Ahaha, take that russian database, I made an entry.

Adventure is the unexpected ( Read more... )

Guess what? I live ( Read more... )

News article well worth a read. Might make us all interested in unconsolidated sediments and strand-lines of sand suspiciously far inland...

Well, the year's drilling has started. So I am off bush for 2 weeks as of tomorrow, 10 a.m., which is a civilised time of day for flying.

This mooted flood levy to pay for the Queensland flood infrastructure rebuilding is creating a poisonous and hypocritical debate within Australia ( Read more... )

http://www.news.com.au/world/bug-mac-and-lovely-grub-food-of-the-future/story-e6frfkz9-1225993472537Read more... )

The Mayor of Brisbane, Campbell Newman, wants a judicial inquiry into the floods.

Obectives cited in the above article include;

Investigating the management of the dam, and its contribution to the flood, and why so much water was stored ahead of the wet season.This is ridiculous. I know that if I'm distracted and you put an apple in front of me ( Read more... )

Let me put the Brisbane floods in perspective with the drought in Perth.

Wivenhoe Dam is releasing 35 megalitres of water per second. This is a figure quoted by colleagues of my brother who work for SEQ Water.

Meanwhile, in Perth, we use around 1GL per day, in summer (link). So, in one minute, Wivenhoe Dam is spilling more than we use in a whole ( Read more... )

I am glad to see Sudan has begun a referendum on secession of the Christian south from the Muslim north. Its only been a massive shithole of war for 120 years, even the British had a hard slog of it in Victorian times ( Read more... )