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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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  • See Shanghai in a day

    If you want to see Shanghai quickly, just visit the Shanghai Planning Exhibition. They have a truly amazing recreation of urban Shanghai in miniature with thousands upon thousands of model buildings. Even the expo was rendered in tiny scale. Shanghai is a relatively young city for China. Much of the Shanghai we see today only…

  • On the menu

    On tonight’s menu was a selection entitled shattered sheep spine or packages of small cock. We could have ordered sheep’s head stew as well if we so wanted. Disappointingly for you readers we decided against eating any of these dishes or contracting some prion disease. Instead it was fried diced chicken and vegetables spiced with…

  • Expo’s star attraction

    It’s been 22 years since I attended Brisbane’s Expo ’88. That was one of the best experiences of my life, so I was looking forward to experiencing Shanghai’s more extravagant and far more expensive version. Did it meet my expectations? View from our hotel room The first problem was buying tickets. We left our hotel…

  • Real class, fake class: the flight to Shanghai

    I could get used to business class. What a fantastic flight! Flying 10 hours with a toddler wasn’t anywhere near as bad as expected. In fact, it was a wonderful experience. Now, this hotel is another matter. The room is so overdecorated that it’s cheesy. Gold trimmings everywhere in our room. Gold leaves, gold fish…

  • Keeping the barbarians out

    Arrived in Shanghai after a fantastic flight. Will post more later,but right now I'm frustrated by what I guess is the Great Firewall ofChina. Google still seems to work, as does Gmail, but Blogger iscurrently unavailable, as is Picasa web where I store my photos. Myphone says that China Telecom will only let it communicate…

  • Packed up and ready to go

    The bags are mostly packed, the dog is with the mother-in-law, the taxi has been booked and in a few hours we should be off to Shanghai. All that is missing is sleep: for me, that is. Have to get up before 6am. I do like to get to the airport early, especially as this…

  • The troubles in Thailand

    Today’s Sydney Morning Herald contained a map showing the Thai Red-Shirt area of Bangkok. The northern border followed Ratchaprasong Road, along which are the big shopping malls of Siam Square… and our hotel. It turns out that our hotel, the Novotel Bangkok Siam Square, had been closed from the 27 of April and would be…

  • From the Red Shirts to the Red Army

    We’ve finally made up our minds and changed our destination from Bangkok and Shanghai. It was the most expensive choice and probably the most challenging of the alternate destinations, but the flights worked out a bit better and it was difficult to pass up the opportunity for an Expo experience. The change assumes that we…

  • There were bumps and I didn’t care

    I had yet another day trip down to Canberra yesterday, flying on Qantas 737-400’s there and back again. The aircraft are looking rather tired these days and I think the “new” upholstery doesn’t help. Still, they do the task for now. Our flight was delayed due to some galley maintenance. Once fixed, it was back…

  • Shanghai, Seoul or Taipei?

    So far there still no resolution to the Thai crisis, so we are seriously looking at changing our routing for the upcoming trip. We have narrowed the choices down to Shanghai, Seoul or Taipei. Shanghai offers the World Expo and a side trip to the gardens of Suzhou. But we need visas and there will…