The Blue Mountains City Council has a nice weather station set-up to allow real time visibility of conditions.

Measurements are recorded at both Springwood and Katoomba.

http://www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/weather/Katoomba/

This weekend (10th & 11th) is the local Fleuralia fair, where Leura closes off its main street and opens up the formal gardens to visitors. Worth a look.

The following details were lifted from:

http://www.bluemountainsonline.com.au/news

“Fleuralia and Village Fair”

The famous Leura Gardens Spring Festival from October 4th to October the 12th will showcase nine spectacular gardens open to the public and in aid of charity. The gardens are open from 9.30am to 4.30pm. For more information contact Frank Spolc on 4757 2539. Tickets for the Open Gardens can be acquired from the Leura and Blue Mountains Visitors Centre which is located at the top of “The Mall” in Leura. For more details contact Jacqui or David Clark on 47841404. The village of Leura’s famous “Fleuralia” and Village Fair concludes the Festival on the weekend of October 11th and 12th.

If you are looking for a fairly full featured and inexpensive domain registrar for .com, .net and .org names, try http://www.jumpdomain.com/

The killer for me was their email obscufation in the whois record, which allows me to minimise spam.

At the time of writing they are $US10 p.a. with transfers at $US7.99.

Within a dollar or so of the cheapest I’ve seen, and they do free mail redirects etc.

After being impressed with photo.com and Getty Images for royalty free photos, I’ve stumbled on http://www.istockphoto.com/

As Shannon from Macresq says:

Working on a project and need a royalty free stock photo? If you want

quality, but you don’t want to spend a bunch of cash per photo, check out

iStockPhoto.com. Here, you can purchase thousands of photos for just 50

cents each. If you’re a photographer, you can upload your pics and get

paid 10 cents for each download. As a user, just buy “credits” for 50

cents each, in $10 increments. Then you can download to your heart’s

content for a tiny fraction of the price at other Stock Photo sites.

Check it out, I think you’ll like it:

http://www.istockphoto.com/

Nifty, and an example of “why didn’t I think of that?”

If you are doing work on switched circuits, like a trunked phone system, there will be discussion of the probability of end to end blocking and various other traffic quality measurements. Sooner or later Erlangs will be mentioned and it will be handy to know they are the unit of measurement of line use per hour (100% utilisation = 1Erlang).

For an out standing explanation, check out:

http://www.users.cloud9.net/~stark/ctappd.pdf