Author Archives: dgm

If you’ve been following my main, technical, blog, you’ll know that its not all computers, history and possible anglo saxon travellers chez Moncur, but that there’s a bit of relaxation as well, even if it’s predictably geeky and involves reading … Continue reading →

Universities: QUT, UQ and Griffith all have working webservers and are posting updates, as is JCU’s Brisbane campus. Anyone seeking information on these institutions should check their websites directly. USQ in Toowoomba is back up and running Cultural Institutions The … Continue reading →

Not surprisingly, the various institutions websites are very slow –  here is a summary of what I have been able to glean (updated 13/01/2011) Museums and Libraries Queensland state library – ground floors emptied. Picture at http://twitpic.com/3p7zbs : Closed today … Continue reading →

My mother, who died a couple of years ago just short of her ninetieth birthday would sometimes mention Basque refugees. This always seemed unlikely, as she was living in Montrose in Scotland, far away from the civil war in Spain. … Continue reading →

Normally, I track a few student newspapers, Varsity (Cambridge), Cherwell (Oxford) and the Stanford daily (Stanford) as every so often they pick up on something that I would otherwise have missed, and would possibly have tweeted. Well I’ve been a … Continue reading →