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It is interesting to compare the spending on education and defence for various countries. Japan spends 7.5 times more on education than on its defence.

I’m interested to know how your math lesson was today. I’m not necessarily talking about the math lesson you had in some classroom – you can also learn mathematics in: an informal discussion with a friend while doing your assignment/homework while doing a Web-based tutorial while searching the internet for answers to specific questions while [...]

I enjoyed the short film “Tokyo Blues”, about the popularity of jazz music in Japan. The film was made by my friend Craig McTurk. Craig lived in Japan while making the movie in the late 1990s. The movie traces the development of jazz through its introduction from the US in the 1920s (when Tokyo and [...]

It’s been a “fun” month – NOT. Virus problems Fried HDD Website hosting problems I mentioned recently I was about to throw a few computers out the window. It really has been a stressful – and time wasting – few weeks. I enjoy messing on computers – but not fixing dumb things that are caused [...]

My first foray into commercially hosted websites was when I started to move my Interactive Mathematics site off our institution’s server about 18 months ago. I took the recommendation of a colleague and bought space on GlobeDomain.com’s servers. At first, things went well. The support (by a couple of Indian guys) was excellent and they [...]

After all the hassle and wasted time of viruses on 2 computers, I sat down to catch up on a mountain of jobs. I turned on the computer and “pphht” – accompanied by a burning smell. Uh oh – not good. After some elimination, I realised it was the Maxtor HDD. It was still under [...]

25th April is the day that Australians and New Zealanders commemorate a military loss – the debacle of the First World War battle at Gallipoli. The ANZACs (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) were doing what they often have to do – fight other people’s wars in other people’s countries. On 25th April 1915, the [...]