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A blog about everything that interests me. Woodworking, Engineering, Travel, Society, Architecture, Nature, Design and more.

07 September 2016

Almost worthless

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Travelling through Egypt in the 90's I was given some of these notes by a bank.  Despite appearances the denomination is not zero.  The...
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...
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