House Matters, eResearch, Frankfurt

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Tonight we leave for Europe for a month (it took me a few minutes to pack). Our wonderful housesitter, Janie G., has arrived and familiarised herself with the environment. She has already proven her weight in gold by a timely discover of a resisentialist event; a water pipe on the second floor has burst, dripping through the ceiling plaster. That's going to be annoying and probably expensive to repair.

Currently at eResearchAustralasia, former co-worker Andrew Underwood is giving a very high-level keynote on artificial intelligence work at Dell. In the afternoon I'll be presenting on Spartan with a a further lightning presentation later on. The conference itself reminds a lot of Questnet, insofar there's big vendor input and a little light on the technical level.

Edit: Presentation went extremely well for such a short talk. Engaged and interested audience with a good turnout with people from several institutions expressing great interest on what we have done and considering adopting our model for their future implementations.

Appropriate for the Europe journey, I have joined The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy. The good folk at the Institut für Sozialforschung have done some searching for me for works by Frederich Pollock. The following morning will be visiting the Frankfurt Center for Scientific Computing, who have gotten back to me. I have managed to list several places that we should visit at each city in this whirlwind tour.

Comments

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Wow that's amazing that Janie found that leak for you! How awful that would have been if there was catastrophic damage while you were away.

I hope that you have such a wonderful trip!

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Yes the timing before the trip was certainly good luck.

Trip so far has been very good! About to post about it..

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Enjoy Europe!

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Amazingly, it is my first visit. For a person who is deeply interested in European history and of course social and political theory it is almost downright odd that I haven't been yet.

The biggest concern is that I might decide to return on a more permanent basis. :)