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Philip Branch
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A/Prof, Department of Engineering Technologies, School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology

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Yes. A great injustice.
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
First Sparks album I bought.
October 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’m guessing he’s talking about a comms network with a fibre optic core and Ethernet access.
October 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
E but only because of the Tasmanian scallop pies.
September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Thesis is that population stabilizing more quickly than projected and for many countries will soon decline. Don’t recall “scarcity” but says reduced population should make some problems easier to address but new ones will emerge. Interesting read but not a demographer so can’t comment on validity.
August 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I have so many backpacks I don’t know what to do with.
July 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
My favourite Deighton is “Horse underwater”. Here’s the narrator (same character as in “The Ipcress File”) describing the first lesson of a navy diving class. I was impressed with CPO Edwards’ classroom management style.
May 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Want to be able to access data via webserver on RPi as a plot. Stop gap is to use the very good Numbers App but interface with webserver a bit clunky. Might look at JavaScript plotting.
May 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
May 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Four of them talking to the Raspberry Pi.
May 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I’ve got a 12V motorbike battery but the step down transformer I’ve got has an output current limit of 2.1A. Raspberry Pi5 likes 5A. Will need a different transformer.
May 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
All I know about Ohio is from Neil Young and Bill Bryson.
May 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Wry smile from Australian.
May 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM