RobiNZ Personal Blog

The Skyline Meme Viewer

The Skyline meme has a new site & viewer. This allows much easier viewing of the existing skylines + a form to submit your own! Great work from Cameron at blog.photoblogs.org The Skyline Project Welcome to the Skyline Project, a wonderful idea from the mind of Stu Savory. The inspiration came to Stu whilst visiting the site of one of his blog's callers. Read more →

The Skyline Meme

This is cool, a growing collection local skylines from around the world. Add the skyline in your area - I did! Many blogreaders have taken a liking to the Skyline Meme which I started last Wednesday. Just take a photo of your local skyline, blog it, link to the Skyline Meme Permalink & mail me your permalink so that I can link back to it here. I'm no photographer, just a lowly wordsmith who puts the occasional snapshot in his blog (usual over in the right sidebar someplace), but some blogreaders are so-called Photobloggers (a scene new to me) who... Read more →

Blogging tools reviewed

Neville has a great review of Blogjet and Ecto on his Blog "NevOn". These are "standalone" tools that help with composing and posting Blog articles. The strengths and weakness of each are discussed in detail. His comments about the changes planned for Blogjet Version 1.2 are promising. I tried Version 1 and the problem with category posting and lack of thumbnail pictures for TypePad were my only reservations. I will have a look at 1.2 when it arrives. Read more →

Grand Prix History

I found this today while Googling "duckworth building". Not what i was looking for (a building in Napier) but a wonderful site for anyone interested in Grand Prix; Past and present. Grand Prix History This website has been in existence since May 22, 1997 and for much of that time it has been a little known secret tucked in a small corner of the WWW. Lovingly constructed, it is still one of the few F1 sites that attempts to go beyond mere statistics and describe what it was really like. Read more →

NZL-81 arrives safely in Valencia

NZL-81 arrives safely in Valencia ~ SailHead Magazine by BowmansUnion Valencia, Spain, 24th September - The second Emirates Team New Zealand race boat, NZL-81, landed safely in Valencia early in the afternoon on Friday after a long trip from Auckland, New Zealand. The boat is a replacement for NZL-82, which was seriously damaged in a storm in Marseille after Act 1. The logistical hurdles for bringing NZL-81 to Spain in time for the Valencia Louis Vuitton Acts 2 and 3 were immense.... Cont. Read more →

Sony aims at the iPod - but not with MP3

More on tthe new Sony portables from www.newswireless.net News - Sony aims at the iPod - but not with MP3 despite rumours Read more →

Sony to support MP3

This is a major change to the previous ATRAC only support. Sony confirmed on Wednesday that it is working to add native MP3 support to its portable music players--a major strategy reversal...[cont] Sony to support MP3 | CNET News.com Published: September 22, 2004, 10:57 AM PDT By Christophe Guillemin , Pierre Labousset and Richard Shim Special to CNET News.com Read more →

20,000 milestone hit!

Not many compared to others, probably, but this Blog went past the 20,000 hit mark sometime today. I wonder how many come back? Total number of hits:20101 Average per day:116.87 Today:516 This week:1160 Read more →

Industrial Wonders Indeed

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is now about halfway through its run on Prime NZ. I have found this series is proving to be as good pre-publicity claimed. Tonight the topic was "Basalt's London sewers" so it wasn't a visual attraction. It was a fascinating insight into the man responsible for how much of London looks today. The Transcontinental Railway, Panama Canal, and Hoover Dam are still to screen. Will be keen to see the Hoover Dam as will be seeing it on my AU trip. Screens on Prime TV (New Zealand) 20:30 Wednesdays. Read more →

Jeanette Wilson: Heaven sent?

There is an interesting background article in The Listener regarding the recent 20/20 item about the Taranaki psychic Jeanette Wilson. I wrote to 20/20 about this item soon after it screened: "I hope that Melanie Reid is going to do a follow up story with an objective analysis of the readings Jeanette Wilson gave in the 20/20 programme last night. As we only saw edited versions apart from the performance (I think this is the correct word) that was shown in full. It would be very simple to sit with the tapes and simply count the yes, no, maybes for... Read more →