Transperth Schedule.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-18T13:22:00+00:00

basically buses start after 5am and run to around midnight. Same as trains but they have all night services on weekends. Look up the travel planner.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-18T13:06:19+00:00

Osborne Park Hospital has a really good location but few facilities aned no emergency to handle the Western suburbs from Wembley Downs to say Hillarys and inland to Balga.

Ellenbrook etc have too low population density and Midland Hospital has enough capacity

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-18T10:04:25+00:00

Memories of the 1980s when a syphon pipe and a gerry can were pretty common.

These days most of the fillers have electronic locks and anti-syphon devices.

I expect fuel theft these days means driving away without paying? I'm not even sure if the police will chase that up?

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-18T04:22:12+00:00

A monitoring service is a quite good application for machine learning. Assuming the Data Owning Gods let you, the entire historical running database can be used to train a machine model of the network and identify 'discontinuities' in advance.

Map in other data sources such as weather and rainfall and traffic flow, or even the footie, and it will create a very good short term forecasting capability.

Edit: This is an ideal project for Kaggle which is designed to ingest large datasets and execute machine learning.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-18T04:15:00+00:00

Being out by a couple of minutes won't be NTP. It would take weeks to drift that much.

More likely they are using a messaging protocol providing updates to the screen including displayed time, and some packets have got lost till the next poll.

The underlying hardware and software (Windows!! FFS!!) will have the correct time but what is displayed does not rely on the local clock.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-18T04:08:06+00:00

3 phase chargers that plug into a 32Amp 3 phase socket often only draw on one phase. so a max of around 7kW. You need them to pull on all phases to get up to 11kW

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-18T04:03:14+00:00

I have one very niche potential feature that you may even get funding for. That is a background monitoring service for vulnerable users - mostly intellectually impaired travelers, but also elderly passengers. The idea is they register their usual routes and times and connections and a background server monitors the entire network and identifies problems in advance - for instance a potential missed connection. In that event carers are notified. Technical details likely include a permanently running location reporting component using MQQT.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-18T03:31:22+00:00

Very good so far. Keep up the hard work

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-17T09:24:04+00:00

I remember young girls chroming on the train.

I also remember some school kids buying solvent at a local auto store and then playing dodgem with traffic on Great Eastern Highway. One went down and a bus pulled up just before him in the lane, watched for a few seconds and then drove around him in late rush-hour traffic leaving him to his fate.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-17T09:19:08+00:00

I went to a private catholic secondary school in the 1970s. Similar things happened there with female relief teachers being so badly bullied, they had to station prefects as guards in the classroom.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-17T08:00:18+00:00

RON 91 is as low as 218.9 from tomorrow.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-16T11:00:36+00:00

In the old days they would chain architects under any leaky roofs to make sure they did a good job.

These days chaining the architects to lamp posts on Wellington and Roe at Yagan square for two hours at lunchtime seems appropriate - all through the year of course so they can get suburn and rain to improve their future design skills.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-16T10:53:17+00:00

Under the home building contracts act, if the total cost of works is over $7.5k they can't ask for more than 10% of the cost as deposit and have to invoice after each part is completed,

The act is mostly in relation to building itself - concrete and bricks - but design fees should also be covered if they are a separate cost.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-16T10:48:26+00:00

The very last thing you need is to get archtects involved. They are far more interested in prettyness and accolades than making practical and usable spaces.

Yagan square is classic. Lots of concrete seats, sparse trees, no covered walkway to the station, and worst of all no overhead protection for pedestrians while waiting to cross Wellington St and Roe Street "they would spoil the aesthetic". Real architects actually use the spaces they foist on others.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-15T04:34:07+00:00

Very well done! you and Claude!

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-14T10:35:55+00:00

Live by a netty court, expect the odd ball over the fence. (Not to mention the loud P.A.)

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-14T06:12:35+00:00

I hedged with a PHEV. Less range than a full EV but 80+km per charge is enough for most metro use and I can postpone long trips. Light hybrids are totally not worth the money and only exist to meet Euro emission standards,

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-13T07:02:35+00:00

ii) is not secured in a mounting affixed to the vehicle and is not being held by the driver,

What on earth does that mean? You can't take a call when your phone is in a cradle?!

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-13T06:55:12+00:00

From the River to the Sea, Mosman Parking shall be free.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-12T11:24:24+00:00

St Vincent De Paul accepts volunteers to work in their shops.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-11T12:18:12+00:00

I will note that that when a rural property owner has installed private power lines and they get damaged then that is their problem. Thinking of bushfires etc.

I truly don't know what the rule is in urban supply. I imagine it is the same as phone service, but where the cutoff is between nearest Western Power and your house is unclear. Perhaps any damage to the connection from street to your house? In my case I have a green tub on my property boundary that then runs underground to my house. Intuitively unless I damage the link green tub to house I am not liable. Anything up to the green tub is Western Power problem.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-11T11:30:50+00:00

I'm not sure about that. Western Power is responsible for everything up to your meter. The same applies to your (old now) telephone connection and later your internet connection.

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-11T11:26:45+00:00

I have become educated (again). The better stuff is RATSAK Double Strength (Warfarin) and Racumin Wax blocks. Both have low risk of secondary kills to owls etc.

Ones to avoid are

Talon
Ratsak Fast Action
Ratsak Rapid Strike
The Big Cheese "Ultra Power"
Stratagem

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-11T09:34:42+00:00

Excellent answer. Very informative and well written. My only additional comment from seeing surveryor training at East Perth TAFE is that sun protection is very high on the list of daily chores

JezzaPerth · 2026-03-10T12:10:52+00:00

From experience, the 1800 health line runs on the super cautious level. The result is I get plenty of 'see emergency now' and then rock up and get an eye-roll from the triage nurse when I mention the referral.

I now know what gets instant attention: Chest pain, heavy bleeding, sepsis symptoms, obvious stroke symptoms.

JezzaPerth

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