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Olympic Dam Construction Camp – Feb 1994

Friday 28th September, 2007 1 Comment

Construction camp at Olympic Dam villiage – still being used to house workers since there was a chronic shortage of accomodation (which I believe hasn’t improved since I was there in 1994!!). The yellow car is mine, and the first window / air conditioner behind it was my room … badly located, since I got … [Read More »]

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My room – Olympic Dam Village – Feb 1994

Tuesday 18th September, 2007 2 Comments

The workers quarters at Olympic Dam Village (the township built to service the Olympic Dam mine before Roxby Downs was built) … was the only place they could accommodate us when I went there for my second stay. Very rudimentary conditions with a shared shower/toilet block and a very noisy airconditioner in each room that … [Read More »]

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Simon in Roxby Downs – Feb 1993

Monday 17th September, 2007 Leave a Comment

The main street of Roxby Downs as it was in February 1993. I’m sure it’s a bit different now with all the development in the town in recent years! This was the first of three times I lived in Roxby Downs, each time I lived there for a period of 3 months while working for … [Read More »]

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No Longer Blue

Friday 30th March, 2007 3 Comments

Well, as of about 11am this morning, I am no longer an IBM employee … I’ve been made redundant! It’s a rather stupid situation … let me explain how it happened. Back in mid 2005, I was running some training for our business partners with the help of a colleague who was based in Hong … [Read More »]

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Lotus Channel updates

Thursday 31st August, 2006 Leave a Comment

I’ve managed to get back into the swing of things with my Lotus Channel blog … and I’ve redesigned the theme to make it a bit more streamlined. I’m pretty happy with it. Must do a new theme for this blog too.

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