Charli's Dance Adventures (David: June 29, 2009 9:49 PM)
Charli and her partner Nick have returned from the National Capital DanceSport Championships with a few trophies in their hand luggage: they scored a 4th, a 3rd, a 2nd and a first place in only their second competitive outing on the floor. Photos and more as they comes to hand (and the iPod Touch holds off jumping the gun with another empty blog post!)
Is The 'Digital Dark Age' Mainstream Yet? (David: April 20, 2009 11:12 PM)
Many more more people are waking up about the looming 'Digital Dark Age' - the Sydney Morning Herald warns of a cultural 'black hole' spanning the mid-90s up to about now, where most of our memories are being archived on volatile media that might not survive.
Again, the main problem is that none of the media on which we currently choose to store our data (read: memories) is able to last more than 10 years or so. If I were investing in technology ventures in the medium term, I'd be looking to archival technologies that will let us Generation Xers show and tell Generation X+3 what the sea levels looked like before the Great Warming and Innundation of 2012.
Future historians will be better informed about the back catalogue of New Kids On The Block than The Backstreet Boys. Sobering thought.
And, speaking from personal experience - BACK STUFF UP! PRINT THE IMPORTANT STUFF OUT on ARCHIVAL QUALITY PAPER AND INK! NOW! You can't afford to lose those memories, even if some of it lives on perishable optical disks for a time. If your disk crashes, you will have some explaining to do to both future and current generations.
Any ideas on what the next wave is? Should we go back to stone? That's the only thing that seems to last, at least, according to Time Team.
<voice="Mal Garvin"> Or maybe, just maybe, our memories are best stored in the lives of others - they can be heard as echoes of the laughter of those who share stories of us when we're long, long gone. Where do you store YOUR treasures? It makes you think. </voice>
Caleb and (new partner) Olivia have been featured on the main page of 'Online Danceline' following their successful debut at the Metropolitan Championships on the weekend.
Great photo - and great results for their first comp - two first places, two seconds. See it here (for a limited time)
Spending Your Savings (David: April 6, 2009 11:20 AM)
Only a few weeks to go before WA votes on the final, yes definitely, never again referendum on whether to keep observing Daylight Savings after its three year trial.
The ABC has set up a useful site to explain how the previous referenda were split, and general opinion is that while Perth is split, the farmers don't like it.
I was surveyed about it recently - judging by the questions, there seems to be a perception that a yes vote these days is more based on business needs than a pressing urge to get to the beach after work every day. For that reason, I think there's now some pressing need to get WA in line with the rest of the country.
However, given that the recent elections in WA established that the country folk carry more than a little electoral clout these days, I predict another NO vote.
The SHEAP Website receives a new lease of life today, hot on the heels of today's Parliamentary Forum. Join it, or Facebook, to keep in touch with the latest.
Maths Rules The Universe (David: February 19, 2009 4:05 PM)
New Scientist has a great article on a topic close to my heart - Mathematics: The only true universal language - which speculates that were we to meet with extra-terrestrial beings, we'd be better off talking to each other in the language of numbers, rather than letters.
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More 'Hurlstone In The News'
im just in year 7 but i already luv the school, i have no idea wat you guys are saying about mr kidd, but still, i luv the school even if everything is too big and im a little shorty
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how can you be so idiotic? Would you rather the education of hundreds be crushed as roaring trucks and building machines go on through the school for at least a deacade?! You do realise that if the la...
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The Top 10 Reasons For Selling Hurlstone's Farm
That is completely selfish! Selling land just so some people can earn some money. What about student education? Doesn't that matter? For an agricultural school to be situated in surburban sydney, it c...
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