Frangipani branch tip with very small leaves.jpg The magic frangipani made it through its second winter. Almost three weeks ago, in fact, I noticed that the leaves had started to unfurl, and a little bit of me unfurled too. I took the photo there and then, on 21 March, but it sat in the camera until today and the trunk sat in the passage-way un...

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Stupid, I know, to resume blogging with a nerdy Skype tip, but this is handy. I wanted to print a chat,1 but couldn’t find a way to do so. Then I read at the Skype forum that you just type /htmlhistory where you would normally type text into the chat, and it opens the chat in a Browser window. F...

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Great headlines of our times:

Er ... last time I checked, rocking a cradle calmed down the occupants.

Copenhagen, Denmark 12 March 2009

Following a successful International Scientific Congress Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions attended by more than 2,500 delegates from nearly 80 countries, preliminary messages from the findings were delivered by the Congress' Scientific Writing...

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21 September 2017: A bilious despatch from an international conference in preparation for the 2009 conference of the UNFCCC.

Boffins are worrying that when Australian farmers can sell carbon sequestration, they might prefer to earn more doing that than growing wheat. That will increase the world p...

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