Blogs / May 2015
June 2015 | April 2015-
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Why Facebook’s errors might be increasing
- Jack Yan
- Now that I’ve figured out that Facebook only works on alternative days (or at least evenings, since it gave up the ghost again for the early afternoon), I’m back into my usual swing of things.
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Botany Collection Narratives – (Part 3) – Image highlights from Hue te Taka (Moa Point) Narrative
- Te Papa's blog
- Some time ago now, the Te Papa Science team completed the process of collecting, identifying and storing terrestrial plants from a low-stature plant community on Wellington’s South Coast.
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Moa Point, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Usefulness of a park
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- It’ll take some time to know how well Pukeahu fits within the fabric of Wellington.
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Great New Video From The Architectural Centre
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Gregory: The David vs Goliath analogy is quite apt.
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Five or ten years, your Kiwi passport is not a valid government-issued ID, says Facebook
- Jack Yan
- Sometimes you wonder if the big players on Silicon Valley exist in a parallel universe.
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New look for bus shelters
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Over at Auckland Transport Blog, there’s a post about deciding on a new bus shelter for the AT network.
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Should cyclists be forced onto cycle lanes?
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- The question arises from a comment received on a cycling framework post.
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Patronage on privatised bus routes
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of fluctuations in patronage on my bus route.
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Relighting Cuba Mall
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- WCC put out a press release around some current work going on in Cuba Mall.
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Kids these days
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- While walking home through Pukeahu last week, there were a bunch of people with skateboards doing exactly what you’d expect in the park.
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Metlink’s Android widget
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Just before the lunch break, I saw this tweet from Metlink.
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Those pesky roads
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- There was a story run in the DomPost last week about cyclists coming off their bikes in Pukeahu National War Memorial Park because of poor visibility of the kerbs.
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The political caricatures of old have taken human form, but they’re still nothing like us
- Jack Yan
- That’s another British General Election done and dusted.
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Autocade hits 6,000,000 page views: a few quick figures
- Jack Yan
- The Dongfeng Fengshen AX7, or a Renault with a Peugeot engine (and I don’t mean the PRV V6 or the old Douvrin), entered into Autocade this week.
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Review: Spyfinger! A show about spies
- The Wellingtonista
- My Accomplice tackles the spy film in their latest production which is part of the Comedy Festival.
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Verandahs, overhead pedestrian infrastructure
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- We tend to take infrastructure for granted.
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Cycling Framework Consultation
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Wellington City Council was quick off the blocks to get the draft cycling framework out for consultation, which opened on 4 May – quite likely to very many Star Wars puns – and runs until 5pm, 29 May.
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Even on Instagram, they prefer bots to legitimate users
- Jack Yan
- Instagram bans are like Facebook blackouts or Google blacklists: no matter what the company says your time-out is, it’s considerably longer.
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How a car accident makes you grateful
- Jack Yan
- The trouble with all the yellow-peril reporting that’s far more prevalent than it should be in Aotearoa is when something happens to you that may get people thinking about a stereotype.
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Switched on Bikes for Wellington
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- WCC has a news article on supporting Switched on Bikes through the Smart Energy Challenge programme.
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Photos: Parking failures
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Parking failures seem to be occupying my mind at the moment.
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In the Empah, the royal baby is 8 lb 3 oz, thank you
- Jack Yan
- The Cambridges with their new daughter in her first public appearance; photograph from the Press Association.
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Threatening parked cars
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Not long ago, I took a stab at the issue of Wellington City Council forgiving/ignoring/encouraging cars parked on suburban footpaths.
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It’s full circle for style.com: back to its origins in fashion retail
- Jack Yan
- Originally published in the online edition of Lucire, May 1, 2015 Top Earlier today, attempting to get into Style.
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Greater Wellington Regional Land Transport Plan
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- On his personal blog, GW Councillor Paul Bruce offers his views on the Regional Land Transport Plan.
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