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Tan Dun at the Sydney Opera House
It is rare to have the opportunity to hear an Oscar winning film music composer’s music played live in Sydney, even rarer to hear him conduct his own work. I was very excited to discover that the Chinese composer Tan Dun would be conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing a suite from his score to…
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How to make a century egg
How to make a century egg, though you really wouldn’t want to (sorry B)…
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Star Trek Nemesis aint so bad
I have finally seen all the Star Trek movies after watching the tenth installment on DVD tonight. Started off a bit like a TV episode before growing is size. As usual, they did their best to destroy the Enterprise. What do the movie makers have against that ship? Not being a Star Trek fanatic, I’ll…
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Better to read them on the web then chain mail
Ha ha, very funny
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Recognition
Warning:Big soppy whinge coming up! On the corridor wall directly opposite my office door there hangs a large poster describing the pulsar catalogue now available on our website. The catalogue is a superb piece of work, Albert, George and Maryam did an excellent job putting together a very useful tool for our website. Astronomers around…
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allrite.com.au and other changes
Some pretty big changes to allrite.net over the past couple of days. Firstly, the allrite.com.au domain name has finally been set to point to allrite.net. Eventually I will migrate the scientific content across to the allrite.net format, probably into Drupal itself. For now, the allrite.com.au content can be reached via: http://allrite.net/default.htm The other, more noticable,…