Gorilla librarian

I couldn't resist this one!! Just like our selection interviews isn't it?!

The insulting librarian

Scanner

Used the "Follow That...Reader" to scan - but should've added more colour. Dead easy - helps if you remember to save as .jpg and not other variations.

Much easier than double-sided copying!! No I didn't do it right first or second time - am now up to speed!

wikis are wonderful!

Wikis are wonderful - and very useful.

Yesterday I set one up for our family party in 2 weeks time. To avoid having 20 bottles of Pimms, (fairly typical of everyone choosing booze,) I decided to create a wiki so everyone could note down what food they'd bring and we wouldn't end up with a glut. It took less that 10 minutes to set up from scratch on Jeff's email and we've already have a couple of answers. In fact it worked out just as shown on the video Isla recommended about wikis.

The food and drink list has been edited and added to by different members of the family and we can all see it . It's easy to share and saves loads of emails.

Wizzy!

Staff manual here we come!

The Mouse that cried

Try out Friendfeed. - One of Isla's suggestions from the conference yesterday.

http://friendfeed.com/the-life-scientists

I signed up and found a goody because I had a pet mouse that cried - yes it was male. Yes it was on its own. My mother, being a sucker bought it a little female and.... 3 months later there were 60 or so mice in our outhouse. Now I've discovered why it cried!! - Good old Snowy!

This is what it smells like when mice cry
June 30th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

A pheromone in the male mouse’s tears causes a positive sexual response in female mice who smell it. The neural pathway was meticulously mapped in a study published today in Nature. Females ready to copulate arch their back and pose their behind when the pheromone, ESP1 is secreted. Females not ready to copulate usually just run away.

Pheromones in tears may have evolved because tear fluid lingers in the fur, and female mice often groom the faces of other mice. Crying for sex does not work in humans though, as quite a few of us know.

Haga, S., Hattori, T., Sato, T., Sato, K., Matsuda, S., Kobayakawa, R., Sakano, H., Yoshihara, Y., Kikusui, T., & Touhara, K. (2010). The male mouse pheromone ESP1 enhances female sexual receptive behaviour through a specific vomeronasal receptor Nature, 466 (7302), 118-122 DOI: 10.1038/nature09142t

Thing 12 - wiki

Screenshot of wiki contribution:-

I think this is just what we want for our staff manual. Will have a play with uploading some of our documents and editing them. It means we can all edit processes as they change and everybody will know where to find the latest procedures.

Very useful for any collaborative ventures.

Mind you - don't know what happened to by Google gadget - it's on my edit screen but no sign on wiki - still haven't cracked it. Nil desperadum! There's always tomorrow.

Thing 11 - pigs and vege

Google docs - seem very easy to use - even I managed it. Screenshot below. It's also easy to share - see if anyone responds to email.

Was delighted to be able to produce a form. Jumped in with both feet so didn't compose a proper question - but great fun, (on the subject of pests and vegetables.) Screenshot below - no it isn't - Isla - help!

Still to try slide option and powerpoint.