Happy New Year, and a look back 2025's Blogging Highlights
When all my Typepad Blogs became a Ghost blog
Happy New Year!
Another year has flown by, time to look back from a bloggy/social media/media perspective at the year, and what a year!
A new home on the web
Last year, twenty-three and a bit years after starting a blog, I finally got around to getting my own domain for it and just in time. This year that became very useful as my blog host had to change. When TypePad closed down in September I settled on Ghost as the new host, but the blog can still be found at www.robincapper.net.
CAD
Still learning more about Civil 3D, QGIS and more supporting IT in a Civil Engineering company over the year with a great team. Might get around to blogging a bit more about that this year.
Most notable of the (few) cad related posts this year was sharing finding an obscure Windows disk setting that was crippling Revit files—but only those containing Structural Connections, hosted on Autodesk Construction Cloud—on some (brand new) workstations...
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Best social media related event(s):
This was not an in-person one. A fundraiser for Siouxsie that was both annoying—that she even needed it—and heartwarming in the response. It raised nearly 19x her initial $10,000 goal:
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it was great to see strong public support for Siouxsie to assist with legal costs related to her work supporting us through COVID-19
In July it was great to meet up with some of the BHN hosts (visiting from Dunedin) and other Auckland BHN Patreons:
In February it was great to meet YouTube's Ray Delahanty, also known as CityNerd at a Greater Auckland event.
Also got to take my favourite ever Auckland road cone photo (seen in Albert Park)
Best new media:
I listen, view, and support, a lot of creators added a few more to the play list this year. Some of the best to arrive in included:
Social Comment
Dr Gary PayindaNZ Health and Political commentary | Debunking the Govt Health bullshit
Craig Renney
NZ Political Economic commentary | Debunking the Govt Economic bullshit
Rob Campbell
NZ Political and Business Governance commentary
Podcasts
Keep It Light Media
Such a simple concept, wonderful podcast results. The recap 'Mid-week Mayhem' episodes are as good as the real ones
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Matt's podcast about a Dad navigating (wonderfully) gender issues in support of his children
PodBean Development
A fun, growing, virtual community built around a regular 'lunchtime walk' podcast and walking, wherever you are, in real life. For me is mostly on-line but hoping that will change as the community grows.
YouTube
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John's design analysis and comment is great|
Highly professional maritime documentaries (and now Aviation on the sister Airliner Designs) on a channel that grew from (then) teenage Mike sharing his Oceanliner illustrations
Podcast Episode
I've not listened to anything on the 'Armchair Expert' feed since David Farrier's Flightless Bird pod split from it but when I saw James L. Brooks appear had to listen. Superb
Armchair Expert
Loved this interview which spans his amazing career to date. Some wonderful insights and details about all the shows and movies
Movies:
Pike River: Perfect telling of a complex (in every respect) story
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The Ballad of Wallis Island: Local Hero is one of my favourite ever movies and this gem has a similar feel, went into the same category.
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Music (Recording):
Ben Tangle by Ben Tangle: (who has also recorded as Benny Jones & Bingo Harry). A mystical, 1-man, psychedelic folk powerhouse of trippy, tasty, nature'y tunes recorded in his canal narrowboat studio.
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The first Ben Tangle album, but not his first
Music (Live):
Bic Runga with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
Bic Runga's website
Greg Johnson | A Village Session in Mt Eden (with Ted Brown) & Vine Street 30th Anniversary Tour (Auckland full band).
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Comedy (Live):
Barnie Duncan | Oooky Pooky: Surreal mad perfection. Had not seen him live before, one of those 'because of the timing, see what it's about' Comedy Festival buys, brilliant.
John Bishop | 25 Years of stand-up: A career recap, funny as expected but also an unexpectedly emotional look into his life, before and after stand-up.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean | Peacock: Stand-up about the application process (in the U.K.) to become a foster carer could go wrong in so many ways. Kiri (who's Welsh but named for Kiri Te Kanawa) got it so right.
Her Auckland Comedy Festival performance was the last ever of the show, which had toured the U.K. for a couple of years, but there is now a shorter version radio treatment on BBC R4 titled 'Tough Crowd':
Happy New Year, let's see what 2026 brings!
Thanks for visiting, reading, following, and commenting from wherever you do.
This will be the last time for stats in this format. I have not implemented Google stats on Ghost, it has its own, so the figures below represent the year to the close of Typepad on September 30, 2025.
Boring Blog Stats (for me!)
[ ] = 2024 figures
TypePad Community: 73 [73] Following | 261 [261] Followers
Mastodon: 4400 [4100 ] Posts | 1.8K [1.7K ] Following | 747 [719 ] Followers
Bluesky(new August 2024): 1.7k [120] Posts | 1.8k [546 ] Following | 1k [185 ] Followers
Threads (new August 2024): Could not find 'thread' count | 1123K [1123K ] Following | 171 [137 ] Followers
RobiNZ CAD Blog on TypePad
Posts: 2197 [2189] | Comments: 1792 [1792] | Pages: 11 [11]
Page Views: Total: 1,629,462 [1,626,513] | Average Per Day: 53.5 [214.69]
FeedBurner Subscribers: Feeds still active but, thanks to Google, stats no longer available [158]
Most Popular Post from 2025: Kiwi affordable housing design, build, operation innovator
Most visited old post was from 2007: Align, the forgotten AutoCAD hero
RobiNZ Personal Blog on TypePad
Posts: 2536 [2525] | Comments: 1044 [1044]
Page Views: Total: 508,060 [ 504,024] | Average Per Day: 23.57 [69.63]
FeedBurner Subscribers: Feeds still active but, thanks to Google, stats no longer available [27]
Most Popular Post from 2025: Socially media influenced by Webworm's David Farrier!
Most visited old post was from 2006: The Mercedes with Ford style?
Ghost Statistics (from October 2025 onwards)
