... and there it was. I recently wondered what to call the noise that GSM cellphone make when they interfere with audio gear, and the literary Kimmie did it again this Saturday! "... that cellphone digity-do thing" she called it as she accused a guest of having a cellphone in his pocket.
Over the last week the pohutukawa seed has been literally pouring out of the trees. The back yard has got drifts of seed everywhere. No wonder there are so many seedlings sprinkled through the garden.
Groups working for freedom of Tibet all over the world have been targeted. Attachments install keyloggers that collect and sends everything typed on the affected machine to a server via a Chinese DNS-bouncer system.
I'm not sure if they are doing it on purpose, but when the RadioNZ bird call is played, I can't help but appending the controversial phrase ... "the Ruru. [pause] Radio New Zealand. [pause][insert mental comment] Sounds like us. [grin].
Yesterday was a nice afternoon near the top of Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, wandering allong the Tui Glen Track. There were plenty of Amanita toadstools under the pine trees, and the Robins were especially curious. We were very lucky to spot a couple of tuataras basking near the track. I managed to take lots of blurred and fuzzy photos of saddlebacks & stichbirds, bellbirds and fantails. ...but it was fun.
Great news that the Wellington Marine Conservation Trust have abandoned their idea of building on Te Raekaihau Point and are now wanting to use a more appropriate site. (My preference is the quarry area at the entrance to Red Rocks, but hey!) The Maranui Depot quarry site they are now suggesting is far less of an insult to the coast. The downside of the site is claimed to be that it doesn't have direct access to the seashore because of the road. If the Wellington City Council really wants to get behind it, a bit of earthworks would soon enable the road to be diverted *behind* the development, thus actually improving the site by creating another littoral park around the complex which doesn't have the road right by the seashore. Here's my totally uninformed, but opiniated suggestion:
This is really neat! It's a gravity driven light. So you basically flip it over like an egg-timer, and the weighted LEDs sink to the bottom, driving a propeller which energizes the LEDs. The equivalent of a 40watt bulb for about 4 hours! ... that's pretty green!
Not content with planning to permanently deface Ocean Beach with a sub-division, it seems that there is no respect of dissent from baybuzz either! It seems that having been thwarted in his plans for self-profit when indulging in the charade of a "charette", the true colours come out and a new plan for an even worse insult to the landscape is reveled. I wonder how different this is from the original plans. Oh, and the whole thing is being sanitised with green-wash of an unspecified conservation zone at the north end of the beach.
I've been wondering about that really annoying sound that electronic audio equipment can make when it picks up a signal emitted from a GSM cellphone which is "talking" to the GSM cellular network. There must be an appropriate name for it eh? My last desktop PC used to announce that the cellphone was just about to receive a call ... which was handy I suppose.
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