I like watching things grow. My Bonsai plants are the ultimate home nurserypersons test of patience, skill and attention to detail. Bonsai plants are akin to swing voters, let the roots dry out once, and they die, soil too acidic, they wither, soil too alkaline, they wilt. Not enough fertilizer? They turn yellow and drop [...]

I wrote a blog earlier this week, that for some reason has disappeared… So here is a brief attempt to recapture the underlying intent: Essentially there is a research project that has originated in New Zealand to look at an open source and networked approach to solar energy generation and billing. That has turned into [...]

Yesterday, the Australian Reserve Bank increased the interest rate so I brought a bicycle, the first one I have owned since the age of 12, forty years ago.   What one has to do with the other is not immediately apparent.   Stewart Fisks (UK Independent) column today was about what we at Perceptric have [...]

Here is a handy little widget for checking how a prospective rise in sea levels will impact you and where you live – if you are on the coast of Australia. It enables you to choose from a drop down menu from a 1 metre through to a 14 metre rise in sea level. Of [...]