I was going to head to the Waikato chasing WRC Rally New Zealand but spending most of yesterday sorting out some other travel meant today was the only option. At best I would only see one or two stage...
Just a few hours from possibly the last America’s Cup race for 2007 the news reports are using words like “battle” and “fight” as if they are reporting a war. While the odds are against Emirates Te...
No, I don’t think that but imagine the uproar if a major news organisation published that. Apparently it’s OK to be as bigoted about men if you read the article linked to below. Its “casual Friday’ ev...
New Zealand
Air New Zealand have announced they are getting tough on overweight baggage. "This new X-bag system is designed to ensure that we more closely control baggage weight, and fuel use. Every extra kilo...
Scott Adams finds the most obscene letter isn’t A – Z! The Dilbert Blog: The Most Obscene Letter If you ask me, the most obscene letter in the alphabet is…
Mixed feelings...
Shocking news via Boing Boing. I predict a hoard of US based Aussies heading home for a fix. In New Zealand you are either a Marmite or Vegemite person: It’s Vegemite for me! I’ve noticed on the cy...
New Zealand
Our local paper has a story about Waitakere City Council (WCC) cancelling a 32 car order for Holden Barinas after learning of it’s dismal ANCAP 2 Star crash test rating . WCC run the previous model...
Waitakere City Council, to whom I pay rates, is prosecuting itself for not following it’s own process. What the…? Waitakere council to take itself to court - 13 Oct 2006 - Building construction...
Well why not, we could build a levitating 60,000 seat staduim held up by Telekinesis and float it around Auckland to the various citoes as needed. Crazy idea, well it’s no worse than the stupid idea o...
This was published back in August but I only just found it today, honest! It’s similar to my own recent rant on the same subject. Car magazines: Don't write them off yet | Independent Online Edition Indeed, Car Magazine has adopted a new square format to focus more
I’ve long been a reader of CAR Magazine and have read, subscribed to, a New Zealand car magazine Driver from it’s first issue. I still regard CAR as the best “World Title”, Driver the “Best local”. It’s strange that both have dabbled with the web in the
