Recently we visited Power Plant at Darling Harbour, an exhibition presented by Sydney Festival and Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority in Chinese Garden of Friendship. I didn’t have any expectations – it was my wife’s idea and I simply tagged along. What I found there was one of the most dazzling experiences in my life. Below …
Monthly Archives: January 2011
A Text Generation’s Dictionary
Image via Wikipedia If in a fiction book I saw words “be4” and “there4” I would have thought that the book was a recent creation and an author was quoting an SMS message. Imagine my surprise when I found those words in Artemus Ward‘s Interview with President Lincoln written in XIX century. Ward was using …
The Harbour City
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I talked to my colleague about Brisbane flood alert: He: Oh my God, in Brisbane they have a river flowing through the city. I: Yes, just like in Sydney. He: We don’t have a river in Sydney. I: We do – it’s Parramatta River. Puzzled look, then: Oh, right! This just …