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Gave an address at the Melbourne Unitarian Church on Sunday on Reverend Stephen Fritchman, a radical liberal in the U.S. who caused a great deal of trouble for the political establishment during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. On a vaguely related topic I found myself debating on [livejournal.com profile] convert_me last week with astrologers, of all people. Intrigued to discover that some of that ilk now claim (or rather, admit as the statistics and science is beyond reasonable doubt) that it has no predictive value whatsoever, but rather can only be used as a metaphorical and instrospective approach. So, after all those centuries it is finally acknowledged to be fiction.

Last Saturday the deco-apartment of Das Hoehnhauss/Casa di Lafayette held a champagne breakfast with various teas, Timorese coffee, lots of pancakes, almond shortbread, silverware and fine china. In attendence were [livejournal.com profile] caseopaya's new workmate and partner along with [livejournal.com profile] imajica_lj. We're hoping to turn this into a semi-regular event as it's a delightful way to waste away a Saturday morning and most of an afternoon and catch up with a small group of people as well. We're gradually building a list of people to come along, but if anyone is particularly keen to attend in the next couple, please drop a line below.

Work-related matters have been quite busy of late and we've been somewhat short-staffed. Upgrading the dual-core Opteron systems to quad-cores on Tango is a necessity if we wish to reach at least somewhere close to the c7 Teraflop peak but (as one would expect) it hasn't entirely been smooth sailing. On a completely different tangent, I've been investigating the relative competitive benefits of Drupal vs Plone CMSs for ARCS. Having some experience with both does lead me towards the former for the sake of simplicity, but I'm interested to hear contrary views.

Date: 2008-05-05 07:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] txxxpxx.livejournal.com
Your champagne breakfast sounds delightful. Very much in line with the High Tea events we do occassionally, only in the morning...with alcamahol. Mmmmm.

Looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks at Chez Pop. Menu is underway & not at all what I was expecting, but I think it should be nice all the same.

:)

Date: 2008-05-05 07:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
Exactly. Shall we see you this Saturday morning?

Date: 2008-05-05 07:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] txxxpxx.livejournal.com
Hmmm, thanks for the offer. Mr Pxx is currently studying so I need to see what his homework schedule is like. Can I get back to you in the morning?

Date: 2008-05-05 07:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
Sure can. I just sent an email invite as well.

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