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On Saturday we thought that we'd enjoy a nice lunch at a restaurant in Cronulla. Upon arrival we discovered the Jazz and Shiraz festival running beside the beach. We don't like jazz or shiraz, but there were some interesting food stalls as well. I tried a spicy Peruvian fish dish while B ate Italian as…

I have just finished watching the ABC documentary Crude about the origins and history of oil and the consequences of its use. The thought provoking video is available from the above linked website. By looking at the conditions that produced the major oil reserves the documentary ponders whether our burning of oil and other fossil…

Can't keep secrets from my wife. There goes the surprise, but oh well, so long as she's got a smile on her face I don't mind. That'll teach me not to clear my browser history and log out properly! It feels good to be playing the keyboard on a Friday night. Letting my fingers loose…

Yesterday I had to dust-off my frameset and Javascript knowledge for a project we are undertaking at work. We are putting together a DVD where the navigation system is in HTML while the contents may be HTML pages, PDF's, Flash animations or movies. Now, most of my coding is server-side scripts, primarily in PHP, but…

For the past two Saturday nights I have been subjected to two very different live singing performances. The first was entitled A Night in Middle Earth, performances of Tolkien's verse to the music of Donald Swan and Benjamin Britten, interspersed with my youngest brother reading excerpts from the books and his wife performing interpretive dance.…