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
Good to see this update on the proposed Hobsonville Rd Cycleway to link Westgate to Hobsonville Point. Even better to hear staged construction to start mid-2025. I ride this road quite often, will be a nice option. Hobsonville Road Cycleway | AT Project update for February 2025 We've been
Politics
Sent to Wayne Brown, Mayor of Auckland. CC Ken Turner (my local Board), Dean Kimpton AT Hi Wayne, I've always thought you were a bit of a dick and didn't vote for you. Seeing your comments in the NZ Herald article on the Victoria St linear
Design
Jeans to match my car? Probably not because... * Not available until August 2025 * Even their standard jeans are €420! (nz$770 when this was posted) Screenshots assembled from the TRAMAROSSA X ABARTH Announcement Video TRAMAROSSA X ABARTH AN EXCLUSIVE COLLECTION FOR THE MAN WHO EXPERIENCES SPEED AND ELEGANCE. The collaboration
A nice article about Bertone design (photo is mine) Nuccio Bertone: Discovering the Maestro Of Automotive Design | magazine.derivaz-ives.com In the summer of 1977, those wishing to immerse themselves in the panorama of the world's artistic trends went to Kassel, Germany, to visit the sixth edition of
Politics
Sent to the PM and Health Minister: Sent: Friday, 24 January 2025 14:45 To: Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz <Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz> Cc: Simeon.Brown@parliament.govt.nz <Simeon.Brown@parliament.govt.nz> Subject: Cabinet Health Reshuffle Dear Prime Minister, Congratulations on your
Office
I wonder if Microsoft New Outlook, Microsoft Phone Outlook and Microsoft To Do will ever get their $hit together and present consistent options? Take, for instance, snooze times on a task reminder, you can set a great range of options on a New Calendar Item (1), but at the time
i was listening to this, podcast link below, and the recent news of tech CEO pilgrimages to Florida to meet with the incoming... Conversation with Carl Bass - Former CEO of Autodesk and Maker of All Things Awesome | Manufacturing Spaces By Pete Oxenham This week Carl joins us to share
Automobile
Having read it, paper or digital, since February 1979 (right) I was sad to cancel my Car Magazine U.K digital subscription when they stopped supporting browser reading. You can only read the 'digital print' issues on Apple or Android devices. I am sorry to advise that our
Happy New Year! Another year has flown by, time to look back from a bloggy/social media (not just CAD blog) perspective at the year: 'Me' on the web Twenty three, and a bit, years after starting a blog I finally got around to getting my own domain
RobiNZ CAD Blog: CAD, Design, IT & Web Stuff – http://rcd.typepad.com/rcd/ * The Anniversary Posts (with Visitor Stats as available) * March 2024 - 20th Anniversary! * March 2023 - 19th Anniversary! * March 2022 - 18th Anniversary and I forgot as was cycling in Wellington! * March 2021 - 17th Anniversary!
Weblogs
see Happy New Year, and a look back 2024's Blogging Highlights - RobiNZ CAD Blog
I missed the limited cinema screening of this, was good to see on DocPlay. A timely and intimate look at one of NZ's greatest architectural partnerships. It also documents the unnecessarily destructive aspects of the Christchurch quake recovery, which almost claimed one of their finest works: The Christchurch