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Back On the Yard

By ⋅ September 18, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

car-partsI had a massive flashback on Sunday. A flashback to the days of running a beat-up old car. Spending weekends underneath it, fixing something or modifying something else. A flashback of trips to the car wrecking yard, taking home something that ‘might just fit’, returning later to find something that’ll ‘surely bolt straight on’, before finally fixing and refitting the original part.

Ben.geek.nz

By ⋅ February 27, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

In case you are a hadn’t noticed, I’ve changed my main domain name.  Gadgetophile.com still works fine and will continue to redirect all traffic to the new domain, but I just didn’t feel it described the site anymore.  Back in the day I tended to focus mainly on gadgets, but the site has become so [...]

Genesis loses focus…

By ⋅ July 20, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

This is brilliant. With my Genesis power bill I got not one, but two brochures telling me about how my power company is focusing on climate change. Two identical brochures printed on high-quality, bleached, heavy stock. I guess they’re not too focused on reducing wastage or energy spent on printing and processing. Here’s an idea [...]

Improve Your Life

By ⋅ July 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Like so many things I read, I find cognitive therapy to be basically codified common sense. The same thing applies to project management, money management, negotiation, ad infinitum. The market for books on the subjects makes me reconsider if these things are in face common sense. Still, I find a lot of excellent stuff when [...]

Searching the AOL Search Records

By ⋅ August 9, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

No doubt you’ve heard about AOL’s colossal screw-up, whereby they released hundreds of thousands of ‘anonymous’ search queries for the purposes of public research. Downloaders quickly discovered that because each search term is tagged by a user id, it is very easy to look at the search habits of a particular anonymous surfer and discover [...]

Unfair Competition

By ⋅ July 6, 2006 ⋅ 14 comments

Here’s a very interesting set of circumstances that highlights the absolute atrocity that is broadband internet provisioning in New Zealand. We are moving house in a couple of weeks time. I have booked the telephone line move with Telecom (NZ’s monopoly phone line provider), and then asked about shifting our ADSL connection. They told me [...]

Serendipitous Frogs

By ⋅ July 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

So the French football team pull another one out of the bag, ousting the Portugese and taking France through to their second World Cup final. As much as football is a team game, France really has to thank the brilliant Zinedine Zidane for coming back from retirement and taking them this far. As a New [...]

Google Maps NZ Satellite Images Updated

By ⋅ July 4, 2006 ⋅ 6 comments

Google maps was already quite addictive, but now they’ve updated their satellite images of New Zealand. What was previously an unidentified blur, is now lovely and clear. Check out some interesting images: Auckland An earthmover spreading new sand over Kohimarama beach. This project was finished late last year, so the image must be from early [...]

Newsflash: Batteries Store Energy!

By ⋅ June 22, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

I use Lithium Polymer batteries in radio control planes, and the flammability of these batteries under high load (charging or discharging) has been known for ages. There have been several examples of R/C modellers losing rooms, workshops or garages to fire when charging LiPos unattended, and a lot of us use fireproof boxes (or old [...]

Google Trends: In Pictures

By ⋅ May 12, 2006 ⋅ 6 comments

Google Trends is a pretty neat new addition to the Google arsenal. What does it do? The easiest way to explain is in pictures (click the images to hit the details). Clash of the Titans: Seasonality: Home field advantage?: Get the general idea? The full pages have some more stats broken down by region and [...]

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