RobiNZ Personal Blog

I offended Microsoft Bing's Chat 'artificial intelligence'

I asked the new Bing AI chat about me. "What is the new Bing? The new Bing is like having a research assistant, personal planner, and creative partner at your side whenever you search the web. With this set of AI-powered features, you can: Ask your actual question. When you ask complex questions, Bing gives you detailed replies. Get an actual answer. Bing looks at search results across the web to offer you a summarized answer. Be creative. When you need inspiration, Bing can help you write poems, stories, or even share ideas for a project. In the chat experience,... Read more →

My photo in "The Conversation"

I like 'The Conversation' website and get the NZ edition weekly email newsletter. Read it today and thought a photo, on an article about arts funding, looked a bit like one I took in Auckland Art Gallery. Clicked on the link to find they had picked up my photo from Flickr 🙂 It was taken in Jan 2022, visited the Gallery before the The Big Bike Film Night screening We need to break the cycle of crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand’s arts and culture. It starts with proper funding James Wenley, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Aotearoa’s... Read more →

A wonderful Antarctic Sketchbook and Blog

Clicked on a LinkedIn comment, on a post by a CAD world connection, and thought I recognised an Antarctic location in the profile header photo. A web search soon had me at Margaret Plumley's lovely sketchbook from a trip similar to my 2019 Dr Karl Expedition. Her blogs about trip are here, and the sketchbook... Margaret Plumley - Antarctica 2021 sketchbook - Sketches and paintings from the trip Published on Dec 29, 2021 Read more →

Cycling to look at the new electric and hybrid Italians

The Fiat 500e, but not yet the Abarth 500e, is just being launched in NZ. I got an email invite from Andrew Sims who had the 500e press preview car for test drives today (Sat Feb 11) & tomorrow prior to the Autumn public release. Decided not to waste their (limited) time booking one—as I won't be buying—but was curious to see the 500e in the metal. I typically go for a bike ride on Sunday but with Cyclone Gabrielle approaching, forecast arrival Sunday evening through to Tuesday, Saturday was a better bet. The morning was dedicated to my usual... Read more →

Congratulations Adventure South, 30th Anniversary!

So true, I didn't write the script for this video, but could have because experienced it... Congratulations on thirty years Adventure South NZ, who I've travelled with since 2003. Read more →