A landscape of senility. We could not get the a/c power to work in the van even after fault testing with a detector. We checked all breakers including one hidden underneath a cupboard after phoning the help line. So we went to a RV service centre and found out the fault was that I had […]
Breakfast and rain. Heading vaguely in the direction of New Plymouth this morning. Lunch at Piopio. Afternoon tea somewhere in Taranaki. That’s the Elephant Rock in the distance. And so to New Plymouth, a town I first visited in 1979 being a client rep for Shell, BP and Todd on a geophysical survey near the […]
I have been fascinated with the Newsletter concept since, as a teenager, I used to cut stencils for our local Youth Hostel group and later University publications in Earth Science. So I found it an interesting challenge and having recently joined a local Heritage group (for whom I put a database of PDF Newsletters online) […]
The challenge was a makeover of a piece of US government web-based training: NOTE: This is not a complete course, just enough to give an idea. https://community.articulate.com/articles/give-this-ethics-training-course-a-makeover. This will give you a flavor of the original site: With this kind of thing you do need to take into account the conservative nature of government departments, […]
I first visited New Zealand in 1979 and again in 1980 but I’m not sure that I have photos, maybe somewhere. Of course it was a totally different experience then, a long trip too. Returning on BA 001 took something like 30 hours with stops (no getting off) in Sydney, Perth, Bombay and Frankfurt as […]
Just Another Sunday in Godzone Big walk this morning, Pirongia Mountain Nikau loop track. We did walk to the shop and back as well so nearly 11km today in pursuit of our 100km in 14 days. We are still officially at Level 3 lockdown but as it has been over 10 days so hopefully tomorrow […]