Comedy
Earl is coming back to live in New Zealand. That means organising all manner of things, including a mobile phone. His experience with Vodaphone is not encouraging… A Networked World: A Broken Sy...
Valencia Sailing pull no punches but… they did! Valencia Sailing: Louis Vuitton Cup - Finals - Day 3: Emirates Team NZ thrash Luna Rossa In this morning preview we asked who was to blame for Lun...
It was a shock to discover that a respected Kiwi Blogger died suddenly last Wednesday.
ANZAC
I’m in the USA today so there will be no local ANZAC Day commemoration. ANZAC Day - Memory of Private ERNEST THEODORE BOCK
I think it’s known as “Barn Dance crossing” due to the sometimes weird interactions of everyone meeting in the middle: All the lights are red Pedestrians crossing From all corners At th...
I enjoy “Dodery Old Farts” blog but had to link to this post to highlight the fine work of Highway Refurbishers and to steal perhaps the finest ever line written about Piopio. A Night Out - Rest...
Music
In a world of iThis Download that it seems strange that a “Record Shop” can be part of your life… The news that the Marbeck family have sold their “Record Store” (first opened in 1934) made me thin...
Adventure South
Part of a recent cycle tour involved an overnight stay at Otematata and lap of Lake Aviemore (over Benmore Dam). Most, even me the “token Kiwi”, were puzzled why there’s a 60 room hotel and little els...
Automobile
Cool, just noticed I can keep up to date with news on Fiat in New Zealand with their RSS news feed. Subscribed! Official Fiat New Zealand website - http://www.fiat.co.nz/ Official Fiat New Zea...
Adventure South
RobiNZ CAD Blog: Shutdown Week ends, back from "the Maniototo" Shutdown week is over. It was a brilliant week of cycling in the South Island, mainly an area known as “the Maniototo". It’s a remote...
Adventure South
RobiNZ CAD Blog: The time has come to shutdown... I’m not going to participate in the March 24th Shutdown Day as I’m going further and having a Shutdown Week! I will be cycling in the South Island with Adventure South. The blue dashed line on the map below
I received an email, via the blog, from Swedish Television regarding a subtitles they are preparing for the film Whale Rider . They queried the meaning of a couple of Maori words – one I thought wa...