Archive for June, 2007

20.06.07 | Comments Off

More thoughts on ITS on CityLink

Seems like I just can’t stop writing about CityLink and ITS.
I drove home from work today (which is a rare event) and hit the typical congestion between the Domain tunnel and the WestGate. About a kilometre after the tunnel I passed under a Variable Message Sign (VMS), which warned me of [...]

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19.06.07 | 1

Learning to Sail

I’ve been thinking about learning to sail properly. We’ve got a little Laser at home, which I can handle pretty well. But, it might be nice to learn to sail a cruising yacht and have a holiday in the Whitsundays or something. Or sail around the carribian….arrr!!!
Have checked out www.sunsail.com.au, who were [...]

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18.06.07 | Comments Off

I’m on Stalkerbook and other stuff

After a fair few emails asking me to sign up to Facebook, I’m now there. I’m yet to decide whether I really like it or not. On the plus side I have caught up with 3 friends from overseas who I haven’t seen or heard from for years. On the downside, it’s [...]

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13.06.07 | Comments Off

GPS and Camera

I’ve been thinking about the tech stuff I want to take with me overseas to Europe in July. Computer is probably a no-no, don’t really want to cart that around. Ipod is a bit unneccesarry. Seems like a silly idea to go overseas and listen to music that I can listen to [...]

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12.06.07 | Comments Off

Farewell Autumn, Welcome June

June already. My, my I’m so slack at writing things here.
I’ll just plead that I’ve been so so busy. The whole working, studying part-time, working, singing, playing frisbee, doing laundry and so on takes up so much of my time. There’s nothing left for doing things like this. I realised yesterday [...]

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Further to my previous post, I went to a technical seminar on the Burnely Tunnel last week. The speakers discussed the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) that are in place in the City Link tunnels. The presentations touched on the recent accident in the tunnel, but of course could not go into much detail [...]

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