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
Must have strayed into the smokers section of rush hour* this morning. Sitting at the on-ramp lights at Rosebank Rd three cars had drivers smoking, hanging their arm or puffing smoke out of an open drivers window. Seems odd that they don’t want that stinky cancer inducing filth in
It’s always good to find fresh new edition of Car magazine in the post. Even better to find my photo in the May 2014 Issue My Month section! “Saw this duo from the road and had to stop for a photo. The best of car design next to something
Grafton Bridge a transit lane today (Easter Monday)? Didn’t get me, I was on a bicycle, but a bit mean on visitors who might not notice this empty bridge was closed to cars as on a busy week day.
I took Alf on a bit of a walk down my memory lane this weekend. I grew up in Massey and back then the suburb which is now West Harbour was just paddocks! There have been more than a few changes and although I am familiar with the area by
Seen in Huapai, his electorate, today. A reasonable re-locatable family home that should be quick to build. Auckland and Christchurch housing problem sorted.
Although we’ve had a bit of rain since this was taken things are still pretty dry. Auckland’s long hot summer can be seen in the form of stressed, some dead, trees and not much water in this pond. Although it is for storm water I haven’t ever
I don’t know why but traffic lights on the Shore seem to have the worst phasing of any in Auckland. You rock up to a light and it goes red, no other traffic in sight, wait, wait, wait, here comes a car, their light goes red… and I get
I passed a Speed, sorry I meant Road Safety, Camera van on the way home last night. It was policing an arrow straight 100 km/h limit motorway section on a fine sunny evening. I presume it was set to nab those doing 5–10 km/h over the limit
Until recently this was a boring raw concrete bridge pylon seen from the bike path which connects Henderson to the Corban Estate Arts Centre. This is a collection of iPhone 3GS snapshots stitched together in a click by Microsoft Live Photo “Panorama” tool.
Posts and photos from a 10-day cycle tour around Northland, New Zealand
I’ve been trying the TOMTOM traffic and finding it pretty useful but when the nice lady says: “The delay on your route is nineteen minutes, You are still on the quickest route” I wonder if ignorance actually is bliss