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The Day After Tomorrow is a big Hollywood movie portraying devastating weather phenomena as the world’s climate is suddenly flipped over to a new ice age by global warming. Tornadoes in Los Angeles, huge hailstones in Tokyo and a giant storm surge flooding Manhattan. Like most big-budget movies, it’s better to leave your brains at…

What are your favourite places in Europe? What travel tips would you give. I'm especially interested in Southern Germany, France, Austria, Northern Italy and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. (04-05-2005) You may be interested to view some of the photos we took during our three weeks in Germany, Salzburg, Venice, Florence, Switzerland Paris and Amsterdam. This…

The Molasses Flood of January 15, 1919 has to be one of the weirdest disasters in history. 21 people killed by a wave of molasses from a ruptured tank in Charlestown Massachusetts. Glad I wasn’t there. Can’t stand the smell.

I’m regretting not taking that European holiday now. Moneywise, jobwise and studywise it made a lot of sense to postpone the holiday for a few (too many!) months, but those are probably a few of the reasons I wish I was travelling now. I look out the window of my study at the evening sky…

A lot has happened since I last wrote something for this website. I have been back with the CSIRO for three weeks now, this time looking after the web pages for the ICT Centre on a 6 month contract. It’s great to be back, especially seeing all of my friends again. Sadly the ICT website…