New Year's Eve at Manly

Goodbye 2009, here comes a great 2010.

Start of Surf Safari

Surf Safai starts, 8pm on Sunday night.
Here we are with the Volovo filled to the roof at Fraser St.

Christmas at Mabel St

Formal as requested by T, good food, good company, good day!

Nick Nicolal's farewell

Nice work Nick, 35 years at unimelb, if only the uni knew who they were losing...

Another day at the lab

It's kind of cool to have a job where you can come in and play with big powerful particle accelerators.

Christmas lunch river cruise

For the lab party we took a boat from the city to Williamstown to the Achoage restaurant.

No air on Metro

They might be rebadged, but there was no air circulation on the Metro run train into the city this evening. The windows were foggy and there was a smell of stale air with a hint of cigarette smoke in the carriage. Summer will be fun on these sealed trains...

Sophie and Chris say "I do"

At Rippon Lea Gardens Elsternwick.

TV News vans gather outside stinkatron

Media gather to get the dirt on board's visit to stinkatron.

Christmas tree at the lab

Hopefully the spirit of Christ will infuse this place...

431 km/h

We got up to 431 km/h (will post that photo later), certainly the fastest I've been along the ground!

Maglev train

After travelling with the prelariate yesterday and taking 5 hours to go 60 km, now I will go 30 km in 15 min at 430 km/h max to the airport in VIP class.

Me at 350 m

Ok, much the same as lower down...just a bit higher up.

My feet at 863 feet

Yes, those are my feet at 259 m above the street, and yes I am freaking out...

Oriental Perl Tower Shanghai

A rare clearish day is perfect for a last day of sight seeing in Shanghai.

Cardemon, chilli, duck tongue and goose

They say in China only your parents are not fair game when it comes to food.

Duck tongue entre

I'll try just about anything once...

So many shades of red

Good time to visit with the autumn colours.

Me and Chung Jie our guide

Everything organised and paid for by the lab :)

Rock gardens, water ways and coverd walkways

Nice places to sit and contemplate.

Keyhole archway to garden

Very asthetically appealing view.

Red autumn leaves

Beatiful garden view.

SuZhou - The Humble Administrator's Garden

A peace strole in the traditional gardens west of Shanghai.

Prom sunset

Great colours after the storm blew through.

Blown away by Seal

The Soul Tour in Melbourne. Seal, what a great muso.

RRR Party Hour

Rog, Archileas and me on RRR.

Susana's view from the Ming Wing

After much hassling of uni people, Susana has a desk in a shared office on leve 11 of the Ming Wing at Monash.

Sea view from Anglecrest

A great weekend surfing and socialising at Anglesea.

DAQ at the ODB coming together

Magnus andViliami hard at work.

Susana in sunset at Norman Park

golden minute

Mum and me at Fish Creek

Windy but nice.

Drs Boland at SRI09

First conference father and son have attended as delegates together. In the the past I was always just a family member on holidays.

Wurrunjura craetion story

The eagle dance.

Chris Henschke's art at SRI09

Central stage at the 680 delegate conference in Melbourne is Chris Henschke's timesliced impression of the strage ring.

Hand of Sabazius

Do we need one for the living room?

Slice you up I will

May the Force be with you!

MECC by night

Modern lines at night, nice calm and mild evening.

Ulf och jag pa Government house

Hej

SRI09 reception at Government House

David de Kretsa not here, but a good reception nonetheless.

The Nothing comes over Shoreham

Matt and all of us are about to get swollowed up by the Nothing as it sweeps across Mournington Peninsula.

Senior Management decides on 2010 schedule

Rohan and Mark's fast schedule is pondered over by Ian...

Caribbean sweet potato gratin

From the Moosewood Restaurant New Classics cookbook I got from Meg and Allan for my birthday, should be super yum!

OptiPortal teaching from Australian Synchrotron to Uni Melb

Rohan and I give students an introduction to accelerator physics prior to a part3 physics lab on our linac.

Black seasame seed icecream and creamcheese crepe

A perfect end to a great sushi meal at the bar with the master chef special for my birthday dinner with Susana and Dad.

Puddles: it's raining again

Here we are with some water again. Had to avoid these unfamiliar puddles walking to the bus this morning.

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Dr Boland...
On the move->

MSO at the Myer Music Bowl

Standing room only as the Melbourne Symphony play for free.

Blood red Moon due to fires

Roger's cluster moves to the AS

Roger's cluster is now generously locating his cluster at the Australian Synchrotron. Thanks Rog, Lachlan can now do some Mega GEANT simulation.