Archives for July 2008

Naming rules

I’d seen the headline pass through, but didn’t read the article till Tom Negrino tweeted. … under New Zealand law, names must not “cause offence to a reasonable person”; be “unreasonably long” (more than 100 characters, including spaces); include an official title or military rank; or use punctuation marks, brackets or numerals. [Via : Tom […]

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The blot becomes a monstrosity

An update on the ugly new building on Lookout Road that I wrote about the other day in Shameful new building destroys vista from Lookout Road. Yesterday I took the dogs for a walk in the rain, and we passed by the building. I grabbed a few photos in the rain. As usual, click the […]

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Superb videos at The Bicycle Tutor

Alex Ramon bicycle geek and WordPress user has an excellent site for cyclists — The Bicycle Tutor: The purpose of this site is to help people learn how to fix their own bikes. While I don’t work in a shop anymore, I still have all of my tools and some parts so I might as […]

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Shooting the moon downunder

The other day Maria Langer wrote about her recent successful attempts to photograph the moon, including some of her photos. An Eclectic Mind : Shooting the Moon: Have you used any special techniques to shoot the moon or other objects at night? [Via : An Eclectic Mind : Shooting the Moon.] When I attended a […]

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Shameful new building destroys vista from Lookout Road

Up at the top of Mt Victoria in Wellington are the Reservoir, the old Lookout, the new Lookout, the Byrd Memorial, the trig station, the castellated building bristling with communications antennae, and a load of tracks suitable for walking and cycling. It’s a beautiful and scenic area with gorgeous views all around from the road […]

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Full? Empty? The glass breaks

About 15 years ago I visited the Hoglund glass factory in Nelson. They create gorgeous works of art. I toured the factory, and purchased a small tumbler: for one thing it was at a price I could afford, and for another it was beautiful. Size and shape were just right. The lip was smooth and […]

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VisualHub makes an impression

Heh. I’m just installing VisualHub as I want to suck in some movies from a DVD to watch on my iPod. I’ve used it before and it works well but somehow it wasn’t installed. You know how when you open a disk image they often have the application icon, and an icon for the Applications […]

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Pedal plus battery

I’m the proud owner of a brand new bike. It arrived today in two cardboard boxes, one a couple of metres long, with most of the bike in it, and the other containing the front wheel and a few bits and bobs. The photos (click to enlarge) show the bike fresh out of the box, […]

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The Kiwi iPhone – #8 wire not required

Hah! For those of us so outraged by Vodafone’s extortionate iPhone pricing that we’re not buying, comes this genuine Kiwi solution. Love it!

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iPod touch – view video podcasts more easily

Yesterday I installed the iPhone 2.0 Software on my iPod touch. Today I was able to watch video podcasts from within the Podcasts section. So? What’s the big deal? Well, before this software upgrade you couldn’t: Video Podcasts on the iPod touch.

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Otago wildlife and science movies on iTunes

The University of Otago now has a Centre for Science Communication — what a cool thing! — that puts up movies on iTunes. The Wild Flicks videos are around 25 minutes long. This morning I watched one that I almost turned off in the first couple of minutes: “Porker Stalker”. I’m very glad I stayed […]

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86 and 99 in a smart movie

Last night I drove through pouring rain to the Empire Cinema in Island Bay to watch the Get Smart movie. Get Smart is a 2008 film adaptation of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry’s 1960s spy parody television series, Get Smart. [Via : Get Smart (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.] I had heard nothing about […]

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