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Sysadmin, developer, web dude in a science research organisation. WordPress, Japan, planes, trains, Arduino, Raspberry Pi/Pico, puns, dad jokes, etc

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  • A night by Botany Bay

    Realising that this would probably be the last anniversary for a long time that we could spend alone as a couple B and I stayed Sunday night in a hotel at Brighton Le Sands. The Novotel Brighton Beach has a pretty poor reputation amongst my work colleagues, but it was there that B and I…

  • Memorabilia & Memories

    Behind me, on the Japanese noren curtain, the petals of cherry blossoms gently drift to the ground. In front of me a model Narita Express runs past a Shinto temple. Diecast jet aircraft are poised in front of carp streamers to leap off the desk and across the ocean. Above me, posters for Le Chat…

  • More Canberra, more turbulence

    I may not be racing around Europe right now, but I did go somewhere today. Yes, back to Canberra again. How exciting… Well, I would have liked to have seen Canberra, visited Floriade again, the War Memorial, but there was no time for that. Just another meeting at the headquarters. I’m now officially tired of…

  • Qantas A380 3D virtual tour

    A very cool 3D tour of the Qantas Airbus A380. Probably the closest I’ll get to actually seeing the premium cabins!

  • Here, not there

    We should be in Korea right now. An overnight stay near Incheon Airport, then a flight to Prague tomorrow. Twenty days later we would be flying out of Amsterdam and back through Seoul to Sydney. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, that trip was cancelled. Poor B, with her bloated baby…

  • Overseas trip 2: Return to Kuala Lumpur

    Over four years was to pass between my first and second trips overseas. This was to be a shorter holiday, both in time and distance travelled, accompanying B’s mother and B back to Kuala Lumpur for a week. I had not particularly enjoyed Kuala Lumpur the first time we had visited. It was hot and…

  • My first overseas trip: Singapore and Malaysia

    I’ve always loved to travel. My first memory is of sitting in a an aircraft, aged 18 months or so. Yet I never believed that I could travel overseas. To me, it seemed like something you did when you retired, or if you were rich. That all changed when I met B. She had not…

  • Virgin Blue versus Qantas to Canberra

    Back down to Canberra again for the day for a meeting that couldn’t be done over a teleconference. How to make it interesting? Use it as a chance to compare Australia’s two largest domestic airline services. My previous trips had all been on Qantas and QantasLink aircraft, a mixture of Boeing 737-400 jets and Dash…

  • World’s best airports

    Skytrax recently announced their Airport of the Year Awards for 2008. The top ten were: Hong Kong Singapore Changi Seoul Incheon Kuala Lumpur KLIA Munich Kansai Copenhagen Zurich Helsinki Cape Town We’ve visited five out of the top six airports over the past four years, the exception being Munich, and I have to agree that…

  • Blogging on holiday

    How do I write this blog when I’m out there on holiday? My routine is usually as follows. We return to the hotel room generally not earlier than 8:30pm after a day exploring and travelling. While B kicks off her shoes and showers I swing into action. The first task is to setup my notebook…