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After the e-Research Symposium we had a couple of days spare to explore Dunedin's surrounds. Took the opportunity to visit the end of the Otago peninsula which has a Royal Albatross colony, co-existing with some Victorian-era fortifications (the NZers were worried at the time that the Russians were going to invade). Day after that took the Taieri Gorge (it was gorgeous, haha) railway. On the final night went to see My Afternoons with Margueritte, a rather charming film (Gérard Depardieu plays the role very well) at the slightly garishly deco-restored Rialto. Later in the evening caught the overnight coach to Christchurch; the temperature dropped to -2 degrees and the driver eschewed the heater option. Finally boarding the plane to 6.45am I fell asleep before takeoff.

Back in Melbourne the first two major events was conducting two intensive HPC training courses for a small group (c16) researchers; repeats of those courses that I ran two weeks prior. A surprising degree of existing experience in the introductory course led that to finish quite quickly; the intermediate course however is quite grueling, starting with some more advanced Linux commands, regular expressions, scripting, sed/awk, more on Torque/Maiu, and some basic MPI compiling.

Tuesday night was the monthly LUV meeting. Whilst the two talks and discussion were excellent, unfortunately the normal notification for the meeting didn't go out and as a result attendance was unusually low (about 20). The meal afterwards at Maria's Trattoria is worthy of mention; best gnocchi I have ever had. On other Linux-related matters, currently posting from BarCamp Geelong which has proven to be an excellent event. Earlier this morning gave a presentation on The Competitive Advantage of Linux (ODP, notes included).

Date: 2011-07-09 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fluffyblanket.livejournal.com
That sounds marvellous ! I love Art Deco and I'm delighted that you have so much in the Southern Hemisphere . My uncle lives in Geelong .

Date: 2011-07-09 06:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
Two of the the best art deco towns in the world are probably Napier and Hastings in the North Island. Dunedin, on the other hand, has a very magnificent collection of Victorian, Noveau, Deco and Edwardian buildings. Very much worth visiting, I assure you!

Does your uncle use Linux, or do you think he would be interested?

Date: 2011-07-09 07:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fluffyblanket.livejournal.com
Unfortunately , I've lost contact with him . We used to exchange art calendars at Christmas but he moved and the new peole at the house didn't respond to my queries . Sic transit gloria mundi ...

Date: 2011-07-09 09:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
Send me a private message. I might be able to help you find him....

Date: 2011-07-09 05:08 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Cheers Lev, I enjoyed getting along to LUV to give the talk, would have stayed for the meal but I've just moved house & still finishing unpacking last week.

Hope the BarCamp goes well, and maybe it will indeed lead to a GLUG ;)

-- Pat S.

Date: 2011-07-09 06:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
Thanks Pat! It really was a great talk, and I may bug you one day to write up a short text version for "you know where".

Date: 2011-07-10 12:41 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
just by the by, it's "otago," "rialto," and "larnach."

- evil free market guy, who lived in dunedin for a year and, thank goddess, escaped.

Date: 2011-07-10 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
Cheers. That's what I get for not spell-checking, Fixed now.

Dunedin is a great place in my opinion, having been there about five times now...

Date: 2011-07-11 12:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
Apropos to being an "evil free market guy", do take the time to check out mutualism - defined as "free market anti-capitalism".

http://mutualist.blogspot.com/

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