Something everyone should do is to spend some time browsing the website of the [url=http://www.copyright.org.au/]Australian Copyright Council[/url] There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding by the general public about exactly how copyright works in Australia and exactly what you are and are not allowed to do in regards to copying things. They have some … [Read More »]

While ego surfing, errr, checking Google to make sure my new site is showing up properly (honest !!), I came across a new Simon Hampel in the world… On a web page from the British-based Scientific Exploration Society (SES): Simon Hampel: Archaeologist by degree, broker by trade and expeditioner by day. After several years extensive … [Read More »]

You may have noticed the new URL to access by blog. I decided to rearrange things a little on my site and make things a bit more consistant. It’s a bit of a pain because search engine links will be broken until they get to re-index my site… but I have put redirect files in … [Read More »]

[url=http://www.jhu.edu/%7Ejhumag/0299web/degree.html]Degrees of Difficulty[/url] [quote]What is the most difficult instrument to master? Cosmological conundrum to crack? We asked a half dozen Johns Hopkins experts to share the biggest challenge of their discipline.[/quote] From the Johns Hopkins Magazine, a publication of the Johns Hopkins University.

Graeme Philipson from the Sydney Morning Herald wrote an article titled Copyright distorts the market A brief extract: There’s been a lot of coverage lately about music being downloaded from the internet. This has been going on for years but now the Recording Industry Association of America has given the matter a much higher profile … [Read More »]