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Sysadmin, developer, web dude in a science research agency. WordPress, Japan, planes, trains, karate, Arduino, Raspberry Pi/Pico, puns, dad jokes, etc.
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Allrite’s Guide to Travel
There’s no denying it. I love travel! The planning, the preparations, the anticipation, (hopefully) the journey there, the places, people, sights, sounds, tastes and smells and finally your own comfortable bed at the end of it all. Travel is all these things and more. Yes, bad things can happen, but hopefully with the proper preparations…
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Cities of the Hot Zone
In Cities of the Hot Zone the foreign editor of The Australian newspaper Greg Sheridan shares tales of his travels through the cities of Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hanoi, Saigon, Hong Kong and Jakarta. He includes interviews with prime ministers, presidents and other politicians in each of the countries as well as academics and religious leaders,…
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How to rid ourselves of the scientist scourge!
Monday night’s edition of Rewind on ABC TV featured the story of Ruby Payne-Scott, the world’s first radio astronomer. Payne-Scott was forced to leave the CSIRO when it was discovered that she was married, as was the rule in the 1950’s with that organisation. This should be an inspiration for creationists (and I’m not one…
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Some time in Sydney’s far south
The [Sutherland] Shire might be far away from work and the CBD, but it does have many advantages. Last weekend B and I had a wonderful picnic lunch at Audley in the Royal National Park, followed by a relaxing row in a dinghy up the Hacking River. It was so beautiful to leave behind the…
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First infection of a PDA by a human virus
I was viewing a web page about tetanus vaccines on my Zaurus C700 Linux PDA when the machine froze. I rebooted it, it hung during the process, tried again, hung again. Tetanus paralysis taking hold. After the next reboot attempt it refused to switch on again, the LED’s just kept blinking. Tried again and again…