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Finally got my June 2011 PNG shots up!

Douglas Stetner — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:19:34 +0000

I don’t know why this took me as long as it did, but here are the shots from my PNG trip to Kavieng last June, courtesy of Lissenung Island Resort

Pics here:

Blue Bay Dive

Douglas Stetner — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:24:53 +0000

Winds were to high to take the Unidive boat out, so Chris and I drove to Brunswick Heads for a dive with Blue Bay Dive. Did two dives, one at Mackerel Boulder (?) and one at Julien Rocks.

Pics here:

Christmas Day 2011

Douglas Stetner — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:51:01 +0000

A few from Christmas day…

Pat and Bryony were married last weekend

Douglas Stetner — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:25:42 +0000

Pat and Bryony had a very nice wedding up near Maleny on Sunday 20/11/2011.

Here are some photos:

Work trip to Auckland

Douglas Stetner — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:32:59 +0000

A few from my recent trip to Auckland:

October 29 2011 Unidive Mooloolaba

Douglas Stetner — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:17:10 +0000

Went for two dives at Mooloolaba, Pinnacles (Pin2) and Fairylands.

On the boat we had Bride, Jeremy, Christian, Bruce, Leonardo, Kelly, David, Maryse and myself. Jeremy made his famous choc muffins, and there were snakes, cinnamon bun and I don’t know what all else, all I know is we had way to much food!

Had the macro lens on, so no above water shots, but here are some from underwater…:

John McCarthy — Father of AI and Lisp — Dies at 84

Douglas Stetner — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:10:37 +0000

Another icon of the computer family is gone.

John McCarthy — Father of AI and Lisp — Dies at 84.

C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead

Douglas Stetner — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:08:46 +0000

C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead • The Register.

With Bell’s Ken Thompson, Ritchie helped develop Unix and got it running on a DEC PDP-11, and released the first edition of the operating system in 1971.

I never met the man, but I have spent 25 years working on UNIX, the best OS in the world. Still. I started working on UNIX on a PDP-11/45 with a 1 Megabyte RL01 disk pack.
I will be toasting Dennis with a stiff scotch this evening.

Straddie SharkWatch weekend

Douglas Stetner — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:49:21 +0000

Had a great weekend on Straddie again, (fairly) flat seas, sunshine and lots of grey nurse sharks! Lots of humpback whales too, one swam right behind the boat as we were preparing to go down for our second dive! (Couldn’t get a focus lock on it before it disappeared though, damn!)

Pictures here:

P.S. See Reef Check Australia for more information on SharkWatch.

May 8th 2011 Unidive Flinders trip

Douglas Stetner — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:17:58 +0000

We made the trip out to Flinders Reef on Sunday, nice flat seas and pretty good vis (even though there were lots of floaties to make back scatter and frustrate the photographers!).

My photos are here: