The prime minister of Australia believes we have quite enough National Parks. Politicians around the world see economic growth as their primary goal, and (while economic growth is not necessarily linked to human population growth) in Australia, the idea of aiming to limit human population growth is virtually a taboo…
I posted a new beta version of the Environmental Benefit Calculator on urbanstreams.net today. The R package ‘Shiny’ has made the rewrite remarkably easy (and yet it has taken me forever). I still need to ‘prettify’ the page, but it seems to be mostly functional – doing all of the…
Finally, urbanstreams.net is on-line full-time after a long frustrating search for the cause of the server’s random rebooting problem. The multitude of websites out there that advise on random rebooting problems suggest numerous possibilities, but I didn’t find a pointer to what turned out to be my problem: a faulty…
If, by some miracle, you have lucked upon this site, well done – I’ve wasted a big slab of time setting up the urbanstreams.net server before becoming aware that my ISP, Optus, chooses to block port 80. Fortunately, (if I am unable to talk Optus into opening up the…