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On visiting Vanuatu

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I’m going to be visiting my old friend Dan in Vanuatu next month. He’s thoughtfully provided some tips for me (or any other visitor who might go there):

First set of tips Second set of tips

It looks like I [...]

Farewell, San Francisco

Murals in Balmy Street, the Mission District, San Francisco.

I left San Francisco on Tuesday full of burrito and Bi-Rite icecream and arrived in Melbourne Thursday to be greeted by a family crisis that has basically managed to erase any cheerful feelings I might have felt about being home. I’m also suffering from a [...]

Dopplr vs TripIt: web 2.0 travel sites compared

I’ve been using Dopplr for a while now, and recently got an invitation code for TripIt. Both are web 2.0 social networking websites for travellers, and a lot of people have been talking about them in relation to each other, so I thought I’d post a quick review of both of them.

Dopplr

Dopplr is [...]

At BlockCamp

I’m at BarCampBlock in Palo Alto, and things are just about to kick off. More coverage to follow!

Maritime Museum

So, the San Francisco Maritime Museum isn’t that great, but I do like this photo.

This week has been rather insane. I’ll try and post something substantial as soon as I slow down.

The further you travel…

… the more Melbourne trams you find. Or something.

Trolleypup took me for a tour of San Francisco’s historic trolley collection, including this poor old girl — a Melbourne W2 class tram, like the ones I used to catch to school in the 80s, just before they were decommissioned. Flickr set here. [...]

Wiki Wednesday: Yoz Grahame on “Folk Logic”

[ Not quite live-blogged from Wiki Wednesday at Citizen Space; I took notes live, then kind of cleaned them up. ]

Yoz Grahame is apparently my long-lost twin, at least judging by the violence of my nodding all through his talk.

He launched his talk on “Folk Logic” — how people learn to [...]

In which Infotropism becomes a travel log

I’m in San Francisco, playing tourist. Expect more photos and travel diary interspersed with the usual stuff over the next few weeks.

The above is one of the murals on the wall of Clarion Alley in the Mission District. You can see a representation of the alleyway itself in the human figure in [...]

The Tyranny of Distance: Part 2

Another couple of reasons why it sucks to be an Australian geek. The first article covered the high costs of bandwidth, hardware, technical books, and everything associated with domain registration and hosting. Now let’s talk geography.

1. What time is it, again?

Timezones are the first problem. When I’m at work, the US [...]

Things I Wish I’d Known About Relocating

I’ve been thinking for a while about what advice I’d give people wanting to relocate internationally for work. I’ve done it twice now for myself (from Australia to Canada and then back again), and each time it’s pretty much been a lesson in what not to do. So I thought I’d record [...]