Archives for October 2006

The women on TV

I’ve spent the whole day watching episodes from Season Two of Battlestar Galactica. I don’t know how I managed to forget how gripping it is, how moving, and what a well-told story. And, it manages to include women in meaningful roles, with serious storylines of their own. In general TV it seems the era of […]

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Green and red Quays

With any luck, by December we’ll see a fabulous display of red and green down by the waterfront, as the Council has started the planting on the Greening the Quays project: The Greening the Quays project began in July with the building of a 2m-wide median strip to hold the “Maori Princess” species of pohutukawa […]

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Half a million for a prop

As a kid I watched Star Trek (The Original Series) and loved it. I’m still very fond of the various Star Trek series and sci-fi in general. This year is the 40th anniversary of Star Trek and with no new series in production it seems they decided to auction off a whole lot of props. […]

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Throw away the energy saver bulbs

Energy saver lightbulbs are a good thing and can help reduce electricity use and carbon emissions, but how much better to use natural sunlight as a lighting source, with Hybrid Solar Lighting. This cool idea pipes sunlight into a building through optical fibres. What’s more, it may actually be available (for larger scale operations) as […]

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Daylight savings silliness

Yesterday we switched to summertime for the season — clocks went forward an hour. It’s no big deal, life continues as normal. Except that, as usual, I’m now tired and having trouble adjusting. There seems to me no difference between sleeping, say 10 till 6, or 9 till 5, or even 11 to 7, so […]

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