HPC Training in Sydney, Other Activities and LJ/DW Suggestions

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In what has become almost routine, I spent a couple of days in Melbourne for the weekend and then left for Sydney to run another round of HPC training at the University of Sydney and the Westmead Millennium Institute. There were some researchers from the latter group who particularly switched on, along with some senior members of the institute in attenence. Overall the classes went very well with the opportunity to add in some new content, especially with a greater variety of options for PBS job arrays. Further HPC training in Sydney will happen next week, in part at Sydney University in part at Macquarie University's Institute for Health Innovation.

Whilst interstate wrote an review on the latest album from The Charlatans, which isn't great; it should be on The Dwarf soon. Today attended Daniel Jitnah's presentation on virtualisation at LUV, which provided a good (and critical) summary of some the major issues and a few biting remarks concerning the marketing of virtualisation, cloud, etc. Afterwards we went to dinner with Brendan E. and parents at the ever-reliable Punjabi Cafe; good food and conversation. It was the second weekend in succession that we've visited Brendan; last weekend he entertained with the delightfully violent John Wick and the Battle of the Five Armies/.

The Isocracy Network has a new article from peristaltor entitled Whatever Happened to Henry George?, and I've recently had an email exchange with reporter Tom Elliot on a rather incorrect piece of his journalism, complaining how young people are socialists, which ipso facto means Stalinism. Whilst on the topic of LJ/DW I recently submitted a suggestion to both sites for an improvement; a "Current Reading" option to go with "Mood/Location/Music". How damned sensible would that be?

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Whilst on the topic of LJ/DW I recently submitted a suggestion to both sites for an improvement; a "Current Reading" option to go with "Mood/Location/Music". How damned sensible would that be?

It would not be sensible at all, since I suspect the "MLM" thing is probably there to cross-promote recording industry products, not reflect the listening of authors. "Current Reading" includes, let's face it, far too many "products" that are no longer covered by copyright, and are therefore not technically profitable.

(I can be so cynical sometimes.)

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I actually listed that as a potential disadvantage and, as a potential advantage for sociologists and social psychologists. Wouldn't it make a fascinating dataset to see what correlations mood has with location, reading, and music?