Vale to my Samsung Active 2 Smart Watch
Vale to my Samsung Active 2 smart watch which finally died today while I was doing housework.
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Going green: Electric, Hybrid or...?
Are EV's a FAD?
Web/Tech
Bing Chat GPT slips?
Ask the Microsoft Bing (Chat GPT powered) how up to date its database is and it seems to slip. A true answer is visually backspaced, to be replaced by PR? Watch it happen here. Bing answers truthfully Bing rolls back to this
Over a century, and about a week, of memorials...
It's ANZAC day today and my Great Grandfather, Ernest Bock, was one of so many who went to war and didn't come back. On Saturday I attended the celebration of Paul Rodler’s life. A work colleague, friend, who drove to work on Monday 17th April
End of an era, as Autodesk leaves Shaan Hurley
On Tuesday 30 March 2004, I posted this on TypePad: Getting Started This is the first post to see how it all works. Read other weblogs, thought I'd have a go myself. RobiNZ CAD Blog The reason I chose TypePad, then a new'ish (public launch October
A Fiat 132!
A rare, even when new, survivor
Memories of Antarctica
How you never escape
Frankie
Frankie in the engine bay #DumbCatSmartTag
Bizarre Frankie, the inherited #cat, story. Have collar with name tag & #smarttag as still roams to visit old home about 1km away. He arrived home without collar/tag, is designed to release, not strangle. I tracked to a neighbour's SUV, on their drive, it 'beeped'
March 2023 - 19th Anniversary!
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time. Nineteen years since that first tentative post! I really appreciate the connections blogging, and more recently on Mastodon (since I abandoned Twitter) & Facebook, have enabled. @robincapper on Twitter Won't delete this account but I've made it private
Missing Greg at the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival 2023
I'm not there
Time Out Drive/Cycling Exploring New Zealand 2021 - 2022
Ten months exploring New Zealand
Automobile
My last Car?*
I just cancelled my print subscription to Car (magazine U.K.). I have been buying it monthly, one way or another, since February 1979. It was probably the Fiat 131 Racing on the cover which first got 13-year-old Robin’s attention, but the contents had me hooked. ** It's