Michael Paine - Sydney Australia

17 May 05: Email virus alert - someone has a virus that is spewing out emails with a false sender address.  My address (mpaineATtpgi.com.au) is being used at times. These emails are NOT originating from me and there is nothing I can do about it. Update June 06: I have nothing to do with an email circulating about cats and dogs in China that seems to be [falsely] using my email address as the sender. Please ensure your computer has an active virus checker to stop this sort of thing (and switch to Mac!).

Automotive Safety

• Vehicle Design and Research Pty Limited engineering consultancy
• Road Safety Web links
• Publications and reports - road safety and science (52K PDF)

Astronomy & Science

• Australian Spaceguard Survey - the search for asteroids and comets which might threaten the Earth.
• Tsunami from asteroid impacts - plus Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and risk to Sydney from tsunami.
  
• Index to my "Rocks in space" series of articles.
• The Planetary Society Australian Volunteers
• Science Conjecture - life on Mars and other topical science issues
• Greenhouse gases and climate change - links and news
•  Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit from the book Demon Haunted World and Carl Sagan's warning about the reptile within us
• Perpetual Motion and the Big Wither.

PCs & Internet

• PCs and the Year 2000+ old news but still interesting.
• Australian Open Access User Group  - DOS software users group with all sorts of PC tips and tricks - with a dig at Windows and a tips page for Apple Mac OS X.
  
• TPG - my commercial service provider
• A quick introduction to HTML
• World Clock - (external) current times around the world
  

Hobbies & local issues

• Member of OzGreen (East Timor project) and Manly Friends of Oecusse
• GEMFIND mapping shareware for Australian gemstone fossickers and Darwin's Natural Selection - simple, dynamic illustration of natural selection at work (competition for limited resouces) 
• Red Hill Preservation Society
• Warringah's Environmental Hotspots
• Urban Villages, SEPP5 retirement villages, Warringah's new LEP. "It would be unfair to leeches to compare them with the legal  profession, because leeches do not drain their victims dry" -  from a letter to my local paper following the revelation that legal costs of a spat between two Warringah Councillors had exceeded $1 million.
• Australian Snow Statistics for skiers
• Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia - magnificant scenery, geology and astronomy.
• Looking for one of the best Australian TV dramas - "Heartland" with Cate Blanchett and Ernie Dingo? It was re-marketed in North America as "Burned Bridge" and is available on Region-free DVD from CD Universe. Brilliant performances from Cate and Ernie. Update 5 Jan 08: Burned Bridge now on Sydney Digital TV Ch 44 at 2pm weekdays.
• My 1974 Engineering Thesis



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Last update 16 Dec 2008.  Started in 1996.
email: mpaine aT tpgi.com.au
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