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The sky is falling!
I was going to post an entry on my ideal office. Then this happens… This afternoon we heard a big crash as the ceiling in an office very close to my cubicle collapsed. Fortunately the occupant was out of the office at the time, otherwise he may have been badly injured. Our office spaces were…
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Second Life
I tried out Second Life the week. Second Life is a virtual 3D networked world featuring customisable avatars, objects, locations and even its own convertible currency ("Linden Dollars"). A number of real world organisations, including the ABC and Telstra, have established presences in Second Life and my employer has shown some interest as well and…
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Australia Day in 2007
The house across the road from us has a big Australian flag hanging off the balcony. As we walked out to get some lunch we passed youth wearing the flag on their clothing or draped across their shoulders, even while eating at McDonalds. Utes drove past with the miniature flags fluttering from their windows and…
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Interesting articles on China
Ron Gluckman has a number of interesting articles about China on his website, including a ride on the first train to Tibet and the reinvention of the canal towns near Shanghai. Seems like he is good at finding fault with China, definitely a foreign journalist for the mass media, but worthwhile reads all the same.
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Jiayuguan and desert
Travelers' Tales China is, as its name suggests, a collection of various true stories about experiences in China. I'm certain that Donovan Webster's chapter China's Unknown Gobi, is a reprint of an article in National Geographic that really captured my imagination. Ancient ghost towns, lonely oases and rapidly expanding deserts that threaten to engulf cities.…
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LIFE to be decommissioned
Australia's first website was life.anu.edu.au, later moved to life.csu.edu.au when the maintainer David Green shifted from the Australian National University to Charles Sturt University (he is now at Monash University). A notice on the Life site states that the server is about to be decommissioned. Professor Green gave me my start on the web in…
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