RobiNZ Personal Blog

Bing Chat GPT slips?

Ask the Microsoft Bing (Chat GPT powered) how up to date its database is and it seems to slip. A true answer is visually backspaced, to be replaced by PR? Watch it happen here. Bing answers truthfully Bing rolls back to this Read more →

Over a century, and about a week, of memorials...

It's ANZAC day today and my Great Grandfather, Ernest Bock, was one of so many who went to war and didn't come back. On Saturday I attended the celebration of Paul Rodler’s life. A work colleague, friend, who drove to work on Monday 17th April and, after a tragic road collision, didn't come back. Although we both left TWG a few years ago still used to catch up occasionally. Last time, in early Feb, he gave me heaps (as was his style) for turning up to dinner on a bicycle, on my work bike/train commute, even more so when I... Read more →

A Fiat 132!

The first Fiat I drove, back in the late 70s, was a 132. A very rare sight now in New Zealand, anywhere, so had to snap this when I saw one (the white saloon in the background) this morning when I stopped at the pharmacy on the way to work. It was a newer model, but there is no way I'd ever see our family 132 on the road again... Read more →

Memories of Antarctica

When the random TV screen saver (of my content) transports you straight back to Antarctica, a couple of years after visiting 🙂 The day: Kayaking, a landing and endless evening from Antarctic Mission 2019 - RobiNZ Personal Blog (typepad.com) Read more →

Frankie in the engine bay #DumbCatSmartTag

Bizarre Frankie, the inherited #cat, story. Have collar with name tag & #smarttag as still roams to visit old home about 1km away. He arrived home without collar/tag, is designed to release, not strangle. I tracked to a neighbour's SUV, on their drive, it 'beeped' near front with tag chime. Could not see it, they opened bonnet & found collar, tag attached, dangling off a metal pipe that ran across behind the top end of the engine! Modern car, had squeezed up thru undertray hole by exhaust... Read more →