A Kiwi, but not a flightless bird or brown fuzzy skin green centred fruit. Humanist, Skeptic, Cyclist, Car Enthusiast, Westie Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand | he/him
This may be from the Department of obvious but just in case I’m the only one who hasn’t noticed… IE9 allows you to drag a site URL to the taskbar creating an pinned icon (right). Clicking that launches IE with open at URL while right click will give
While using another machine, via remote desktop, to publish & print I noticed a small edit was required. It involved applying a space style to a polyline (in an old floor plan) and that didn’t go so well. The same conversion on the actual machine worked fine.
During an idle moment, waiting for something, a noise drew my gaze toward the sky. It came through the solid cloud cover and I strained to identify the source. I had a good idea but wondered how you’d explain it to someone who didn’t, who knew nothing of
I laughed when I saw “I am very tall and really need some more space” in this article: 'Sir Richard Branson promised me'- Virgin Atlantic reveals unusual upgrade requests Undoubtedly the top wish of any traveller is an upgrade, but let's face it: unless you shell
I was reminded of Dr Rob Morrison’s "Skeptical Illusions" presentation at TAMOz while working yesterday. He demonstrated how visual perception is the result of biological systems, experience, expectations, even culture. In short, what you “see” isn’t necessarily what you are looking at. While adding areas to
It was great to meet the Skepticbros, Tom and Nick, at the TAMOZ fringe Bloggers Breakfast (seen below being interviewed for Token Skeptic #42 Podcast by Kylie "Podblack Cat" Sturgess). Inspired, more accurately appalled, by dubious claims & massive profit margins made by plastic hologram bands they did
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At about this time I do a Blog related review of the year so here goes… Best Blog Discovery: Last year it was Twitter & TweetDeck, This year it’s Twitter Lists. Lists allow you to group and see tweeps tweets without “following them”. Using this I went from following
I only knew Denis Dutton via his media appearances, as an academic & skeptic, in New Zealand. I don’t recall when I started reading Arts & Letters Daily but it was it was several years before blogged about it in 2004 and I still visit it regularly. Two clips
I had some time to kill between an airport drop-off and dinner in the city. Somehow I ended up in Newmarket window shopping for a car. Andrew Simms had the new Alfa Giulietta, the first I’ve “seen in the metal”. The 8C theme translates better on a larger
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I’ve been using the notebook (right) for meetings since Autodesk University 2004. It’s apparent that I don’t take many analog notes as, seven years later, I have only just filled it! One reason it survived is I like the size and ring binding which allows pages to
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@dannews so.....who's going to film at wellington airport tomorrow with THAT forecast?! 4 hours ago (Referring to 160 km/h winds forecast in Wellington) @robincapper Think Wellington Airport will be living up to it's "Wild at Heart” slogan tomorrow? @dannews I'd love