Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Christchurch - Strangled by CCC staff

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The old, traditional delivery areas of Local Government - roads, bridges, hard services such as drainage, sewers, water - are doing just fin...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Spengler hits another one out of the park

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The best quote: "the transformation of universities into Maoist re-education camps with beer kegs" I'm struggling thorough Gol...
Friday, June 03, 2011

Arab hunger

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Spengler, once again, nails the essence of what is really going on in MENA. Implosion, in a word. These countries will simply become flyov...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Mushy Peas

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Read the comments thread - LOL. Disclaimer: I did not have English Peas for my evening meal.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Has Bin

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'Spengler' pulls another superb grain of wheat from the mass of chaff being talked about OBL's demise. To precis: the poor old...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Reynold's Law and Christchurch

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Reynold's law (bolded in the quote below) is one of those delightful discoveries that one stumbles across. Reynolds argued that societi...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Artists as canaries in the coal mine

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This was one of Kurt Vonnegut's phrases from his later years. But I've realised that it has a major flaw: 'artist' is a mu...
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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