25 August 2016

Airships - the Airlander 10 and others

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Yesterday the world's largest aircraft, the Airlander 10 crashed during its second test flight in Cardington, Bedfordshire, causing dam...
17 August 2016

Middle East Part 3

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In 1999, I crossed the border from Turkey into Syria and spent my first night in Aleppo at a hotel with dirty, blood stained sheets, do...
16 August 2016

Where does the heat go?

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We have a relatively new (2011) timber framed house.  It was built to comply fully with the current New Zealand Building Code and has glass...
15 August 2016

Middle East Part 2

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While travelling across Turkey towards Syria, we stopped in Cappadocia.  Towns like Goreme and Nevsehir are carved out of the surrounding s...
10 August 2016

Another break in transmission

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More hand surgery and more plates and screws to fix the remainder of a very complex problem:  A 30 year old injury and surgery combined wit...
24 July 2016

Middle East Part 1

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In 1999 I travelled through Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Egypt on busses, boats and trains.  In Turkey, the lira was suffering severe ...
27 June 2016

New Zealand's Relative Size Part 2

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Here's another interesting comparison from thetruesize.com  - New Zealand and South Africa at the same scale: South Africa is ove...

New Zealand's Relative Size Part 1

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As the UK looks to unhitch itself from the European Union, here is an interesting to-scale comparison of the size of NZ versus the UK and I...
25 June 2016

What's wrong with this sign?

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Or, more to the point, what's wrong with our relationship with cars? Auckland Transport's Downtown Car Park The message here...
24 June 2016

In construction, some things change, some stay the same

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In The Ten Books on Architecture (also know as De architectura ), Vitruvius (1st Century BC) complains about construction cost over-runs: ...