Welcome to Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage in Melbourne, Australia

Lachlan passed away in January 2010. As a memorial, this site remains as he left it.
Therefore the information on this site may not be current or accurate and should not be relied upon.
For more information follow this link

(This Webpage Page in No Frames Mode)

Welcome to Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage in Melbourne, Australia

Lachlan's Homepage is at http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au and E-mail address of [address now invalid]

[What's New on Lachlan's Page] | [Deep River, Ontario, Canada]

[Intro - CranClan] . . [Happening Things] . . [Nature and Local UK Things] . . [Lachlan's London, UK 2002 Web Journal] . . [USA 2002 and LDEO Columbia University] . . [Historical Literature/Poetry] . . [Music] . . [Misc Things] . . [DL SRS Status] . . [Conference and Travel Things] . . [The Wonders of Team Building] . . [Other People's Homepages] . . [Crystallographic Internet Front] . . [While in Melbourne] . . [Semi Relevant Links]

2002: Lachlan in London, England: a photo-to-art converted file sent by Lyle Kroll, using a home made Leroy Neiman art filter

Cranswick coat of arms: 'Thou Shalt Want Ere I'

[Rotate Lachlan-droid NOW!]

What is the Date and Time in Daresbury, Cheshire, UK Now? - Click to find out.
(28th March 2001 - a date that will live in Nuisanceville: Bluehaze.com.au gets hacked)

Various Cranswick Geneology links and Information

Obituary of Canon Rupert Cranswick of Rhodesia (1898 to 1977) - article from the Diocesan College Magazine - and history of 6 Cranswick brothers (Wilfred Franceys, Cecil Franceys, Gerald, Arthur Noel, Harold Franceys, Rupert Loraine)
Hand Drawn Cranswick Family Trees by Loraine Cripwell using information from Harold Cranswick
Pictures of the village of Hutton Cranswick, Yorkshire, England taken by Richard Cranswick
St. Andrew's Church, Foston, East Yorkshire, UK - where John Cranswick and Elizabeth Braidley (Bradley) were married on the 21st April 1718.

Announcement - 5th September 2001

If you are browsing from Europe and have reliability problems hitting this site, read Are you having internet reliability Problems reaching Bluehaze.com.au in Melbourne, Australia?

Happening Things

1996 and Lachlan is on the sacred (but eventually futile) quest for Junket city!

May 2003 and onwards: in Deep River, Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada.

Lachlan M. D. Cranswick
Contact outside working hours /
  Coordonnees en dehors des heures de travail:
NEW E-mail / courriel:  [address now invalid]
Home Tel: (613) 584-4226   ;   Mobile/Cell: 613 401 3433   
WWW: http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/
        P.O. Box 2057, Deep River, Ontario, Canada, K0J 1P0

(please use clear titles in any Email - otherwise messages might
accidentally get put in the SPAM list due to large amount of junk
Email being received. If you don't get an expected reply to any
messages, please try again.)

(Essayez d'utiliser des titres explicites - sans quoi vos messages
pourraient aboutir dans un dossier de rebuts, du fait de la quantite
tres importante de pourriels recue. Si vous n'obtenez pas la reponse
attendue, merci de bien vouloir renvoyer un message.)

From 1968 until 11th January, 1998, I lived in Melbourne, Australia (of which 1989 to 1996 was at the CSIRO Division of Mineral Products in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia).
. .
- Despite being a tee-totaller, friends in Melbourne advise I should be consuming great amounts of this while in the UK/England.
Refer advice received about "Hangover Vitamins"
- A Feb 2008 addition: the word Tee-Totaller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teetotalism:
  Etymology: One anecdote attributes the origin of the word to a meeting of the Preston Temperance Society in 1832 or 1833. This society was founded by Joseph Livesey, who was to become a leader of the temperance movement and the author of The Pledge: "We agree to abstain from all liquors of an intoxicating quality whether ale, porter, wine or ardent spirits, except as medicine." The story attributes the word to Dicky Turner, a member of the society, who had a stammer, and in a speech said that nothing would do but "tee-tee-total abstinence".
- Temperance Pledge Form from an 1890's Family Pictorial Bible (The Pronouncing Edition of the Holy Bible containing the authorised and revised versions of old and new testaments arranged in parallel columns giving the correct pronounciation of every proper name contained in the bible by Prof S. W. Williams.) :
An Old Haunt in Australia
Another not so personal personal webpage at the University of Geneva in Switzerland
A corporate style personal webpage at the CLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England
A plain, not so personal personal webpage at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA.

Nature things: English Wild Flowers, English landscapes, English Cloudscapes, DLSkyCAM, Flame Clouds, Living like a king sessions, and other local UK Things: including
- DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera) - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK.
- Flame Clouds of Daresbury - "The Sky's on Fire!"
- Summer 2000 Wild Flowers growing around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England
- Summary of Observered Spring 2000 Wild Flowers growing around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England
- Mid Summer 1999 Wild Flowers growing around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England
USA Spring and Summer 2001 - Wildflowers of New York State, North East American Wildflowers
The Wonders of Team Building
Homepages and other People's Homepages - Sort of
Conference and Travel Things (London, US, Canada, Ordinations, Dave and Thiti pages, etc)
Melbourne and Australia Links
- A Fare-thee-well lunch at the Dogs Bar bistro in Ackland Street St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia - March 2001
Music
Misc things: Including:
- Poetry Stuff and Links
- World Wide Radio and TV Stations available via Internet/Real-Audio
- Movies
- Deep (To some - they are but jokes, humour, humor, quotes and things)
- Other Links (plus quotes and extra general information)
- Web Comics
- Very Important Things Web Page
- Software, Windows, Linux, Computer and Computer Security News
- Personally Useful UNIX Commands

Hints on taking close-up (macro) photographs of wildflowers using the Sony Mavica MVC-FD75 / FD75 digital camera
(Including the "two fingered salute" Sony Mavica FD75 wildflower / macro / close-up focussing method)

Historial things, Literature and Poetry
- Including extracts from the "The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 2: Hegel and Marx" by Karl Raimund Popper (Originally published 1945)
  "Bertrand Russell described this study, with its companion volume on Plato, as ' a work of first-class importance which ought to be widely read for its masterly criticism of the enemies of democracy, ancient and modern. His (Popper's) attack on Plato, while unorthodox, is in my opinion thoroughly justified. His analysis of Hegel is deadly. Marx is dissected with equal acumen, and given his due share of responsibility for modern misfortunes. The book is a vigorous and profound defence of democracy, timely, very interesting, and very well written."
- For a concise background summary of "The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume" by Karl Popper refer to: Extracts from "Philosophy and the Real World : An Introduction to Karl Popper" by Bryan Magee Published by Open Court Pub Co, July 1985, ISBN: 0875484360
  "The general guiding principle for public policy put forward in The Open Society is: 'Minimize avoidable suffering'."
  "The vital question is not 'Who should rule?' but 'How can we minimize misrule?"
- Extracts from the "The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 1: The Spell of Plato" by Karl Raimund Popper (Originally written from 1938 to 1943. Published in book form 1945)
- Extracts from the "The Poverty of Historicism" by Karl Raimund Popper (Originally published in book form 1957)
  "In memory of the countless men and women of all creeds or nations or races who fell victims to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny"
- OCR'd text of "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes" by Ronald Knox (1888-1957) (published in Essays in Satire by Ronald Knox)
- Extracts from: "The Great Crash: 1929" by John Kenneth Galbraith (First Published 1955; 1961 Reprint)
- Extracts from: Extracts from "The Culture of Contentment" by John Kenneth Galbraith (First Published 1992) ISBN 0-395-57228-2
- Extracts from: Extracts from "Money: Whence it came, where it went" by John Kenneth Galbraith (First Published 1975)
- Extracts from: Economics and the Public Purpose" by John Kenneth Galbraith (First Published 1973)
- Winston Churchill - Amritsar Massacre Speech - July 8th 1920, House of Commons - Background and complete scanned text from Hansard.
- Winston Churchill's 28th April 1925 budget speech as Chancellor of the Exchequer to the House of Commons - that put England back on the Gold Standard.
  ("The 1925 return to the gold standard was perhaps the most decisively damaging action involving money in modern time")
- Extracts from "Egypt, Greece and Rome Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean" by Charles Freeman (Pub. 1999)
- Extracts from: "Gore Vidal United States Essays 1952-1992"
- Extracts from: "The Diggiest Dog/"The Digging-est Dog" (who dug up Highway 81) by Al Perkins illustrated by Eric Gurney (1967)"
- Reviews and extracts from the An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States" by Charles A. Beard (First Published 1913)
- Complete OCR'd text of "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" (first published 1913) by Charles A. Beard (1874 - 1948)
- Different English translations of some maxims in Baltasar Gracian's (1601-1658) The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- "Seed of Chaos : What Mass Bombing Really Means" by Vera Brittain (London, New Vision Publishing Co, 1944) (Distributed in the USA as "Massacre by Bombing: The Facts Behind the British-American Attack on Germany" by Vera Brittain ; Fellowship, March 1944, Part Two, Vol. X - No 3. )
- Extracts from: Links to on-line texts of George's Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-four" / 1984, and other Nineteen Eighty-four stuff
- The 1860 publication: "Essays and Reviews" by (Church of England theologians) Frederick Temple, Rowland Williams, Baden Powell, Henry Bristow Wilson, C. W. Goodwin, Mark Pattison and Benjamin Jowett

The Surreys Played the Game
Fran�ois Villon c.1461 - Ballade (des dames de temps jadis) Ballade (of the Ladies of Ancient Times)

"AAF - Advance Australia Fair" Original Lyrics Homepage. (The Australian National Anthem) Now (thanks to Jean and Jill from the CSIRO library) add some original old "Advance Australia Fair" sheet music obtained from the National Library of Australia:

Things for me on the Internet and Crystallographic Internet Front?

IUCr Sponsored, free Crystallographic Nexus CD-ROM for developing world laboratories
Rietveld Users' Mailing List
Sci.techniques.xtallography Homepage

An invited talk on the Xtal Nexus CD was given at ECM98 in Prague, titled "Canning the Crystallographic Internet: Nexus CD-ROM for Scientists Isolated From the Information Super Highway", Lachlan Cranswick, CCP14 Secretary.
- Poster for the talk is located at http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/poster-talks/ecm98-nexus-cd-roms/index.htm
Other Relevant and Semi Relevant Links
- Lachlan's London, UK 2001 Web Journal
- Historical Literature/Poetry
- Literature/Philosophy Stuff and Links
- DEEP (To some - they are but jokes, humour, humor, quotes and things)
- Poetry Stuff and Links
- World Wide Radio and TV Stations available via Internet/Real-Audio
- Movies
- Deep (To some - they are but jokes, humour, humor, quotes and things)
- Other Links
- Web Comics
- Very Important Things Web Page
- Software, Windows, Linux, Computer and Computer Security News
- Personally Useful UNIX Commands
- Artificial Life/Evolutionary Algorithms Links
  - Extracts from the "Poems of War Resistance" 1966 Peace Calendar - War Resisters League, New York
- The lachlan.bluehaze.com.au bad links page
- The webpages I like most to check up on (restricted access within dl.ac.uk and ccp14.ac.uk domains), checking whether the CCP14 web server is still running.
  - http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/server-status
  - Web stats
[Intro - CranClan] . . [Happening Things] . . [Nature and Local UK Things] . . [Lachlan's London, UK 2002 Web Journal] . . [USA 2002 and LDEO Columbia University] . . [Historical Literature/Poetry] . . [Music] . . [Misc Things] . . [DL SRS Status] . . [Conference and Travel Things] . . [The Wonders of Team Building] . . [Other People's Homepages] . . [Crystallographic Internet Front] . . [While in Melbourne] . . [Semi Relevant Links]

(This Webpage Page in No Frames Mode)

If you are feeling sociable, my new E-mail address is [address now invalid] (replace the *at* with an @ ) . Old E-mail addresses might be giving forwarding or reliability problems. Please use clear titles in any Email - otherwise messages might accidentally get put in the SPAM list due to large amount of junk Email being received. So, if you don't get an expected reply to any messages, please try again.

Welcome to Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage in Melbourne, Australia

Happening Things

Things for me on the Internet and Crystallographic Internet Front?

Other Relevant and Semi Relevant Links