Earlier today, the following tweet was sent from the @ABCReligion account on Twitter: Here is the ABC’s Editorial Policy for Social Media: http://about.abc.net.au/reports-publications/use-of-social-media-policy/ Here is the text of the complaint I lodged with the ABC: I feel the tweet sent by @ABCReligion: “Hmm, just tuned in to #QT to catch… Read More
I made it! Not that it was ever really in doubt, but you never know. There was a near disaster at Sydney airport when I put my passport and boarding passes in my back pocket, only to have my backpack knock them out. A couple of minutes later as I… Read More
Wednesday Wisdom: Wherein I share knowledge given to me by others wiser than myself. A tip from the book “The Now Habit”. Open a spreadsheet program and set up 7 columns, one for each day of the week. Down the left side, divide the days into half-hour increments. Or be… Read More
Get hold of a personal finance program of some sort. I use GNUcash, but it’s probably a bit industrial for the casual user who doesn’t know accounting. There are a bunch of online ones like mint.com. Get out all your bank statements for the last financial year. Enter them all… Read More
Term 2 has begun in earnest, and I’m staring down the barrel of the first weekend of classes, so now is as good a time as any to reflect on Term 1. I passed, so that’s nice. It’s also nice that my hubris in my last post on the topic… Read More
I recently spoke with a company who were setting up a process for estimating project costs, broken down by the services provided by the IT teams. The usual thing, how much for documentation reviews here, time to build servers there, etc. I was struck by the level of detail they… Read More
Max Daneel Warren, born 11 June 2010. Isn’t he cute? More photos in the gallery. Read More
Check out this most excellent robot that balances on a ball. I particularly like the ‘passive assistance’ mode that provides an omni-directional wheelbarrow, and when multiple robots combine, an omni-directional omni-barrow. Or trolley. Of course, this excellent robot can still be improved. By making it out of Lego. The future… Read More
I finally got around to uploading a gallery of photos I took from the Australian Synchrotron Open Day last year. What is a Synchrotron? A synchrotron is basically a particle accelerator, but instead of trying to find the Higgs-Boson (or create black holes and cause the end of the universe,… Read More
Last week I had quite a shock: The Australian domestic air travel experience is dramatically better than the US experience. I’ve heard various people complain about it, and it seemed to be much the same stuff as we get here: the security theatre, queuing, delayed flights, hassles and pain. Well… Read More
