For years I have seen Corrections NZ Prisoner transfer vans on the motorway heading North in the morning commuter traffic. They are distinctive and all have a prominent identification in the form of the letters CAN followed by a number. I’ve always wondered what the CAN indicated, an abbreviation?
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Normally a dusk dog walk in the cemetery would not worry me but I saw something rather spooky tonight. It wasn't supernatural but I did wonder what about a dozen cars cruising slowly around, seemingly following sat nav maps, was about until one went past close enough to
BIM AK August registration is open, see you there! Thursday 23rd August, 5.30-8.00pm The August event will be focused on BIM in Construction featuring a presentation from Gabor Gulyas of PDC Group on the $3.5b Brisbane Queens Wharf project, along with a construction industry panel discussion.
It’s not quite Top Gear…
Sad to see this news tonight about Sergio Marchionne: Sergio Marchionne, who engineered the merger of Fiat and Chrysler and revived their fortunes, died at the age of 66 https://t.co/94sQvzlLgt — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 25, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Starting with an
Rather than fix the problem - variation of bridge surface treatments from good anti-slip to none along the Henderson Cycle Path - the answer is a new "No Cycling" sign. Other stretches with the same surface further along have use signs at all. Other places nearer Hwy 16 and
It was more by chance, than planning, that I ended up in Jeff Stewart’s session at Autodesk University 2017 (AU2017) last November. I was talking to some Microsoft representatives in the exhibit hall and they mentioned it was on the following day. Somehow, I had overlooked it while setting
I saw a tweet comparing U.S.A. / U.K. road toll statistics: I'd say you wouldn't want to drive on US roads on holiday this summer. The UK has a population of 65m; the US is six times bigger at 325m. However, deaths on UK
I still use CorelDRAW for graphics, old habits die hard and I like it, but could not get my veteran 2012 version to run on my Surface Book (Windows 10 1803). It installed ok, started and displayed the splash screen for a while, then vanished. Since it was pretty old,
Fascinating look at the CERN, European Organisation for Nuclear Research, LHC facility captured by laser scanners: Inside CERN - lidarnews.com “The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is situated 100 meters below ground at CERN and is considered the biggest single machine on the planet. It is also the location of one
Design and Art
I haven’t modelled with, or thought much about, LEGO for decades—the photo below is my collection in the mid-1970s, my first building models—but recently created a logon for the LEGO IDEAS site. The motivation was to support an awesome Kākāpō bird project. The real Kākāpō is
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First cycle ride up Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill since the road was closed to cars. So nice and packed with humans and dogs enjoying the walk without traffic. Much more peaceful on the summit without the constant carpark shuffle, and for once no drones!
