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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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  • Not the G7 – Back again to Japan

    I think it somewhat ironic and hopefully not portentous that I was watching London has fallen on this flight. Tomorrow is the first day of the G7 summit, being held in Japan this year, with seven major world leaders, including US president Obama in attendance. Fortunately, the summit is Ise Shima, nearer than Nagoya, while…

  • Anxiety of air

    A cursory glance at this site would suggest that I love flying. Indeed it can be the most joyous of experiences, cruising serenely high above the Earth. But that’s not what I’m feeling right now. A few weeks ago I was watching the planes overhead and dreaming of adventures upon them. After all, the skies…

  • Japan in 2006

    Our 2006 trip to Japan remains as one of our favourites. Three years before we had made the first of what is now many visits to Japan, but hot and humid September weather and the dreary grey urban expanses had left us largely unimpressed. Then in 2005, at the end of a big holiday in Singapore…

  • Ironfest

    Jedi and medieval knights, armoured tanks and giant steam tractors, steampunks and blacksmiths, Nazi soldiers and cosplay characters. Where would you find all of these in one place? Ironfest at Lithgow nominally celebrates the birth of Australia’s steel industry in that city. As one of the two remaining blast furnaces in Australia stands in receivership…

  • A little local history

    It’s astounding how much history can be buried right beneath your nose. Illawong has the feeling of a relatively recent suburb. Most of the houses are probably thirty years old or less, though there’s the odd single story cottage, a remnant of its farming days. Late last year one of the last farm estates was…

  • 8 of the best in Japan

    Here are my eight favourite towns and cities in Japan. It’s a personal list, weighted towards areas of Japan I’m most familiar with and the things I like, but each has something magical that makes me want to visit again and again. And, for all but one of them, I have. Shinjuku  On our very…

  • Supercolliders and Scooting home

    I’ve written before how much I hate the final day of a holiday, especially if it involves a night flight. The anxiety of the upcoming flight and the knowledge that there’s nowhere to rest before it. Our Scoot flight home is not until the utterly silly time of 1.45AM the following morning. After a breakfast…

  • Yum cha and Gardens By The Bay

    When we were researching our aborted side trip to Hong Kong we searched for good yum cha (or dim sum) restaurants. The name Tim Ho Wan kept appearing. This Michelin starred Hong Kong restaurant opened a couple of branches in Sydney last year, but the queues dissuaded us from trying it. They also have branches…

  • Chinatown and seafood

    Singapore recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of independence and there are signs of the celebration everywhere. The bookshops are full of nationalistic tomes for children, along with those celebrating the life and mourning the also recent death of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kwan Yew. This island city prefers a polished version of its history and…

  • Singapore Science Centre

    We all felt like crap today. Chewed up and shat out. It stank. And it happened twice. Two of us thought it fun. All of us saw something shocking. And more than one thing simply frightening. Hopefully we all learned something from the experience. I’m talking about the Singapore Science Centre. After a pretty decent…