Archive for May, 2008

Blackout

Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous | 2 Comments »

Last night I intended to do update posts on the Westfield Downtown and council geodata issues, but the power cable on my MacBook had other ideas. No one should have to see black scorch marks on their laptop power cable. It ...

Reply from Westfield

Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in Auckland | No Comments »

Westfield has kindly emailed me the original question (part of?) from the NZ Herald (presumedly asked by Rudman himself) and their reply: Email from NZ Herald – 21 April 2008 [Note from Westfield: NZ Herald asked Westfield NZ to comment on the ...

Eye luffs teh Koordinates

Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Geodata | 9 Comments »

So this is what ArcGIS is good for: Or, as Rob named it, a 'geololcat'. A world first? And there's more.

The plot thickens but the tower continues

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Auckland | 1 Comment »

The plot thickens. Rudman has written in the Herald about the Westfield tower and the theoretical Mt Eden loop underground train tunnel. Previous snarky discussion here. Rudman's column is fairly informative compared to the original Herald coverage, but the headline is ...

Odd many-legged insect

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Photos | No Comments »

Is it technically even an insect? I still have it stored away in a container, in the off chance it's a weird genetic mutant conceived near my rubbish bin. [flickr]photo:2458630238[/flickr] Really important update: According to Gene of Flybusters, it's a common centipede. ...

Belunted post

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous | 1 Comment »

By pure coincidence, this guy was playing in Auckland the other night. Normally I run into people on the ferry who are coming back from Vector performances, but on Wednesday I wasn't working in the CBD. So I'm none the wiser ...