Sirdan and his mum at Chinese Whisper
Bit of a special Sunday lunch, as Sirdan’s mother is over from South Africa.
She enjoyed our Surry Hills food.
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- GapMinderI mentioned in So how’s your course at Yale going? a “brilliant animated presentation in the lecture of global economic developments from the early 19th century to the present showing in just twelve seconds the fortunes of the major world states.” This will give you some idea: Situation in 1800 Situation in 2007. The big [...]
- Mother Ninglun’s Almanack for the 2010s: 2Under this somewhat facetious heading appear posts (of dubious authority) on such things as globalisation and the future — looking at our new decade. My Yale course and non-fiction reading feed into this series. One globalisation process we — you reading and me writing this — are enthusiastically embracing with our blogs and Facebooks and [ […]
- Gratuitous picture postEven though I do have a photo blog I will from time to time grace this blog with a picture or two. But by 1 pm… Posted in Australia, photo post, Surry Hills
- So how’s your course at Yale going?Really well, thanks. It’s just my kind of course: no papers to write, no homework, no exams. The only downside was downloading 1.6 gig of video lectures. Yes, I ended up downloading the lot, and that takes patience on Unwired where download speeds vary from 14k to 110k a second. Initially I had downloaded just [...]
- Stats: Neil’s second decade, Floating Life, English/ESLYes, this blog is not immune from my obsession. This blog Only been going for a week, but has had 480 views so far. (All stats are from WordPress.) Floating Life 74,358 views in 2009. In 2008 there were 78,823 but most of the difference comes from September 08 when I scored a record 11,781. See also Blogging [...]
- Welcome in the 2010s!Happy New Year from Surry Hills NSW Posted in events
- Enjoy free internet news while you can… (updated 7pm)This is something that may see a lot of change in the coming decade. Today’s Sydney Morning Herald is a trifle thin, as is the wont at this time of year, but it does have quite a lot of interest in it. Like everyone I am giving thought to what motivates people like the young Nigerian [...]
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