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I feel a bit strange tonight, my family have been quite badly affected by the Christchurch Earthquake. We are blessed that no-one in our family has lost their life. So to those who have, my deepest condolences.
Two and a half weeks ago members of my family saw their houses, businesses, personal belongings and their city literally crumble in front of their eyes. A devastating site.
Hearing what they are going through at this time is incredibly sobering. So to see another part of the world also hit by a …

Earlier this year, to raise money to help with the rebuilding of Queensland after the devastating floods, a group of like minded dudes from ProjectHorus sent the mascot from the company Linux into (near) space and back.
‘Tux’ is the mascots name. A photo of Tux in (near) space over South Australia taken during the flight as well as Tux himself was auctioned at the conference dinner. Some of the people who signed the photo included Vint Cerf (one of the “fathers” of the Internet), Eric Allman (of “sendmail” fame) and …

QUEENSLAND FLOOD DISASTER

A lot of people have been asking me what it was like to visit the evacuation centres in and around Brisbane on Sunday.
Every time I get asked that I think… “Where could I possibly start?”
Our day was a busy one, we flew up from Sydney, visited three Evac (evacuation) centres and then were back in Sydney by 8:00pm that night.
At the Evac centres we met heaps of children and parents who were affected by these floods. I want to give a shout out to all the people I …

Hola All,
Over the two weeks Venezuela has been hit by terrible floods, many have lost homes especially in the area of Falcon State. A few people on my twitter have let me know what is going on and by the sounds of it, people are in a mad scramble to try and make sure everyone is sheltered and cared for.
“Floods and landslides caused by torrential rains over the last two weeks have killed at least 34 people and forced more than 5,000 Venezuelans from their homes. More than 74,000 Venezuelans …