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Magen brot
We were in an Aldi supermarket today when we came across bags of German ginger biscuits, including the spiced ginger "magen brot". We had to buy a bag! While in Frankfurt in 2004 we visited the Friday night street market/beer garden and stopped by the sweet stall pictured on the right. Convinced by the stall…
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Green Dragon, Sombre Warrior
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…
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ICT Centre software downloads
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…
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Attack of the malicious holons!
"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)…
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Le Chiffre = Dr Rudy?
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?
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Fastest wireless link
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…
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