If you or a friend have diabetes and you’ll be in Melbourne on the evening of the 23rd of February, I invite you to join me for cocktails and a chat in the city! YLC Victoria is a networking group for young adults with Type 1 diabetes, and they meet every 2 …
Another diabetes-related gadget. I often use the Freestyle Libre system for monitoring my glucose levels. But that’s not the gadget I’m talking about. The Libre has a sensor that’s attached to my arm for two weeks, and a reader that downloads from that sensor via NFC when it’s waved over it. …
Well actually it is. But Complete Failure is definitely not! In my previous work on computer systems and backup procedures, the complete failure of a data backup would mean a huge financial cost. But individual devices are always going to fail eventually, so we always designed the systems with redundancy …
This is the continuation of the travel log from parts 1 and 2. If you haven’t read them yet please start there! Day 10, Campbell Island Having arrived in the sheltered waters of Perseverance Harbour overnight, after breakfast we headed out in two groups for all-day activities (again with packed lunches). …
This is a continuation of the thread that started in part 1. If you haven’t read it yet, you should start there! We left Carnley Harbour on “Day 5”. The next day was spent at sea heading towards Macquarie Island. Day 7 Macquarie Island is administered by Tasmania, and the …
In December 2016 LuminOdyssey are running another photography workshop tour to some of the World-Heritage-listed subantarctic islands south of New Zealand. Like some of our other workshops, we will be travelling on a ship with other tourists. In this case the ship (Heritage Expeditions‘ Spirit of Enderby) carries almost 50 passengers, of …
Finally our July 2016 Arctic photo workshop tour is open for bookings. All the details can be downloaded in a small PDF (1.2 MB). There are early-bird discounts for bookings made this month, so check it out!
