May 22, 2012

Emergency services radio

South Australia map

I have a lot of respect for ABC Regional Radio and the service it provides. I also appreciate the ABC has an important role as an emergency services broadcaster. But I struggle to see the merit in broadcasting fairly mundane fire updates across the whole of country South Australia. Driving home from work in Mount [...]

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Dugouts saved lives

There has been some discussion following the Victorian fires about whether dugouts might have saved lives. They saved lives in 1939, including my Uncle Jim. My Uncle Michael died in a dugout, but there were exceptional circumstances. My Aunt Noreen talked about the issues on Radio National with Philip Adams: Tweet Pin It

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Third birthday

The twins celebrated their third birthday today. It's hard to believe they are that old already. Here's the entry I wrote the day after they were born. Jim and Maggie aren't old enough to understand it's their birthday, but they know it's a special day because of the presents they received and the party we [...]

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GoPC virtual operating system

I discovered an intriguing new technology gadget tonight thanks to the Google ads on my own site. It’s called GoPC and it’s a virtual operating system that provides a free service for accessing programs and data storage online. It uses Suse Linux and provides a limited number of programs with the free service. These include [...]

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Gentoo screenshot

Here’s a screenshot of Gentoo using a KDE desktop with a background picture of Jim and Maggie. There’s nothing uniquely special about it. A couple of extra observations from my previous post: Gentoo boots more quickly than any other distro I’ve tried; about the same as Windows XP. Some of the stable packages are out [...]

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