The Sydney Morning Herald had a front page story today about the proportion of students from non-English speaking background (particularly Chinese) in selective schools.
It provided an interesting case study on what is generally accepted as the best selective school in New South Wales, James Ruse Agricultural High School. The articles reported that approximately 90% […]
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As you may be aware, my family and I travelled to New Zealand for four days earlier this week. I’ve already placed the photos on photos.koinic.net, but here is my travelogue for the trip.
Day 1: Sydney—Auckland
The plane was late, due to the arrival of the new Airbus A380 at Sydney Airport that morning. […]
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Whilst packing for my trip, I found some random notes that I scribbled a long time ago about evangelism. It would appear to have been written in early 2003. For posterity I leave them here on this web log.
Note that I made no warranty on the soundness or otherwise of these notes. […]
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The following picture is self-explanatory, given my previous post.
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I have previously noted my enjoyment of
AFR BOSS, the monthly magazine of the Australian Financial Review.
The October 2005 issue on personality is particularly interesting. I know it’s a little bit late, but there are two articles about which I would like to comment. Perhaps it’s because I am one of those shy, […]
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Rank the following items in decreasing order of usefulness:
A Palm TX personal digital assistant, replacing a Palm m130
A Samsung 730BF 17 inch LCD monitor, with a 4 ms refresh rate, replacing a 17 inch CRT
A Canon PowerShot A620 ditigal camera, not replacing anything
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