I had a “lifestyle leave” day off work today. It’s a great initiative where you ‘buy’ five or ten days extra holiday (with a pay reduction) to use however you want. Part of changing jobs is you go back to zero leave owing so it was a good way
AutoCAD
Software Updates, Service Patches, Bug Fixes. Call them what you will they come around fairly frequently. However, this AutoCAD 2018 & AutoCAD LT 2018 update for an earlier update comes with a rare instruction to install this month! Check out Heidi’s blog post for more details and how to
Religion
This is more of a ‘cemetery dog walk thought’ but it occurred to me at the lights on the way home. It is surprising how many people in the cemetery didn’t die. They passed, rest in peace, joined [whatever version of the creator they chose to believe in], or
While researching new bikes I found this article from 2015 about riding the Alps 2 Ocean Trail on an Avanti Giro AR C1 cyclo-cross (CX) bike. At the time I didn’t realise I would be buying one but was looking at it’s cousin; the alloy frame AR 2.
Science
A few dollars could change the world, save many lives, and you can help The world is running out of effective antibiotics. In fact, it is one of the greatest threats to health today. For many of us, this means that common infections could once again cause death. A grazed
According to the owners manual a Fiat Bravo HGT has a 60 litre fuel tank. Today I proved after 638.8 kilometres commuting you can put 59.53 litres in so that capacity must be about right. I know you shouldn’t run it that close, my usual fill is
A day in a loan car, while the FSM had its 230,000km service, showed that BMW* turn indicators reliably indicate turns. The brakes are also sufficient to allow stopping for red intersection and motorway on-ramp lights. It also reminded me how awful an old fashioned torque convertor auto is
I read this article ages ago and couldn’t find it again. Then, there it was referenced in an article by ExperiencePlus cycle tours. Filed here for future reference! Perfect Pedaling: Get a Better Pedal Stroke - www.bicycling.com Get the most energy from each crank revolution with these
Fiat
Nice to see science based car badging on the morning commute. My FSM Fiat was following a Honda Jazz with a Darwin Fish badge down Rosebank Rd. It helped provide a data point for my hypothesis that light controlled motorway on ramps are the only time you should choose to
It has been like this a while, so eventually had to stop and take a photo of this sign. Not funny in itself, but they are a fastener company… UPDATE 2017-05-05: After seeing this for several weeks (on my morning commute) I finally remembered to pull over and take a
Cycling
I’m not really a gear freak, as will become apparent, but decided it was time for a new bike. How hard could that be… What did I want, why? My dear (as in endearing, not expensive) old Avanti Triplo is nearly 15 years old. It was a pretty modest
Although I didn’t attend a memorial service the day does not pass without remembering those who have served, one in particular. My Mum never knew her Grandfather who died on the battlefield in the last few weeks of World War One (which ended 11th November – 1918). Although born in
