Great read on a summer day
Great read on a summer day, originally uploaded by RobiNZ. I don't read much fiction, typically male I'm told, but have enjoyed Derek Hansen's "Remember Me". Set in Auckland in the 50's it is a bit before my time but
Robin Capper
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
Outlook 2007 Mail Editor not creating Hyperlinks?
Tonight I found, even when set to HTML format messages, my Outlook 2007 Mail Editor wasn’t making pasted links into clickable hyperlinks. They pasted ok but were not auto-formatted into a link. It was a pain as I like to check the link works before sending. The solution
Want your own “Love the Ribbon”?
Due to popular demand, ok a couple of comments after posting this, these are available at RobiNZ Blog Store. Any profits from these sales will go to RobiNZ Blog Kiva Micro Fund Lending Team. NOTE: As I don’t have rights to reproduce a real product ribbon the CafePress image
The Love the Ribbon page…
This page has resources related to the whole Fluent / Ribbon user interface thing that happened from 2007 to 2009,10,11,12… The posts: General UI Related posts: * The Story of the a Ribbon – Links to the full story from Microsoft’s Office UI team. * Is the Office 2007 Ribbon
Jack Yan’s candidacy for Mayor of Wellington
This is a bit embarrassing: Cleaning up my draft blog folder I found this post, written back in September, but for some reason unpublished! Wind your mind back to 09/2009 as you read… Jack Yan announces candidacy for Mayor of Wellington I can’t say this was a surprise
Pohutukawa means summer
Pohutukawa, originally uploaded by RobiNZ. But you have to imagine the cicada soundtrack
BIM at the NZ Maritime Museum?
It’s hard to avoid BIM, even when you’re on holiday. I must admit the prime motivation for visiting the Maritime Museum was a recently opened exhibit: Blue Water Black Magic - A Tribute to Sir Peter Blake It features the 1995 America’s Cup-winning boat NZL32 – Black Magic
2009 Blogging Highlights
I only did one and it’s on the other blog!
2009 Blogging Highlights
At about this time I do a Blog related review of the year so here goes… Best Blog Discovery: Twitter. Really! It’s not going to kill blogging as just enhances it. Although initially skeptical I have found Twitter slotted into my on-line life in a way no other
John Dybvig explains New Zealand to David Letterman
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Flying Spaghetti Monster
FSM Sighting on The IT Crowd
It’s been there all the time but I just noticed the FSM on the wall behind Moss. Cool to see his noodley touch in this classic comedy. It’s currently in never-ending repeat mode on U.K. TV but rewards repeat viewing so I don’t mind! www.
Twitter connections in a map
Regulars here will know I like the map format for visualising information relationships. Thus, it is interesting to see this summary of my Twitter activity and relationships. The static image below was captured not long after Autodesk University thus the #AU2009 tag featuring! It doesn’t convey the dynamics of