Archive for April, 2008

Council staff and their attitudes towards geodata requests

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Posted in Geodata | No Comments »

Many interesting things to ponder in this posting to a GIS discussion list used by NZ council employees and other GIS people. The REDACTED names are all current or former council people. The discussion was prompted by a request to ...

Off home

Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Photos | No Comments »

ANZAC Day 2008 at the Auckland Domain

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Photos | 11 Comments »

Very nice weather and a beautiful sunrise for the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at the Auckland Domain. Next year I'll try to make it to the Devonport service.  I didn't get many good photos as it seemed inappropriate to let off ...

Public demands demolition of NZ Herald building

Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Media | 1 Comment »

I walk up and down Albert St twice a day, to and from the ferry terminal. And every day I ponder how Albert St, surely one of the CBD's most under-utilised streets, is ruined by the extremely ugly APN/Herald building. So ...

Blunted

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Playtime | 2 Comments »

This is what I found after Googling "James Blunt torture": And this one via YouTube's excellent "related":

Home time

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Photos | 2 Comments »

The Kea does the Devonport-Auckland CBD route every 30 mins or so during the day. It has two, er, front-ends, and never turns around. Do you think they paint the north-western side more often than the south-eastern?

The Whiz Kids theme song

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Playtime | No Comments »

And a little more about the Whiz Kids...

Flickr integration

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Photos | No Comments »

Using the excellent Flickr Tag. [flickr]photo:2412066191[/flickr][flickr]photo:2411742599[/flickr][flickr]photo:2412545886[/flickr][flickr]photo:2412530758[/flickr][flickr]photo:2411691727[/flickr][flickr]photo:414599484[/flickr]