- This is my personal blogger site. For my professional activities, please see my engineering web site. I am also the Greens Candidate for Leichhardt in 2025.
Other information: Technical Resume, Volunteering.
- My causes:
- FNQ Hospital Foundation Cardiac Challenge 333km Cairns to Cooktown Ride: I completed the ride for the 14th time in 2024 with supporter rewards.
And now I am participating in the 2025 effort (and there is again a supporter reward)! - The Smith Family charity supports tens of thousands of school students in its learning for life program (but more support is needed);
- I'm trying to become better at engineering;
- Interested in a smarter & fairer Australia, and not a dumber & more cruel Australia, so I am a member of the Greens (QLD branches)
- Student Prizes at JCU
- My technology startup experience reinforced my understanding of the importance of education and so I set up some JCU student prizes: Don Close Prize in Software Engineering, John Ridd prize in mathematics, and Bev Frangos prize in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Personal notes on engineering and science in society
- Search link for ashtanga yoga sequences
- Problem Solving (initial list of resources)
- Fun:
- HiFi Design (every engineer seems to do this);
- Engineer's Guide to Cats (P Klusman & TJ) and An Engineer's Guide to Cats 2.0 - The Sequel;
- The Truth About Bender’s Brain from IEEE Spectrum "Microchips that shook the world";
- Unix Computing
- An early (large) DSP program (used in sonar based cane harvester height sensing)
- And the first few items here...
