I’ve kept family post(s) re the Christchurch Earthquake over on my other blog but have updated the banner here to show the first picture from my first ride with Adventure South back in 2003. It was along the Port Hills overlooking the quake epicentre Diamond Harbour/Lyttleton on
I’ve pinned this post to stay at the top of my blog and have been jotting EQNZ thoughts into a single post. It also has some links to EQNZ info for readers (and me!). UPDATE 2011-03-31: I spent two nights in Christchurch before & after my cycle
See this post on my CAD Blog
Weblogs
At about this time I do a Blog related review of the year so here goes… Best Blog Discovery: Last year it was Twitter & TweetDeck, This year it’s Twitter Lists. Lists allow you to group and see tweeps tweets without “following them”. Using this I went from following
Today my TypePad filter showed 1599 spam blog comments automatically blocked. One got through and I found it, word for word, on more than forty other blogs (2 seconds with Bing & Google). It’s stuff like this that makes me have moderation even though it’s not my preference.
I joined the TypePad Meetup Group so would be aware if any meetings coincided with my, very, occasional visits to San Francisco. Through that I discovered this new San Francisco blogger meet-up. Unfortunately my next visit won’t be until November, and only for a couple of hours on
TypePad
I don’t usually repost a full blog post but the one you see below is rather important to the future of this blog! Six Apart (Typepad’s owner) are “joining forces” with “media” (advertising company) VideoEgg. Mergers can bring good or bad. I hope this means a better TypePad
Got this message today from Six Apart. I liked Vox and hoped it’s superior media embedding/library system (books, video etc) would be adopted on TypePad, but no sign of that yet. I suspect one less platform to concentrate on will help TypePad development but recent changes there, like
This banner is the view of the other side of where I live. Great area for walking, road cycling and that dam is drinking water that goes from bush, to dam, to tap without needing to travel by bottle (and for a fraction of the price). Lower Nihotupu Dam &
A view from the Waitakere Ranges of: Waitakere City, Auckland CBD, North Shore, Rangitoto (Volcanic cone) and, in the far distance, Coromandel Peninsular. I actually live 370m below this, in the foreground, so usually see this view, puffing, after cycling up the hill. The road is called "The Scenic
I was happy with this analysis, from the text of a TAMOz related post, as the first one I tried said "Dan Brown"! I write like Isaac Asimov I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! I wish I did write like Isaac. I’ve
A few days ago a post asked Are you human? Prove it! by sending an email. It was a rather unscientific way to see how web stats relate to actual readers who will take action in a 24 hour period. So what happened in the stats? * According to the site
