Well they shouldn't. Western Springs has been used for Speedway for 75 years. For 75 years you have known that living near there means you will hear speedway every Saturday night during the speedway season. If you don't like that don't complain: live somewhere
Weblogs
When adding an image to an article I found it was a little small. The new TypePad post editor allows you to resize the image with grips. Nice!
145ft (44m) is rather too close when you are talking about aircraft separation... Link: ComPilots.com - Aviation Portal - South Korean airliner avoided mid-air collision. A South Korean Boeing 747 carrying hundreds of passengers came within 145 feet of hitting another jet...
AutoCAD
Jimmy Bergmark has just launched a new CAD related Blog with code samples, tips & trix, news and other stuff related to CAD, engineering, software development and more. Welcome to Blogging Jimmy! Link to Site: JTB World Blog If you want to subscribe using a RSS Aggregator use this: http:
MindManager
Nick Duffill (Cofounder of Gyronix) has a wonderful explaination of why mapping can be far more effective than plain text. He demonstrates how the relationship and context of information can be represented visually, by the map structure, when the actual content is totally meaningless. A great demonstration of the power
The Warehouse Group Ltd
Link: Result announcement Link: NZ Herald Business News - Red sheds' sales down 2.6 per cent. Red sheds' sales down 2.6 per cent 10.11.2004 By PETER GRIFFIN Shares in the country's largest retailer, The Warehouse, sunk to a five-year low yesterday...
Clive Anderson's Chat Room on BBC Radio 2 is a great comic review of the weeks news. My favourite quote from this weeks edition was Jeremy Hardy commenting on the US elections: "Bush has launched the war on terror but he's going to expand to
I think the agreement reached today is good news for Formula One if it means we get to see more racing. Surely cars pounding around a deserted test track do little for the sport. Ferrari is opposed but they have proved to be the best testers! Understandable that the team
Television
"Prime Chance For Holmes" to change his ways and make a decent news program not "info-tainment"? Wilson Oven reviews the possible impact of Paul Holmes shifting from TVNZ One to Prime. It signals news is now a focus for Prime but will we get any
Weblogs
Excessive use of colour, formatting * bullets * bullets 1. numered lists 2. numered lists in posts from now on is due to playing with TypePad's new "Rich Text" message editor. It now has a "Compose Post" (WYSIWYG view) and the existing Edit HTML (code view)
After they fled from F1 Ford staying in WRC for four years was a surprise . The shock is that both Peugeot and Citroen will withdraw at the end of 2005. I thought it odd that both PSA companies had WRC teams competing fiercely but the answer always given was that
Jarre
In October Jean-Michel Jarre performed the first outdoor concert in the world to be entirely in 5.1 Dolby surround. This article has some interesting background on the event staged in Beijing's Forbidden City. Article - Jean-Michel Jarre In Beijing French Electro and Chinese Tradition in Dolby
