Drive/Cycling Exploring Northland, Napier Wairarapa, New Zealand | Time Out 2025
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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
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Microsoft Copilot: Ai'lies or time Co'fusion?
So I asked Microsoft Copilot: December 11th @ 12:00 PM Pacific US in NZ time? Sure thing! 12:00 PM on December 11th in Pacific Time (PT) converts to 9:00 AM on December 12th in New Zealand Standard Time (NZST). If you need any more conversions or have other
Transport Minister Simeon Brown raises road incident risks
Sent today regarding changes to reverse community consulted speed limit reductions: From: Robin Capper Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2024 7:08 AM To: Simeon Brown <Simeon.Brown@parliament.govt.nz> Subject: Regarding speed limits and safety Dear Minister, I live in West Auckland and mostly commute to the
Adventure South | An Index of my Travels
I have done so many trips with Adventure South I had to make a list to count them. Trips 1-11 were led, many custom designed, by long-time* Adventure South Guide (now friend, cycling and life mentor) Bas Kruisselbrink. He's now on another adventure, still cycling, but the team
Kiwi affordable housing design, build, operation innovator
I posted this on my personal blog, but it has a lot of design and construction innovation. Simplicity Living is a non-profit retirement/investment fund that is building high quality affordable rental (they'll own and operate) and rent to own (they'll fund) housing. It's
It's simple, when you know how | simplicity living . kiwi
It was great to visit the Simplicity Living Productivity Hub today and learn more about how they are building high quality affordable rental (they'll own), and rent to buy (they'll fund) housing that I own 0.0000[insert many more zeros]001% of via a portion
The best GBU mention ever!
Last night I posted this comment (without the image) on a 'The Intercooler' article by Mel Nichols about the history of the iconic Car Magazine Good, Bad, Ugly (GBU) pages: My favourite* GBU line was the 1983 (still have the August issue) 'Sum up' for a
Wonderful memories of Antarctica, thanks Karl Watson
Watching another Karl's (Watson's recent trip
A fine tribute to 'New Zealand's Unknown Genius', Beatrice (Hill) Tinsley
A brilliant video, a fine tribute to a remarkable life. Years, no decades!, ago I vaguely knew of Beatrice Tinsley's work, on the life of galaxies, but would not have been able to name her. Then The Warehouse, who I worked for, rented some factory space in Beatrice
Impressive service for an affordable AIRROBO P20 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
I'd long thought about getting a robot vacuum cleaner to do 'between real clean tidying' but wasn't up to spending the sort of money the market leader's command. My 'real' home vacuum is a commercial backpack PacVac Superpro 700. It
Capper Peak, Jenny Island, Antarctica!
The family name in Antarctica?
Andrew Powell And The Philharmonia Orchestra... A Sony D50, Forty years on...
I saw a Facebook post on an Alan Parsons Project (APP) group wishing Andrew Powell Happy Birthday and remembered a lifetime of entertainment. As an industrial design student in 1983/84 I was fascinated by the brand-new CD technology being launched at the time. Went to look at the first