At the end of January 2015 I will allow my membership of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) to lapse. It's true that for the last couple of years I was only paying discount membership rates because of my employment/health status, and during that time I rarely if ever attended branch events. But before that I was an active member of the society, ( Read more... )

I was teeth-grittingly determined to make it to tonight's ACS meeting, so while I achieved nothing else today, I did get there to hear about the Square Kilometre Array and sundry side organisations and projects.

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