Just finished watching 'The Wildest Dream: Everest' (recorded from Sky NZ BBC Knowledge recently) and it was magnificent. Still surreal to think I will be there*, gasping that air, looking at that mountain in a few weeks... When it finished live TV was showing the end of a
Last time I saw this 'Miss Dixon' was a collection of parts in a hanger. Although it looks like a Mustang this is 3/4 size Titan T-51 kit aircraft. Well, to be more accurate, was a Titan T-51 kit as John has put a lot of effort
Giant Talon (Rapid Rob)
Took 'Rapid Rob' on our first real ride yesterday. From home headed up to the Scenic Drive where I went off road on the centennial Exhibition Drive track. It is a closed well formed gravel road which follows a water supply pipeline towards Nihotupu Dam for a couple
@CARmagazine New issue, fitting that Porsche GTS advert ‘wrap band’ was as arrogant as most Porsche. In the bin, now onto the great contents @CARmagazine new issue, shame no current Fiat (or even Fiat Group) hot hatches good enough to feature! 130TC missing though @CARmagazine new issue, Mini Cooper (mk1)
Meet what became known as 'Rapid Rob'
A cycling adventure across the Tibetan Plateau, from Lhasa to Kathmandu, with Adventure South (World Expeditions)
Noticed this change appeared this morning. #OneBigDrive #OneDrive
Life is just an endless nested =IF statement*. Guess who's been looking at @Microsoft Excel too long today. * INDEX & VLOOKUP wouldn't work
Took a friend, and Alfie, for a walk around Hobsonville Point recently. We stumbled upon the Farmers Market (now in the old flying boat hangers by the boat ramp) and k9-doggy-deli’s “Bone Appetite” stall. I must say I didn’t buy this. My American ‘cuz'sis’ treated Alfie
Might be able to avoid the Rugby section in the NZ Herald Windows Phone app but can't escape the Rugby news.
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While buying my ticket to TEDx Auckland 2014 remembered I’d never gotten around to writing a post about the 2013 event. Earlier this year there was some flack about TED, prompted it seems by some ‘dubious’ TEDx events. From my experience at TEDx Auckland it certainly wasn’t one
My first impression of AutoCAD 2015: This looks different! A couple of presentations at the AutoCAD Blogger Day gave an insight into how changes in development methods, hardware/operating system capabilities and cloud infrastructure have driven evolution of the AutoCAD “platform” on, and beyond, the desktop. We’re not in