Do We Stay or Do We Go?

We were called back home because of a serious bushfire threat. All the way home on the drive from the city, a large smoke plume was visible. Luckily the plume indicated the fire was headed south, the opposite direction from our home.

At last, we made it home and sat on the ridge watching the fire burn [...]

A masterpiece of engineering and a work of art

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art – Leonardo da Vinci

Hell’s Fury

The warnings came a week in advance. Saturday Feb 7, 2009 would be the hottest day ever recorded in Victoria, dry wild winds would rage and fires would blister the landscape.

At 2pm on Saturday, the thermometer outside my home nestled in the forested mountains overlooking Melbourne registered 115 degrees (46.4 C). Winds whipped the window [...]

Pondering In My Backyard

“Logic moves in one direction, the direction of clarity, coherence and structure. Ambiguity moves in the other direction, that of fluidity, openness, and release. Mathematics moves back and forth between these two poles. [...] It is the interaction between these different aspects that gives mathematics its power.”
William Byers (How Mathematicians Think, Princeton University Press, 2007)

“Pure [...]

#! Crunchbang Wallpaper

Here’s my latest Crunchbang Linux wallpaper. I wanted to stay true to the mostly black default theme as well as ensuring there’s good space on the right side of a lengthy Conky configuration. The file can be downloaded from the #!Crunchbang wiki site.