I'm an Australian, based in the Washington, DC, area of the United States. I spend a lot of time there with Jasmine, Australia's best-known speedsolver of the Rubik's Cube. Prior to the US, Jasmine and I were based in London, UK. We have also lived previously in the United States and Australia.

I have worked for an Australian business rules and compliance company since 1999 in Australia, the US and the UK. I have also lectured in IT and Law related topics at King's College, London, and at The Australian National University.

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These are a few of my favourite links:
- Jasmine's site
- Jasmine's blog
- Mikal
- Daveydweeb
- Beth
- Lyn
- Doug
- Marissa
- Lisaloha
- David (Greenomics)
- Paul's Ramblings (music)

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Edvard Munch's The Scream as graffiti

Here's a photo I just found going through some images on my computer. I took the photo in Oslo, Norway, in September 2005. I thought the idea of a graffiti depiction of The Scream was pretty cool.

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Ikea fine dining and baby-sitting

Spiegel Online has an interesting article about Ikea's German stores taking on a role they had not expected (see also a reference to this story on Boing Boing). It seems that Ikea's cafeteria and baby-sitting services, intended for furniture shoppers, are so cheap and attractive that many people from pensioners to travellers seek out Ikea as a dining venue of choice, and parents drop off their children for baby-sitting and then leave the store to do other things!