Michael Paine - Sydney AustraliaRed dust at sunrise

      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 for spam. 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!).

      Discoveries

      Automotive Safety

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

      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 + Tsunami Survival Guide for Australian coastal communities
      • 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

      • Madly Daily - spoof on our "local" newspaper
      • 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. 
      • 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

        •   Note that http://users/tpg.com.au/mpaine/  now works as well as the www4 address

         
         

        Last update 16 Dec 2008.  Started in 1996.
        email: mpaine aT tpgi.com.au
        Background: Voyager image of Jupiter - NASA