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DrupalCon Austin - Drupal Trivia Scores
Many of the DrupalCon Trivia teams appear to have had rivalries (or actual feuds) with teams on tables nearby, as I've had a lot of people ask where they finished in relation to another team.To help...
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2014 DrupalCon Austin Road Trip
It's been nearly two years since I blogged a DrupalCon road trip, so it's high time for another one. Not that there weren't other DrupalCons in between, but the trip to Sydney was rather short. And...
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iPhotography Widget
A while ago, I was contacted by MobileZap, a reseller of mobile phone accessories and asked if I was interested in reviewing an iPhone zoom lens attachment. Unfortunately the widget only attached to...
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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
I trek out to a fairly dark sky site on the odd Friday evening to partake of some amateur astronomy at an observatory in the Dandenong ranges.A few weeks ago, we decided to have a go at locating what...
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Exploring the solar system
At last week's telescope driver training I found out that Melbourne contains a 1 to 1 billion scale model of the solar system. It's an artwork by Cameron Robbins and Christopher Lansell.The Sun is...
View ArticleSocial! Space! Western Australia!
A few weeks ago I noticed a retweet by ESA, asking for expression of interest from space enthusiasts to attend and social-media (verb) the inauguration of a new antenna at their New Norcia deep...
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Accidental Space Tourist - SocialSpaceWA
Like many people, I love the beautiful images we receive from space telescopes and spacecraft that orbit other worlds in the solar system. Also like many other people, I expect, I never really stop to...
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Southern Exposure
From time to time you see photos pop up on the internet that show off bits of the northern sky. A good example is a montage of the Moon and Andromeda that show what size Andromeda would be in the sky,...
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Astrophotography with Mac OS X
It's been a good three years now since I swapped my HP laptop for a Macbook Pro. In the mean time, I've started doing a bit more astrophotography and of course the change of operating system has...
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Dark Doodad
It's been a while since I did a blog, so after twiddling the way the front page of the site displays, it's time to post a new one. The attached photo is of my favourite dark nebula, "The Dark Doodad"....
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