Michael Paine - Sydney Australia

      17 May 05: Email virus alert - someone has a virus that is spewing out emails with a false sender address.  My address (mpaineATtpgi.com.au) is being used at times. These emails are NOT originating from me and there is nothing I can do about it. Update June 06: I have nothing to do with an email circulating about cats and dogs in China that seems to be [falsely] using my email address as the sender. Please ensure your computer has an active virus checker to stop this sort of thing (and switch to Mac!).

      Automotive Safety

      • Vehicle Design and Research Pty Limited engineering consultancy
      • Road Safety Web links
      • Publications and reports - road safety and science (52K PDF)

      Astronomy & Science

      • Australian Spaceguard Survey - the search for asteroids and comets which might threaten the Earth.
      • Tsunami from asteroid impacts - plus Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and risk to Sydney from tsunami.
      • Index to my "Rocks in space" series of articles.
      • The Planetary Society Australian Volunteers
      • Science Conjecture - life on Mars and other topical science issues
      • Greenhouse gases and climate change - links and news
      •  Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit from the book Demon Haunted World and Carl Sagan's warning about the reptile within us
      • Perpetual Motion and the Big Wither.

      PCs & Internet

      • PCs and the Year 2000+ old news but still interesting.
      • Australian Open Access User Group  - DOS software users group with all sorts of PC tips and tricks - with a dig at Windows and a tips page for Apple Mac OS X.
      • TPG - my commercial service provider
      • A quick introduction to HTML
      • World Clock - (external) current times around the world

      Politics - Caution: clicking this link might be regarded as a seditious act under proposed Australian laws!

      Hobbies & local issues

      • Member of OzGreen
      • GEMFIND mapping shareware for Australian gemstone fossickers
      • Red Hill Preservation Society
      • Warringah's Environmental Hotspots
      • Urban Villages, SEPP5 retirement villages, Warringah's new LEP. "It would be unfair to leeches to compare them with the legal  profession, because leeches do not drain their victims dry" -  from a letter to my local paper following the revelation that legal costs of a spat between two Warringah Councillors had exceeded $1 million.
      • Australian Phone Changes confusion reigned!
      • Australian street maps.
      • Australian Snow Statistics for skiers
      • Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia - magnificant scenery, geology and astronomy.
      • Looking for one of the best Australian TV dramas - "Heartland" with Cate Blanchett and Ernie Dingo? It was re-marketed in North America as "Burned Bridge" and is available on Region-free DVD from CD Universe. Brilliant performances from Cate and Ernie.
      • Interesting web sites
      • My 1974 Engineering Thesis

        •   Note that http://users/tpg.com.au/mpaine/  now works as well as the www4 address

         
         

        Last update 30 Nov 2006.
        email: mpaine aT tpgi.com.au
        Background: Voyager image of Jupiter - NASA