Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, so some atheists will be celebrating Newtonmas as a secular alternative to Christmas.
Happy Newtonmas!
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Happy Newtonmas!
http://thehive.org.au/ Monthly networking for entrepreneurs, with a guest speaker who talks about their startup. The podcast from the session with Steve Sammartino from Rentoid.com has some interesting anecdotes on how he publicised his startup.
http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/ Fortnightly meetups to discuss tech startup ideas (the Melbourne website is broken, so I am not sure if this is still happening).
http://www.tedxmelbourne.com/ (November 20th) TEDxMelbourne is an independently organised TED-like event under license from TED.com
http://www.ruxcon.org.au/ (November 20th, and 21st) Ruxcon is the premier technical security conference in Australia. Like Defcon, but held in Australia.
http://groups.google.com/group/mclbb (first Tuesday of the month. Next one is on November 9th due to the Cup Day public holiday) Interesting technical talks held at lunchtime in. The next ones are on Hadoop and Python games.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/440359/ Melbourne Association of Software Testers (last Wednesday of the month) Monthly meetup at Beer DeLuxe to talk about software testing and related topics (and drink beer). Some Agile testing enthusiasts guaranteed to be at each meeting.
http://trampolineday.com/ (next one is expected to be sometime around March 2011) Trampoline is a self-organising un-conference for those who find the world interesting, have something to offer and share, and have an inquisitive mind.
Hopefully this comment is not too off-topic for Melbourne-based readers. I have already met several of the commenters from this HN story at some of these events. If you have any more, please post them in a reply to this comment.
When I need to concentrate, I wear my big Sennheiser headphones - often not even plugged into an audio source.
They are very comfortable for long periods, block out most of the noise, and (best of all) they send a clear "do not disturb" message to anyone thinking of interrupting.
Historically (in the 1880s), the western suburbs were where the working class lived, and where heavy industry was located.
Today, the majority of the wealthy suburbs are still east of the city - Toorak, Camberwell, Kew, Hawthorn etc.