With interviews completed, I am down to the last few thousand words to complete my MHEd thesis, and thus my sixth degree which means it should be ready by the end of this month and hopefully the final draft by mid-December. After this, I have to deal with degree number seven which I've been doing in the London School of Economics. Currently halfway ( Read more... )

In the past several days I've been working on numerous writing projects. which is not so unusual for me. The first is a compilation of transcript and notes from my presentation at the University of New South Wales on cryogenic electron microscopy. The second is an article for Isocracy on a "parliamentary path" for the abolition of economic classes ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago the Premier of New South Wales resigned when it was discovered that they were under investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The conservative media and the Prime Minister took the opportunity to attack the ICAC, describing it as "a real problem". Of course, the Prime Minister has been resisting for years the ( Read more... )

From the very beginning, the Australian Prime Minister has tried to argue that we should "live with the virus". Recently he has been crowing and gaslighting at the same time, claiming that we are able to do so. It's gaslighting because when he said it (16/07/2020) there was no vaccine. Make no mistake, he wanted us "to live alongside the virus and ( Read more... )

At midnight tonight Melbourne opens up, somewhat, having reached a 70% double-dosed vaccination level; really I we need about 90%+. I am not particularly comfortable with this given that there are currently over 20,000 active cases in Victoria, compared to just over 5,000 in New South Wales. One can simply urge people to be careful, be cautious, ( Read more... )

Earlier this week attended part of eResearchAustralAsia presented on "Streamlined Workflow from Instrument to HPC". It was mostly about cryo-electron microscopy, and specifically dealing with the enormous data transfers required and the fine-tuning of software to for the complex steps required to build a three-dimension protein model. SBGrid is a ( Read more... )

As is often the case, RPG Review is late - even given that this issue is a double-issue (51-52) covering the more prosaic aspects of life; food, buildings, and clothing, which of course is often overlooked in RPG games or worse still, with Anglo-American contemporary styles transplanted to a quasi-medieval fantasy setting. I will admit being ( Read more... )

A good portion of this weekend has been spent updating my article for the Polish Journal of Aesthetics on "Bullshit Art", where I target my pet loathing of "Abstract Expressionism". Funded by the CIA as a successful weapon against Socialist Realism (bullshit is more powerful than lies), it attracted a movement of immature and individualistic ( Read more... )

The past week has consisted of days dedicated to the Otago University HEDC Symposium, three days of teaching workshops (Introduction to Linux and HPC, Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting, and, tomorrow From Spartan to Gadi). So far everything is doing well. Also doing well is my interviews for online learning tools, a field that has become all the ( Read more... )

There has been much media coverage of Victoria's earthquake a couple of days ago, the largest in the state since European settlement. At 5.9 on the Richter Scale and not too far from the town of Mansfield, some 200km from Melbourne, it was a huge issue for us city dwellers much less than the media made of it it. A lot scarier for the miners that ( Read more... )