Family
I didn’t know either directly but today marks the passing of two McLarens. Bruce McLaren, who founded McLaren Racing, died forty years ago and David McLaren, a colleagues father (and not related), was farewelled by family & friends today. In one of those small world connections I discovered David
What it says to me is there must be a lot of oil people commuting from Taranaki, Southland and, soon, the East Cape! What Houston to Auckland says about the 787 - FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis If ever there was a route that the 787 was designed for, this
Design and Art
Tomorrow - 11:15 Sunday 30 May ( NZ time UTC+12:00) - Graeme Hill’s Weekend Variety Wireless Radio Live “What’s My Line” spot features Kiwi Architect Pete Bossley. www.radiolive.co.nz – Broadcast Nationwide in New Zealand on FM, a Web live stream and web audio archive for a
Dana has a great post on how Civil 3D was used for a runway safety extension project at NZQN. BIM on the Rocks: Civil 3D and a New Zealand Airport I’ve introduced you to my friend Peter Thomson a few times. Last week, Peter sent me some pictures of
Although his run ended with retirement (engine damage) it was great to see Albert Llovera in the Fiat Abarth Grande Punto this weekend. Last time I remember seeing a Fiat competing was back the late 1970s (Fulvio Baxxhelli & Francesco Rossetti won Rally NZ in a Fiat Abarth 131 in
Recently the April issue of Autocar (NZ) appeared in my mailbox. I was initially perplexed as I don’t subscribe to it but then noticed a (printed) sticker with the words “incorporating Driver”. I have subscribed to Driver since issue one so that was the connection. A few weeks earlier
Google’s blog recently announced that Unitec, my old tech (then known as Carrington Technical Institute), deployed Google Apps to its students across four campuses. When I was there in the mid-eighties there was no Google, let alone web applications, and a few thousand students shared one campus. The
Today is ANZAC Day which commemorates the New Zealanders killed in war and honours returned servicemen and women. It’s always a time to reflect, just one of the millions was my Mums Grandfather who died on the battlefield in the last few months of World War One (which ended
UPDATE 2010-04-20: Back to full speed broadband. How did we ever do anything with dial-up! Thank you to @VodafoneNZ for the 3G data (part of my iPhone plan) that kept me sane/going through the slowdown! This was tweeted but I’ll capture it here: @TelecomNZ Instead
A long and interesting overview of the New Zealand Food retail scene, including The Warehouse foray… Big two supermarket chains locked in fierce food fight - Business - NZ Herald News The grocery industry, lest we forget, is basically trench warfare, Tim Morris insists...
Had forgotten this until Graeme Hill played it this afternoon. Funny Business from sometime in the 80s but it could be our Rugby World Cup anthem. http://www.youtube.com/v/GRRYAzgKPTs&hl=en_US&fs=1&&hl=en<\/embed><\/object><
I don’t know Peter, other than via following his his “Not PC” personal blog for several years, but do like his style. Have a look at his architectural blog which recently launched with a lot of content. While it is a “commercial blog”, as features his work, there are
