Archive for March, 2007

29.03.07 | 1

Burnley Tunnel

Comments on a post at ockle:.
As a opening, lets think about some statistics. I was at a conference on Wednesday. The figure of 5 road deaths in Australia every day was quoted. That’s not to mention the 45 people who are injured. Of those about 15 are classified as [...]

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18.03.07 | Comments Off

6th Brunel International Lecture

I went to the 6th Brunel International Lecture on Tuesday last week. The topic was Engineering Civilisation from the Shadows, and it was delivered by Professor Paul Jowitt of Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. The lecture was all about the role of engineers in the two major issues in the world today; poverty [...]

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18.03.07 | 3

So sick of comment spam

I got so sick of comment spam that I have added Did You Pass Math? to the plugins for this blog. Hope the 3 of you who comment here can figure out how to add up numbers when posting a comment
Wish that Tiki Bar Tv would put up [...]

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16.03.07 | 1

Tasmanian Frisbee Stuff

Just got back from a great tournament in Tasmania. Typical frisbee tournament though – I saw the fields, the pub, the youth hostel and the airport. Oh, and the roads in between. Not much time for sight seeing elsewhere.
I was playing on Hot Chilli, the second Chilli team. We came 3rd [...]

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