So now I am in Sydney, with Grant and Lindsay (old friends from Canberra). Newtown seems nice, in fact the house itself is very nice. However, the streets are pretty Victorian and built up, which is a bit oppressive. Then again, I am told there are a bunch of parks I haven’t seen yet, so…
Tag: australia
Beware the concierge at the Rendezvous Hotel!
Heh, he cancelled my hire car booking without my knowledge or permission. Then when it was fixed, the car company tried to bill me $100 for cancelling. It took a while to sort out…
Qantas site
Is it just me, or is the Qantas website crazy slow?
Melbourne
This one took a couple of days to write up cause I am slack… I flew down to Melbourne for the night the other day to present a beta of the NSLU2 hacking talk at the Linux Users of Victoria LUG meeting. It’s good that I did, because although the talk was ok, I don’t…
In Canberra
Lefty tighty, righty loosey When Frank used to drive in the US when we were on business trips, he’d mutter “Righty tighty, lefty loosey” as he turned corners to make sure he ended up on the correct side of the road. Now that I am back in Australia, I guess I need to mutter the…
Back in Canberra again
Catherine, the kids and I have made it back to Canberra successfully. The flight from SFO to SYD was actually pretty good. I was dreading the kids screaming the whole way, but that completely didn’t happen. They were a bit fidgety by the end, but so was I so that’s fair enough. Met by various…
Travel details so far
So, it looks at the moment like my travel schedule for the next month will look a bit like this: 30 September: Arrive in Canberra 3 October: Melbourne for LUV meeting 4 October: Return to Canberra 10 October: Melbourne for AUUG conference 13 October: Sydney 26 October: Canberra for CLUG meeting 27 October: Return to…
Looking for Women studying computing in Australia
I was in an unrelated meeting at work today, and it came up that the first annual Anti Borg scholarship is closing it’s application window in a few days. I thought it was worth mentioning here, in case there are people who are interested in applying. The basic deal is: Dr. Anita Borg (1949 –…
On a bunker kick
Now that I am back on my bunker kick dad points out that there was a bunker in Canberra (my home town) as well. Some references I can see online make it public now, including this heritage list. I’m wondering if it’s the same as the Bunker Theatre in the same building now. That would…
Hmmm, even more Police Academy
The Police Academy has problems with sexual harassment, as well as people bringing random firearms to class. I guess the next step is an article about one of the students showing up with an amazing ability to do voice sound effects. Via Crap On, which I found with The Australian Index which is an aggregator…