Sunday, September 05, 2010

Sitrep from Chch's Untouched North-east corner

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Sitrep from the absolutely untouched north-east of Chch at Waimairi Beach: 100% habitable, no liquefaction, no problems, power, water on (w...
Saturday, September 04, 2010

Rock and Roll by the sea

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Yup, the Big One (well, 7.1, anyways) has hit. Total damage at the WayMad household: one preserving jar on the pantry floor, and (boo hoo) ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Housing and the New Normal

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A good site for US housing bubbular info is Dr Housing Bubble . A few of the noobs here could do with a click over there, methinks. And yes,...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Innovation in EV's - a Cambrian Explosion

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Motoczysz has won the Isle of Man TT, just short of the magic 100mph lap speed, on an all-electric motorbike. Wheee! As the Mogambo Guru l...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Peak Oil?

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A leetle rant about those who insist that PO is here! In NZ! I told yer so! Variations on 'I told you so' are a good substitute fo...
Friday, June 11, 2010

New renewable energy source

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In a discussion about the EPA's approval to 'regulate' carbon doixide (that gas we all breathe out all the time), I came upon th...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Dylan - Neighborhood Bully

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Hadn't caught up with the lyrics till now - but my, don't they sound current? From 'Infidels'. Partial quote only. "T...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Why I quote Kipling

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That article is, simply, what I believe. Takers in NZ outnumber and can thus outvote Makers, and this will not end well. Because Makers ar...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Printing houses

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Now this is what 3D printing is really about : spraying construction material at 25dpi and making buildings (or parts thereof - it's li...
Friday, March 19, 2010

This Mess We're In (with apologies to Polly Jean)

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This (Gummint discovers that taxing property won't raise the dosh needed for tax cuts) all neatly illustrates the unfortunate corner tha...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

AGW as a belief system

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Comment over on WUWT thread about AGW and its current, shall we say, terminal thrashing about. The middle of the road stance is, surely, ad...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Accounting for Temperatures

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I’ve had a good deal of experience with accounting systems, and it has just struck me that the whole global temperature database should be c...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Harry Read Me - ClimateGate

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An entertaining read. Harry has grave qualms about the data, the methods, and his own abilities, all written up in the ReadMe text file in ...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Climategate - a few links

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The 'Hardly Screwed' epithet which envious types used to throw at the University of east Anglia's Climate Research Unit is spook...
Monday, June 08, 2009

VDH - the Reckoning

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Another classic article from the classicist and agricultural toiler, Victor Davis Hanson.
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Government Motors

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Hat tip to MaxedOutMama. Health warning: please DO NOT read this with a cup of hot liquid near your mouth or over the keyboard. You have...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Lights just went out in....

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This Spengler piece neatly sums up the feeling I've had all year: that parts of the world are simply going to 'go dark' - laps...
Monday, December 01, 2008

Power, power everywhere

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This little gem from the ever-watchful Torygraph, shows just how much power is literally under our noses. I've always known that, give...
Sunday, July 06, 2008

AGW as Mass Delusion

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Heh. Couldn't have put this better meself. There are two mass delusion abroad IMHO: AGW being one (natch) and the notion that financ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

More books

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Thanks to the wunners of globbelisation, I have three hot new books to devour. That's right: ordered 11 June on Amazon, delivered 25 J...