QotD: Via Snail Mail
When did you last write/receive a handwritten, snail-mail letter? Who was it to/from? Submitted by Places Unknown. So long ago I really can't remember!
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Fiat + Microsoft EcoDrive Data log - Better than fuel receipts and Excel!
Fiat’s Blue Me system is to allow data logging of economy and performance to it’s USB key for later analysis on your computer. Frankfurt 2007: Fiat/Microsoft announce Ecodrive data-logging softw...
Rally driver feared dead in crash
Colin is a legend. Thoughts are with the family and friends involved, whoever they are. Rally driver feared dead in crash Former world rally champion Colin McRae is believed to have been killed along with three others in a helicopter crash… Rally driver feared dead in crash Former world rally
Julian Bencito - Future Architect?
Click through for the full story of a remarkable school project. It’s a Building Model of a city. Too long ago to think about an inspiring teacher let me make hundreds of paper planes. Years later,...
Autodesk University 2007 Podcast Series
Stumbled on this podcast tonight while on the Autodesk University site. Looks like it will be the first of many in the wind up to AU2007. I’ve booked the conference but trying to decide between a shor...
Web/Tech
The future, a look at 1999 from 1967
I’d finished my email, just done some Internet banking, checked out a few things on Amazon and decided to get back to reading that book on Google. It’s been on my “ must read heap ” for far too long b...
New Bruce McLaren Trust Website Launched
The Bruce McLaren Trust website has been redesigned and re-launched with loads of new content covering the Bruce McLaren Story, Heritage and Trust activities. The site was developed by Parkside Media...
Fiat
Fiat Topolino, a micro-Fiat to take on Smart?
Will Fiat do a sub-500 car, will be called Topolino? Smart haven’t exactly made a fortune in this market but with Fiat economy of scale perhaps it’s worthwhile. I imagine fitting something like thi...
Fiat Bravo, not Ritmo, set to arrive in New Zealand in September!
At first it was a Bravo but then, like Aussie, it was going to be a Ritmo . Now Fiat New Zealand have announced when Fiat’s mid-size hatch arrives in September will be badged Bravo! “With Fiat b...
Satellite tracked Godwit expected in NZ today - 30,000 km to Alaska & back!
It’s a long-haul flight to nearly everywhere from New Zealand. Often you crawl off the plane with a sense of achievement for merely surviving the flight. Spare a thought for the little Godwit “E7” who...
Rugby World Cup - New Zealand Vs Italy
I’m not a Rugby fan, I think there are two of us in New Zealand, but you can’t avoid knowing the whole thing kicks off for us tonight with: vs Go Italy! Did I blog that?
The 50 Worst Cars of All Time - TIME
Fiat (Group) make TIME’s list with the 1998 Fiat Multipla and 1980 Ferrari Mondial 8. They claim the Ferrari Mondial is: Slow – Relative thing surely. Ugly – Well it does prove Pininfarina...