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Brrrr, saw the first real frost of winter on the neighbours car while walking Alfie this morning. Even had to ferret out the Icebreaker merino gloves last worn in Tibet! However I suspect people who live where it gets really cold will think 3ºc isn’t worth a mention! Read more →
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Been scanning some old slides recently. New Zealand, sometime early 80's. The car I learnt to drive in... Wobbly suspension Elastic steering Spongy clutch Gear shift only vaguely connected to the cogs it was stirring A near new Marina! Read more →
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Back in September we crossed the border over the ‘Friendship Bridge’ from Tibet into Nepal at Kodari. I remember the chaos, friendly smiling faces and warmth (both physical from the humid air and emotional from the people) of this little one street town. It was quite a contrast to the authoritarian atmosphere we’d just experienced at the Tibetan border. Kodari clings to the mountainside between shear cliffs and a roaring river. The images bellow are from a BBC news report tonight (05/17/2015). Kodari was near the centre of the quake aftershock and has been destroyed. It is abandoned, as the... Read more →
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My notes & photos from TEDx Auckland 2015. I only took the phone (for both notes & photos) and was sitting right at the back of the hall so my shots are a bit ‘distant’. The italics are the speaker profiles sent out by TEDx Auckland The bullet points my OneNote notes taken on the day (which may contain errors) and a few post-TEDx thoughts after. SIOUXSIE WILES Award-winning scientist Dr. Siouxsie Wiles describes herself as a microbiologist and bioluminescence enthusiast but to others she is “that pink-haired science lady”. She believes that playmakers like Lego should lead the way... Read more →
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Weird, wondered why my usual 1.6'ish km morning dog walk was tracked as 2.8 km? Alfie probably does walk this track but I don't follow his every zig and zag that precisely! Jittery Positioning System? Read more →
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Nice that 100% proceeds go to Nepal via the Oxfam Earthquake Relief Fund. Sent from my Lumia 1520 Windows Phone From: Team at the NZ International Comedy Festival Subject: Comedy for Nepal and shows on this weekend The New Zealand Comedy Trust and Q Theatre are putting on Comedy for Nepal - a fundraising showcase with proceeds going directly to Oxfam NZ's Nepal Earthquake Response. The worst earthquake in 80 years ha s hit Nepal: buildings are flattened, thousands are injured, the death toll has exceeded 8000 and is rising every day. At this stage survivors are in a race... Read more →
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Looking forward to an inspiring day at TEDx Auckland. Not often, ever?, I go to a church* all day! * Victory 'Conference' Centre Read more →
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I guess this isn’t strictly a Traffic Light Thought but anyway… My new commute has quite a few roundabouts. I don’t mind as they shift traffic much more efficiently than traffic lights but one thing annoys me. I know ‘the plural of anecdote is not data’ but it seems a significant percentage of Kiwi drivers don’t know how to indicate when going ‘straight’ through a roundabout. On entry some signal left, others right, when there is no need to signal at all until approaching the exit. It really isn’t that hard, as the road code extract below shows… If you... Read more →
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