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Brisbane cultural institutions and the floods – an update

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

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Brisbane cultural institutions and the floods

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

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Basque happenstance

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

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Things I should have seen but missed

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

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Film cameras …

Remember film? Well on a whim I dug out all my old film cameras – a Zenit B a Vivitar SLR – now old and tempremental a Fed 5B an Olympus trip a pentax Espio and embarassingly most of them … Continue reading

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