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More pontification on alcohol at conferences

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Christopher Neugebauer

This post started off as a reply to a comment (by “Alan”) on my previous post on this topic, but it got a bit long-winded, and raised a few clarifications of my own viewpoints on this matter. So it’s turned … Continue reading →

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CRUST PIZZA USES FAKE MEAT

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Christopher Neugebauer

According to their ingredients listing, which is available from their website, Crust Pizza use flavour-enhanced meat. For those who can’t read it, their “bacon” contains: Pork (93%), Water, Salt, Mineral Salts (451, 450), Sugars (Sucrose, Dextrose (Maize)), Antioxidant (316), Sodium … Continue reading →

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AUC /dev/world/2009 and its consequences for the Open Source development community

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Christopher Neugebauer

AUC /dev/world/2009, the Apple University Consortium’s annual student (and university staff) developer conference was held this week in Canberra. DevWorld goes for two days, and consisted (this year) of about 90 enthusiastic Apple developers learning about popular Mac technologies. This … Continue reading →

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The Gruen Transfer (and car parks etc)

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Christopher Neugebauer

Last Friday, whilst in Sydney on a short trip, I had the fortune of being asked to go ice skating with a bunch of people from USyd. This required me to visit a large suburban shopping mall. Whilst the ice … Continue reading →

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On Public Transport

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Christopher Neugebauer

Russell Coker writes on the comparison of costs of Public Transport as compared with that of using a car. I see two key flaws with his argument: Firstly, the costs of travel that he uses are fairly specific to Melbourne, … Continue reading →

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