thickest, but it's unique at least.

p.s. lab audits suck

p.s. melb does rock - going to the grape grazing festival on sat. mmmm wine

Wed Feb 6th, 2008

Once upon a time, a person could do a medical degree and then choose to work in science. Physically doing labwork aswell as being a group head or even the director of an institute. They could even come up with the method for producing a vaccine against cervical cancer and sell the patent. licensing. These "medico's" prove to be quite good at research, for the most part, due to the ability to look at thigs from different perspectives. Yeah there are a lot of tosses that think they can work in science because they are doctors, but the good ones are really good. Nowadays, you need to pursue different paths. You need science, honours, sometimes masters, then a phd. To be a 'group head' you need publications, a good standing record and lots of ass kissing. The divide between science and medicine is increasing. There is a great divide between those pursuing direct treatment of individuals and those searching for an idea as to how the bigger picture works. One is not better than the other, but there is a lot of negative tention between the two. In Aus/US/UK etc this is particularly true. The lack of communication accelerates the negativity one shares with the others. People need to realise the benefit of intertwining the two disciplines. A lot of Euro countries still pursue it, why not the others. Now that doesn't even touch on the government pressure to provide a "translational" or clinical outcome, and the shit clinical treatments that are being pushed out the door without fulling understanding the reason as to how it works. But that is another story, along with China's sheer dominance over the number of publications being released. With proper guidance, china can be an impressive force in the scientific community.

Steph is cool, she lets me go to Australia vs Qatar, FIFA World Cup Qualifier.

Tomorrow night



so yeah...

Ipod nano 4gb's rock. itunes sucks.

Just because you throw a fwe thousand songs into the library it decides to chuck a spaz and spend literally hours analysing gapless information, downloading album art etc etc. Yeah it doesn't help that they are on a machine in another room, but still.. Even windows media player does it better.

Just as yahoo seems to be getting back on their feet properly and starting to take off.. WHAM - $50b .

I guess absorption into MS isn't too bad - they have bought so many companies that they obviously have a few decent coders now.

Seriously - if you are reduced to using mentally-impaired old ladies to blow up innocent civillians in a PET market, just because you have ADHD, you should give up. Why would you even bother if you had to resort so low.

p.s. Damn magpies are big down here!

p.p.s. It may not have the biodiversity, but damn the flora and fauna is abundant in Vic, even in the inner city.

hate is a strong word, I rarely use it. When I do use, I rarely mean it.

I would, however, say I hate < a href="http://perezhilton.com/">Perez Hilton

He is an arrogant ass, who makes money from stupid people, has no taste and steals photos from photographers.

In other news - it sucks being home alone on a friday night when you actually have money (for once) to go out.

Should do some work I suppose. - today was my most productive day of lab work in over a year. A damn busy day, but productive.

p.s. - if anyone is interested in Researchgate, let me know (it's like a facebook, for scientists. beta at the moment).