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Liam D'Arcy Brown both speaks Chinese and writes excellent English prose. His book Green Dragon, Sombre Warrior, recounts his trip around the four compass points of China. He travels around China by train, bus and ferry, talking with the locals and those who have travelled from elsewhere in China along the way. What really stands…

I thought that work was supposed to quieten down close to Christmas, but it just seems to be getting busier for me. I have finally released the software downloads facility on the CSIRO ICT Centre website. Note that I'm talking about the web application, not the software available at the site. Okay, the ability to…

"The eNetwork would self-organize in appropriate resilience patterns using a novel context-awareness mechanism envisioned to tune the autonomy across the holarchic levels according to the detected/anticipated intent of eventual malicious holons." From the abstract for "Synopsis and Tutorial on Adaptive Risk Management for Distributed Sensors and Systems" by Professor Mihaela Ulieru (University of New Brunswick)…

Is the character Le Chiffre from the latest Bond movie Casino Royale actually Dr Rudy from SBS Television's mock home improvement show Life Support? 

It's been another very busy week at work. The highlight was the unveiling of a 6 GB/s wireless link demonstration, currently the fastest in the world, at my workplace. I had only a peripheral role – helping to clean up the mess and directing traffic, but my colleagues were kept very, very busy. The demo…