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Glendowie Ball June 2011

2011-06-26T11:35:00.001+12:00

Glendowie Ball June 2011, a set on Flickr.

Statement of Duncan Styles

2010-03-01T16:43:00.003+13:00

Statement of Duncan Styles

Traffic Incident

Wednesday 24 Feb 2010, approx 0840.

Vale road, Auckland, heading east.

Situation:
Cycling to work with my 17 yo daughter. Single file, approaching blind corner. Car is behind me.

Silver car proceeds to overtake as I turn the corner. Car is partially over white line, and very close to me.

I fear for my safety should another car be coming the other way. If this was to happen I would surely be forced off the road as driver of silver car would be forced back to my side of the road.

I tap his window. Its barely an arm length away. My arm was not straight when my hand tapped the window. Perhaps .8m.

Car completes overtaking manoeuvre.

Silver car then brakes very quickly to a stop. Car is close to the curb. There is no reason for him to do this. There is no traffic in front of the car or any other reason for him to stop. The driver did not indicate before he stopped. I think this is a malicious attempt to injure me.

I manage to slow, but crash into the rear of the car with my front wheel and right handlebar. I am not injured.

Damage to my bike includes bent forks and buckled front wheel.

I avoid crashing violently into the car and avoid possible injury to myself and the rear seat occupants (kids).

Aftermath:
Driver explains his overtaking as "I left you 1.5 metres".

I point out that to overtake first you must have 100m clear viability. Driver makes no apology or offer to repair my bike. He suggests I obtain his details from his number plate.

Silver car driver gets in car and proceeds to leave scene.

I request name and address. I am given business card - no street address.

Details on business card given to me by the driver are:
Richard Mangnall
PO BOX 25704
St Heliers
Auckland
09 5754269
021 630 218
richard@businessdesigns.co.nz

Car Details
Holden Commodore, late model, Silver.

Several cars stop after the crash. I stop 2nd car and ask driver to be a witness. He obliges and gives us (me and Megan) a lift home.

He is name is Rob Best. 021 950150

Megan Styles (my daughter) is also a witness. She is leaving the country on Saturday 27 Feb, her number is 09 5753339. She lives with me.

Signed

Duncan Styles
10 Pembroke Cres,
Glendowie
Auckland 1071
09 575 3339
021 665 852
d@ddmr.co.nz

Statement of Duncan Styles

2010-03-01T16:43:00.001+13:00

No puller required here!!

2008-12-29T14:12:00.000+13:00

Needs No Puller

One promising development is the crankset which needs no puller. Shimano introduced the first such crankset several years ago with its One-Key-Release system. More recently, Excel and Sugino began offering similar units. All work the same way.
Instead of the customary 15-mm bolt, these cranksets use a bolt with a 6-mm Allen head. [Newer ones use 8 mm or, occasionally, 7 mm] This has two advantages: the necessary tool is small and practically weightless, and the Allen head can be exposed through a small hole in the dustcap.
The steel dustcap functions as the "nut" in a standard crank puller, and when you're removing the crank, the fixing bolt functions as the crank puller's "bolt." As you loosen the fixing bolt, the head of the bolt pushes against the inside of the dustcap, pulling the crank from the spindle.
This system is particularly well-suited for touring and for air travel when you need to remove either the pedals or the cranks to put your bicycle into a box. You can adapt other brands of cranks to this system by replacing the dustcaps and fixing bolts. Shimano, Excel, and Sugino all offer retrofit kits. They will work with all Type I cranks (that use a bolt to hold the crank to the spindle) with Campagnolo size (22-mm) dustcap threads.

Borrowed from SheldonBrown
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/tooltips/cotterless.html

2008-11-24T23:04:00.003+13:00

We just swapped to Orcon unbundled, home phone and dsl. Great service and painless swap. Speedy too

A download in progress

Black Belt Grading

2008-11-18T12:13:00.003+13:00

We're all grading for our Black Belt on December 6 and 7. Public is invited on the Sunday afternoon.

Part of the fitness test is a 2.4km run on the Saturday afternoon. The course is on mapmyrun.

Deleting Duplicate Files using md5sum

2008-10-07T10:01:00.004+13:00

I finally found the ultimate script to delete duplicate files. It uses md5sum so we are deleting files that have the same content, not just the same file name. It deletes the 2nd and 3rd duplicates as well. It only prints the command to delete the file. Its up to you to run it!!!! Have fun.

find . -type f -print0 | \
xargs -0 md5sum| \
sort| \
awk 'dup[$1]++{print $0}'| \
sed -r 's/^[0-9a-f]*( )*//;s/([^a-zA-Z0-9./_-])/\\\1/g;s/(.+)/rm \1/'

you can redirect output to a script file:
Add '> rmfilename' to the end of the 5th line

change its permissions after reviewing it:
chmod u+x rmfilename

and run it:
./rmfilename

Social Networking

2008-06-17T14:46:00.003+12:00

During a brief outage of Sydney Cyclist, I managed to see the ning.com home page, and was invited to create my own social network. Didn't take long and now its up and running please feel free to take a look.

single speedin

2008-05-25T20:35:00.002+12:00

I got me a single at last. Well 2nd on to be precise. the Giant CRX4 with singulator is sort of.

Alister brought round the Bianchi we bought in London 20 years ago. I measured the frame and realised its 60cm - or close enough for me to ride (I'm 6 1). So off with all but the front brake, and lights to keep it safe in the dark.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/threetalook/sets/72157605242881137/

2008-05-19T15:07:00.000+12:00

318 trademe bidders

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power usage

2008-05-06T15:02:00.002+12:00

http://www.surphzup.com/gpage3.html - search for "Quick dummy spit"

Funnyest thing i've seen for ages.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfbmktjd_123dkq27whs

nail

2008-04-14T16:16:00.002+12:00

nail is not for building houses, but for sending emails from the command line in linux. If you have a script that needs to send emails, nail is the mail. Problem is it uses the .mailrc file even if you have a .nailrc file sitting in your home dir

Oh darn

So i moved .nailrc to .mailrc and my magic script magically starts sending to my pager via my gmail account. You need this in your .mailrc file:
set folder=pop3s://mailaccount@gmail.com
set smtp-use-starttls
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp=smtp.gmail.com:587
set smtp-auth-user=yourusername@gmail.com
set smtp-auth-password=yourpassword
set from="fromaddress@gmail.com"

um... a wheel..

2008-04-03T14:33:00.001+13:00

um... a wheel..
Originally uploaded by threetalook

I took this awhile ago. it was at the bimmersport (.co.nz) get-to-gether at a bmw garage. They had a M6 on the hoist. Seeing underneath one of these cars is quite rare, and as the photo shows - spectacular. The Technology in modern cars, especially under the bonnet, is largely hidden. From below there is little opportunity for the manufacturer to hide, and here is a great example. Note the amount of bushes and mounts to hold and no doubt control the rear wheel. Some suspension guru would probably add a whole lot more to this comment - probably along the lines of - looks like any other car!! :-) This just gave me an idea - i will photo graph the underside of my Ford Falcon so you can compare - check back soon. Duncan

2008-03-26T08:31:00.001+13:00

Homesick Mouse

by Rebecca Styles

“Hurry up Yulia!” shouted my Mum. She’s always like that, rush, rush, rush. ‘We-have-to-be-on-time-otherwise-everyone-will-think-we’re-not-organised’ sort of thing. While I’m quite relaxed, I get it from my Dad.

I hate going to family reunions, I don’t get along with my cousins, they think I’m weird.

I hopped in the back seat of the car and Dad drove us to my Grandmas house. I love my Grandma; she is the only person who really understands me. I usually go to her house on the weekends; we paint, cook and do some other stuff. But with all the cousins there it’s not going to be good.

Once we got there I said ‘hello’ to everyone, then snuck off to the back garden, which is practically like a forest. I make up games there, I even have my own imaginary friend, but she stays in the forest. I ran over to my hut and opened the door. There, in the middle of the floor, eating a centipede was a little brown mouse. He flicked his head around as quickly as a possum does it’s on the road and a car comes. He sprinted over to the corner of the hut and sat as still as if he was dead. I picked him up and he started squirming. So I hugged him to my chest, I don’t how I did it, but he calmed down. I played with him for what seemed like minutes and when I looked at my watch hours had gone by. I decided to call him Quiver, because when I first saw him he was shaking so much. I put him in my pocket and headed back to the house.

When I went into the lounge only my parents and my Grandma were there.

“Finally, you’re back. Now lets get back home, it’s nearly your bed time.” Mum said. I ran over to Grandma and gave her a big hug and kiss that said ‘goodbye’.

Once we got home I made Quiver a little house in a shoe box, then went to bed. The next day Quiver was looking really bad, he was just lying on the ground shaking. “What’s wrong with you?” I said to him, but he just looked at me with those big brown eyes. ‘Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to bring you home with me.’ I thought to myself.

That day my Dad took me back to Grandmas house because I said that I’d forgotten my bracelet, but I was actually going to put Quiver back in the forest.

While Dad was talking to Grandma, I ran to the forest and set Quiver down. I watched him until he scuttled under the big leaves. I walked happily back to the house knowing that I had done Quiver good and I might see him again someday.

An Introduction to OpenSSL, Part Three: PKI- Public Key Infrastructure

2008-03-19T12:15:00.000+13:00

An Introduction to OpenSSL, Part Three: PKI- Public Key Infrastructure: "A certificate is the signature of a public key and information that describes the holder of the public key. The signature is created using an asymmetric cipher and a private key held by a CA. The CA's private key has a corresponding public key that is part of a root certificate. A root certificate is a public key and its corresponding information that has been signed by the private key that corresponds to the aforementioned public key. A root certificate is also called a self-signed certificate because the private key in a key pair is used to sign the public key and identifying information, instead using a private key from a different key pair to sign the public key and its identifying information."

what a load of crap!!!! you try and explain it????

Air Show tickets valid for Ohakea

2008-03-10T15:58:00.001+13:00

just a small detail of driving/flying to ohakea. takes forever. last time i was there was wings and wheels, 1990 i think and i was running late . jim the xjs never was scared of catching up time, so pedal to the metal it was. 200 and then some and we were making up loads of time. then i get a sniff of anti freeze - and pull over to have a check - and a huge cloud of steam erupts from under the bonnet. Luck would have it i had a spare bit of hose and 5 trips over to a house with my 4 litre container to fill it up again and i was off. pommie crap.

stairs that work

2008-03-02T11:01:00.003+13:00

My mate across the road is an architect, and he has this cool formula for calculating the riser and tread so that humans can easily walk up and down stairs. The theory is that our legs are approximately the same length, and should a stair be steep or gentle, you adjust the riser and tread lengths so that its easy for us to climb. So the formula is thus:
2X riser + tread = 23 inches.

So if a stair is steep, the tread get progressively shorter, and the stairs are just as easy to climb.

You can always just go to a stair calculator site like this one.

2008-03-02T10:49:00.001+13:00

how a stair "works"

2X the riser + the tread = 23 inches

Art Car

2007-12-13T13:18:00.001+13:00

PICT0631.JPG
Originally uploaded by threetalook

This is the sun shine art car. Cool eh???

my wonderful ride to work!!!

2007-11-28T16:32:00.000+13:00

threetaridetowork
Find more Bike Rides in Glendowie, New Zealand

E30

2007-11-22T14:45:00.001+13:00

P1014599
Originally uploaded by josh.purcell

Gret shot from josh of the BMWCC reunion

Gmail - PICT1419.JPG

2007-11-08T15:57:00.000+13:00

Gmail - PICT1419.JPG
Jock is now a porn star!!!

Bike Punctures are fixed by

2007-10-11T15:27:00.000+13:00

Bike Punctures are fixed by:
Prevent:

new tyres

new tubes

Do NOT using tyre levers to put tyre on. i.e. fingers!

partially inflating tyre, then deflating then inflating to 100 (or whatever) psi. This pulls any creases out of the tube."

Letting the tyre down every week, pinching the entire tread surface and getting ALL the glass out. Some tyres pick up more than others.

don't ride through glass - doh
don't jump kerbs (doh)

wipe the tyre after riding through glass - hook your thumb over the back stay to stop your hand getting sucked into the gap between the tyre and the seat post (doh).

Fix:

checking the area of the tyre where you get a puncture for glass, by inflating the tube, finding the hole, and laying the tube over the tyre to find out where on the tyre the hole was made. Often the glass is still hiding!!! When mounting tyres, position the tyre label next to the valve hole on the rim to facilitate.

repair any holes in the tyre casing by either a Parktool tyre repair patch or a $5 note.

Who's 40?

2007-09-18T00:31:00.001+12:00

Who's 40?
Originally uploaded by Strapper40

what a bro!

Pip, Jock (her Bruvva)

2007-09-18T00:27:00.001+12:00

Pip, Jock (her Bruvva)
Originally uploaded by Strapper40

the best bro and sis a bloke could ask for!

Tonia, Nige, Debbie

2007-09-18T00:24:00.001+12:00

Tonia, Nige, Debbie
Originally uploaded by Strapper40

A great night out at Jock and Bron's 40th

2007-09-15T17:23:00.000+12:00

welcome the 40th

Well now's my chance to amend the stuff up I made at Jock's wedding. Not that I can remember it as i was so petrified. I've been petrified for the last week too - ever since debs started on about saying a FEW words. nothing strikes fear into me more than taht 5 letter word - speech. Nothing really happened until i saw the 5 tenets of Taekwon-Do in a slightly different light, i.e. related to my wee bro. The tenet are there to help us become better martial artists, and i guess it must be working cause i can beat up megan and rebecca with one hand tied behind my back now. So apologies for taking the slightly easy route out of the speech writing task - i tried all sorts of sites on the web to get it written for me, lay awake at night dreaming up fantastic paragraphs that i had forgotten in the morning, and promised debs i'd spend time during lunch hours getting this done. Buggers. well here goes...

1. Courtesy (Ye Ui)

Taekwon-Do students should attempt to be polite to one another and to respect others. Turning up early or on time for classes is also an aspect of courtesy.

How are we to practice courtesy? There are as many ways as there are moments in a day. Every encounter is an opportunity. Here are some examples.

Show your appreciation, express your gratitude, and offer your thanks whenever someone treats you kindly. "There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."
Scatter the dark clouds of gloom and spread sunshine with your smile. Remember, a smile is a curved line that can straighten many problems.
Be as thoughtful as the 82-year-old woman who was more concerned about others than the pain she was in. "I may be in pain," she said, "but I don’t have to be one."
Respect the opinions and decisions of others, even if you disagree with them.
Be a good friend. Express your good manners with your emotions. When your friends arrive, say, "At last!" And when they leave, say, "So soon?"
Act kindly toward others without expecting anything in return. To act in the expectation of a reward cancels out the kindness.
Instruct your children. "Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern."
Be gentle in your dealings with others. To find out what others are feeling, don’t prod or poke. If you want play with a turtle, you can’t get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle not harsh, hard or forceful.

2. Integrity (Yom Chi)

One who has integrity is able to define what is right or wrong and have the conscience, if wrong, to feel guilt. Taekwon-Do students should strive to

be honest and to live by moral principles.

I nicked this off the interweb. may as well use it for jock's speech i thought, i haven't a hope of saying anything unless i do......

Imagine a world in which everybody in always "Integra",, like Jock, a world of honesty and sincerity, of being able to rely on what others say. People are punctual and fulfill their obligations and duties in life willingly and to the best of their ability. This would be a world without lying, cheating, stealing, fraud and criminality.

Then imagine a world in which everybody is dishonest most of the time: nobody tells the truth if it serves their interests not to, everybody is out to get everything they can, any way they can, including by lying and not keeping agreements and contracts. People shirk duties, obligations, and only pay debts when forced to. They will commit fraud and steal when there is an opportunity to do so. Obviously, this second world is going to be full of rules and laws, long contracts, lawsuits, police, judges, and punishments to control non-integral behavior. One of the main purposes of Law is to enforce Integrity when the people have none.

Its great people like jock are around to lead us down the right path, and to set such a great example. Thanks Jock!

3. Perseverance (In Nae)

Perseverance means having patience. One of the most important secrets of becoming a leader in Taekwon-Do is to overcome every difficulty by perseverance. Confucius said," One who is impatient in trivial matters can seldom achieve success in matters of great importance."

So we get to perseverance. Kind of hard to talk about this one so i let the interweb do some talking. Guess i had to persevere a little myself to get this darned speech written. glad the people around me persevered in the pestering or it would have one of my usual 30 second wonders. Bit like Jocks perseverance with his relationships. He's feeling like crap (he never lets on - but you know when he does) but always has the time for a cup of tea on a Sunday arvo. He has to put up with his healthy, full of live and Taekwon-Doer brother for on hour when all he feels like is crap after another week on the chemo. Thanks for persevering mate - its not often people will go that far. There I managed to get started, and actually wrote some stuff of my own. Back to the interweb's version of perseverance:

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second

4. Self-Control (Guk Gi)

Without self-control, a Taekwon-Do student is just like any fighter in the street. Loss of self-control is disastrous both in sparring and personal affairs. "The term of stronger is the person who wins over oneself rather than someone else", Lao Tzu.

Do we lose that weight we know we should. Are we brave enough to start that diet and have the self control to head out on the lonely road to health and fitness? Or is self control easy for some of us? What about jock - he's gots buckets of it. It actually easy for him, as if he fogets his predicament and has the odd beer, he sure as hell pays for it the next day. One of the side effects of losing half your liver. So how about our self control - not that easy is it? Think about it next time you start off on a fitness program.

5. Indomitable Spirit (Baekjul Boolgool)

A true student of Taekwon-Do will never give up, not even when faced with insurmountable odds. The most difficult goals can be achieved with indomitable spirit.

So we get to the last tenet. The biggie as far as Jock is concerned. He's faced with insurmountable odds right now. But has he given up? No. Has his family given up? No. Thanks to all the family, and especially Bronnie and Pip, he's now got a fantastic support network dedicated to curing him of this cancer. He's never managed to accept the negative advice he's been handed over the years and always looked for the best outcome. Recently this involved setting up a trust and organizing a huge fund raising effort so that the current treatment can be payed for. So the insurmountable odds are now looking more and more surmountable, and the life continues. No longer the chase of racing a car, we sold the Targa project Corolla and bought a BMW. That was taking its toll, so now we're looking after a mates car, and of course, all stored cars need a spin round the block every now and then! And on to the next project, and nitro car, or radio controller model car. The theme is to keep the petrol in the veins, but not shake up the frail body too much. So onto the current milestone is the project of Cure Jock. At least Jock's a project manager, so he'll have that angle sorted, but what about a decent milestone to head for? The 40th was always going to be it, and here we are. Fantastic work team. Now the next milestone please - this is probably the hardest part of celebrating a win like this one, setting the next goal. So I hope you can do it mate, as I sure as hell need you to. Go for Jock, and happy 40th.

hunting for time zone patches.....

2007-08-20T14:48:00.000+12:00

Sun News Center: "Sun's Top News Stories IBM Expands Support for the Solaris OS on x86 Systems (Aug 16, 2007 ) Jonathan's Blog: Momentous Day for Solaris"

winmail update

2007-08-16T14:36:00.000+12:00

The winmail.dat attachment is created by outlook when the sender is trying to send as RTF (a m$ thing) to a recipient (usually Linux or Mac) that can't open rtf. Get the send to turn rtf off for your email address, or better still, all emails - use html instead. Or even better - swap over to gmail for your email - it can decipher rtf for you.

Google Toolbar for Firefox

2007-08-16T14:35:00.000+12:00

I installled the Google Toolbar for Firefox.
Great piece of kit!! I even used it to blog the link above.

chilli

2007-07-16T12:46:00.000+12:00

Went to Donald and Steph's on Saturday night. Ian and Terry are dog sitting as they're away. No visit to Donald and Steph's is complete without a taste of one of his "collector" chilli sauces. So Ian obliged and got the 357 Mad Dog Hot Sauce Collectors Edition (with Bullet)

out. Weeeehhhaaaaaaa. its the coolest sh.t i've ever had. Turns your pee red for a couple of days, or maybe that was the Taekwon-Do trials on the Sunday? See http://www.funkypepper.co.uk/prod5.asp?prod_id=8270&id=210&grpid=8270&msg=&offset=#prod_anchor . This cilli is 600,000 scoville units - well on the way to total insanity!.

winmail.dat

2007-03-29T22:54:00.000+12:00

How to view the peskie winmail.dat files your windows mates keep sending
you.

Create a script in your home drive:

#!/bin/ksh
if [ ! -d ~/winmail ];then
mkdir ~/winmail
fi

if [ ! -f ~/winmail/winmail.dat ];then
echo 'no winmail file please save as from mail to folder winmail'
echo Press enter to continue
read
exit 1
fi
tnef --overwrite -C ~/winmail -f ~/winmail/winmail.dat
rm ~/winmail/winmail.dat
nautilus --no-desktop --browser ~/winmail

Create a application launcher to run it
Save the winmail.dat into the folder winmail, and click on the launcher.

dial up and linux

2007-02-23T09:52:00.000+13:00

i got a dell d510 laptop. lets see if the modem will work so i can go anywhere. wooooaa look at all that geek stuff to set up the winmodem. NO thanks. So i connected a US Robotics via the port on the back of the laptop, added my account details in /etc/wvdial.conf, created a link in /dev/ for modem (ln -s sttyS0 modem) and then types wvdial. It connected and here i am typing this post!!!. at last something simple in linux land.

2006-11-22T21:39:00.000+13:00

tried to connect the pc to the stereo ages ago via a cat 5 ethernet (lan) cable, and thought it worked a treat. I was being lazy and decided i didn't want to run another cable under the house, and why not use the cat5 that was already under there?

so i used 1 twisted pair for the earth, another for left and one more for right. The fun bit came wiring a 3.5mm "headphone" plug to rj45 (the ethernet plug), and then a rj45 to rca (the standard stereo plug). I thought all was good until there seemed a lot of 50Hz interference on the music. so i shortened the cat 5 cable, useing a new crimping tool - went ok. Then i noticed only 1 speaker is working. So i ran a second cable up the stairs to check the new plug - all seems ok. so then i used a rj45 joiner and the test cable to make a loop, and then checked each of the 8 wires with the multimeter - all good. so then i looked at the sun cat5 cable i used to patch into the rca lead, and it is wired DIFFERENTLY to the cable i used. So i grabbed another i made and now all is happy!! And the sound is SOOOOO much better.
why is there a difference? The sun cable is not a cross over (i don't think so anyway)
. dunc

more on broadband

2006-10-24T17:54:00.000+13:00

we all wait for the "broadband unleashing" in new zealand, and i'm sure it will be fun. The isp i host with had some sort of error last night and as i had lost the admin password to my router, i whacked the reset button. then what? the magic router i installed a year ago is now unconfigured. It came with all the setting preconfigured, but no magic sticker on the bottom of what they are. Oh well,off to work where i can surf their home page and find out all i need to know. It worked! Thanks slingshot (.co.nz). I hope your unleashing is all fun and games.

holiday

2006-10-04T23:08:00.000+13:00

I'm stuck at the beach. Two things come to mind: How great technology allows us to stay connected. And how crappy this m$ dialup laptop is.

I thought of the first while i was logging in to post on the second. The 2nd is obvious, but here i am using a 5(who knows - toshiba satellite pro 4200) year old work laptop to post a couple of pics to my home site, and then blogging as one can and realised it still works - i can do what i need, and it connects to the usb on the camera - i should shut up and be thankful i need to do some work after hours occasionally so that work does actually let me take this steam powered crap heap away on holiday !!!

ant the dialup bit is my fault - i should fork out the 30 a month for a broadband in matarangi. Even the local real estate agent does!!! (http://ljhooker.com) or even the webcam i set up at http://matarangibeach.com. have fun

Passive Heating

2006-09-27T08:17:00.000+12:00

This is the time of the year when passive heating http://hrv.co.nz
really works well. The system works by taking hot or cold air and
pumping it into the house, as temperature dictates. i.e. cold
house/warm roof equals system on and soon warm house. More on the web
page. The filtration system hrv uses filters to .5 micron - filtering
smoke and the like - no more pollutants in our house thanks!!

2006-09-26T09:44:00.000+12:00

You can ride as fast as you like.
Unlike a car, where you are pressured to keep up with the car in front, and pressured to keep to the speed limit, so as not to create congestion a bike is free to go at any speed the cyclist wishes. There's no queue when riding a bike, so you're never stuck behind another cyclist. And conversly, any other traffic can pass you with ease, and thus no pressure to keep up. Cool eh?

Biking is great for 2 reasons:

2006-09-23T09:06:00.000+12:00

You can ride as fast as you like.
You can ride as fast as you want.
more to come.

dog day

2006-09-21T20:07:00.000+12:00

After sending our mini schnauzer to a groomer in auckland for a year or
so (he's only just 1) we decided to try another groomer (see link) as
we thought he came home a bit traumatised. The new groomer is
fantastic, and he not only looks fantastic, but is much happier too.
The groomer also sorted the hair in his ears, which looks like it was
about to grow into his ear. I'll put a couple of photos up on our home
page ddmr.co.nz.

http://www.finda.co.nz/findabusiness/listing/50441/the-groom-room?page=1&sort=&category_id=1555

a new link

2006-09-20T15:29:00.000+12:00

so i added a link on ocbc.co.nz a great cycle site!!!

wednesday blues

2006-09-20T15:22:00.000+12:00

I'm feeling really stuffed today and thought i'd scive off and create a blog.

duncan's blog

Glendowie Ball June 2011

Statement of Duncan Styles

Statement of Duncan Styles

No puller required here!!

Needs No Puller

Black Belt Grading

Deleting Duplicate Files using md5sum

Social Networking

single speedin

Buying

Selling

Make a fixed-price offer

power usage

nail

um... a wheel..

An Introduction to OpenSSL, Part Three: PKI- Public Key Infrastructure

Air Show tickets valid for Ohakea

stairs that work

Art Car

my wonderful ride to work!!!

E30

Gmail - PICT1419.JPG

Bike Punctures are fixed by

Who's 40?

Pip, Jock (her Bruvva)

Tonia, Nige, Debbie

welcome the 40th

1. Courtesy (Ye Ui)

2. Integrity (Yom Chi)

3. Perseverance (In Nae)

4. Self-Control (Guk Gi)

5. Indomitable Spirit (Baekjul Boolgool)

hunting for time zone patches.....

winmail update

Google Toolbar for Firefox

chilli

winmail.dat

dial up and linux

more on broadband

holiday

Passive Heating

Biking is great for 2 reasons:

dog day

a new link

wednesday blues