Well you may remeber several montjhs ago, I posted a copy of my letter to the ANZ indicating my displeasure in their financing of the Tasmanian pulpmill. I think it is only fair to now congratulate them on their decision NOT to finance the pulpmill ( Read more... )

Well, if you've seen the Festo Air-Ray, here is the latest Bio-mechanical design exercise from this company the Air-Jelly

Both this and the Air-Ray are fantastic flights of fancy and engineering and would look great in any fantasy/sci-fi flick :-)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Came across this on 'ecogeek.org'

Its a bit long and complex but sounds absolutely fascinating :-)

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/227

An interesting link to a photographic exhibition which tries to illustrate consumerism called 'Running the Numbers'

http://www.chrisjordan.com/

.... the witch is dead :-)

Here is an interesting take on Pascal's theorem for the existence of God but applied to Climate change (no its not a conspiracy to turn enviromentalism into a religion ;-)

Anyhow - I liked it so here it is :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI

Well that was a quick response (with phone number !! - feel free to call ;-)they must be getting a lot of enquiries. Interesting that they put in a note regarding their reliance on an independent set of principles to base their decision on.

Will be interesting to keep track of the progress of this.

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It occurs to me that if the average Australian mortgage is about $300,000 and the cost of the Gunn's mill is about $1.8 billion, it would only take 6,000 average customers to take their business away from ANZ to offset any gain they would have from investing in the mill ( Read more... )

Well we are back in hospital again. Margaret suffered a recurrence of the Post Partal Haemorrage she suffered on Tuesday. This time they operated and hopefully fixed it for good. It means we will be in hospital for the weekend and we apologise for our non attendance/non communication over the following days ( Read more... )

Margaret and I are pleased to announce the arrival of 'Victoria Edith' our daughter. Born on Sunday the 16th of September at 6.59am, after a 56 hour labour (of love - and pain) and weighing 7 pounds 5 ounces (3,338 grams ( Read more... )