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One day, when I was in Bangkok, I looked over the edge of the Skytrain walkway near Asoke station. Traffic was snarled as usual, and as always in Bangkok it was disciplined in an anarchic way, ie there are rules … Continue reading →

We’re just back after three weeks in steamy monsoonal Thailand, and yes, we had a great time. This wasn’t a serious trip, we spent most of the time swimming, snorkelling and doing other human things. It was most definitely un … Continue reading →

Back in November I blogged about my mother’s admittedly tenuous connection with Basque refugees and the Spanish civil war. Today’s Guardian brings news of unfinished business: Spanish civil war victims’ bodies finally removed from mass grave Scottish anarchist in legal … Continue reading →

Twitter has recently brought news that AIATSIS’s digital preservation program is to be cut. This is unfortunate to say the least. AIATSIS was engaged in digitising the cultural patrimony of the first cultures to inhabit Australia, and in the process … Continue reading →

More fall out from the Epsilon data breach – this time it’s Dell Australia: An Important Message from Dell Australia Dell’s global email service provider, Epsilon, recently informed us that their email system was exposed to unauthorised entry. As a … Continue reading →

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 →