This one is as good: http://vimeo.com/11086952

I did an exaustive study on the maths of the economics the other night but then i had a few wines and forgot to write it down, pity I seem to recal it was quite interesting.

looks like "eco geek" is skeptical about the vertical farms   I haven't done the math on the economics and the author doesn't provide any numbers to back his claims. I'd be interested to see an article that actually does the analysis.

Even the staunch capitalists at the economist think that the copyright situation has gotten out of hand:

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15868004

http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2010/04/09/pay-attention-new-zealand/

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/11/sign-the-publicacta.html

http://publicaddress.net/6565#post6565

Here is a photo of Felix vs. Colin.... Colin is clearly winning

I love Gamma Goblins, Felix has one that has been named Colin

Yea really good, i just watched it on the telly via gamma and the ps3 browser, looked good in fullscreen

Nah, it's further in. That's the outlet track, which is a gravel walking road.

Yeah, a youngun at work mentioned finding some of the tracks above the outlet after 5 years of visiting Wanaka regularly. He wasn't sure how to get back to them so I tried to find them on tracks.co.nz, no dice. I've sent a letter outlining the encounter to Girlfriend's "How embarrassment" column.

I blame you Ca22um.

This is due do the number of tracks we are displaying. not strictly openlayers fault. I imagine 200+ tracks would make firefox creak a bit when using google maps directly.

quote from Ians test results (http://tracks.org.nz/features/74):

On a slower laptop PC running Firefox 3.5.6, the limit for reasonable performance is around 100 tracks.

A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue.

Script: http://openlayers.org/dev/OpenLayers.js:181

openlayers is great but i can kill firefox 3.5 very dead, Just think what it does to ie

The KML file should now be updated daily, if you notice that it has broken, leave a comment here

how much for them loggers. I see some gaps in the Wanaka area.

Just to see how many tracks the Google Maps API can cope with simultaneously, I've put together a set of test cases.

It turns out that, not surprisingly, the answer depends on the browser and particular computer. Some results are listed in a comment on Tracks feature request 74.

Earlier versions of the Google Maps API would implode if it attempted to display more than a few tracks at once. More recent versions can cope with more tracks, and encoding the data (rather than using the kml files directly) also helps.

The net effect is that it is now possible to display quite a lot of data simultaneously - possibly all the tracks in an area, in most cases. I think a bit of experimenting is in order, to see how far the API can be pushed before it becomes too sluggish...

Cheers,

Ian.

Nice. I've previously contemplated adding a full screen toggle to the www.tracks.org.nz Google Maps. Turns out to be quite straightforward, using a bit of borrowed code, as shown in the Full screen map feature request.

Cheers,

Ian.

The council also plans to develop a cycleway over the Tararua Range from Shannon to Eketahuna.

Part of the Government's national cycleway, it would provide the first link between Horowhenua and Wairarapa.

Horowhenua District Council spokesman David Clapperton said: "It will boost economic development in the two small communities and provide some stunning vistas."

The council has applied for Tourism Ministry funding for a feasibility study for the 40-kilometre cycleway.

From: http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/new-zealand/3239811/Shannon-small-town-big...

sounds great

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/3234408/Top-10-bicycle-frien...

to be fair there is this:

http://www.wellington.govt.nz/projects/new/porirua-stream.html

Where has the tinymce editor gone? How am i sposed to embed external images?

put knobblies on my gutterball?

yeah I bought that one. Seems to do the trick. Doesn't look like the photo cause I got the sprung not the fixed one.

But I don't have a single speed, whatever can I do?!?

That is a great idea. Imagine if the Wellington City Council did that every Sunday, made one lane bikes only on the motorway out to Petone.  

Yea, you have to watch out for those splayed-out widened bits.

if you have time it might be worth having a quick look at the brake cables as well.

Sounds interesting, I'm pretty keen to get involved, i'll have a talk to Chris at some stage about it.

To be honest I was quite taken with cyclocross bikes so you are on the money callum.

Except of course I actually do have two mountain bikes, not the best but they do the job.

Sweet, I'll be doing this on sun the 20th with Campbell. Last time i did it i rode up to flagstaff round the back on Whare Flat Road. I'm interested to see how the track has progressed since last time i did it.

Get anything else done? Nickols Creek, signal hill, other side of Whare Flat?

Heya Craig, long time no hear.  How are you?

Their too ugly was one of the reasons, there were billboards around with minarets all over Switzerland, next to all the famous church towers.  But this is an unlikely scenario.  The main reason however is the fear of Islam and the growing Islamic population, a couple of quotes (from Swissinfo.ch) explain some of the concerns:

"Forced marriages and other things like cemeteries separating the pure and impure – we don't have that in Switzerland and we don't want to introduce it"

and another quote:

"However, society wants to put a safeguard on the political-legal wing of Islam, for which there is no separation between state and religion" 

I think it's deeper than that.  The Swiss are very patriotic.  But over the years their have been a growing number of foreigners entering Switzerland, some to work, some were refugees.  With this they foreigners bought along their culture, their dress and their behavior.  They also did the work the Swiss generally did not want to do themselves, such as the lowest paid jobs.  In the 90's there was a large influx of ex-Yugoslavs entering Switzerland, many of whom are Islam.  The crime rate rose and other things "degenerated" (relative to the Swiss norms).  There is a bitterness in the Swiss, usually it's unspoken, but sometimes when it is spoken it can be rather ugly.

Yeah, metafilter covered it:

"Swiss voters moonlight as architecture critics"
http://www.metafilter.com/87041/On-Architectural-Criticism

I'm curious as to what sorts of rationalisations were used in favour of the ban. "They're too pointy! Someone will lose an eye on one of those things!"

Yeah.

I have managed to answer all my questions by reading all the posts in their entirety

That was a classic "senior moment"

Also you should actually read some of the questions being asked.

random example:

1) Do you believe foreign corporations have the right to ownership of the resources of the poorer nations? Surely if the intention is to facilitate economic development and global trade, a better strategy would be to assist the population with the knowledge and capital required to benefit more directly from their wealth creation/extraction, rather than losing nearly all of the surplus to foreign investors.

2) Do you believe global economic growth can be sustained to the point where all nations are on par with the west? Is it even a desirable goal to expand the western consumerist culture, or even maintain it indefinitely in developed nations? Shouldn't we be adopting a less wasteful, more sustainable way of life, and an economy that doesn't cause suffering when conspicuous consumption decreases?

Could be trackfield doesn't handle gpx that well. Try exporting as kml if you can and attach that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG98-FxBYgA

did a kitten bite you?

I saw Russ riding home and he was all 90 degree turns and plowing through buidings and trees. I reckon that track is accurate.

I'll tell you what, if that works, you can have the old phone.

is that the phone gps??

looks a bit square to me.

I hate captchas, are CAPTCHAs ever case sensitive?

please just post about crashes, stupid things people said and speculation on who is the fastest and coolest. photos should be of injuries or bikes in the air/down a bank.

It's what the market wants.

thanks mike, looks like a good read.  i will get started with haskell, but i may end up trying all 3 and see which i like best.  i think half of the language is about liking it, and i like python.  i actually like javascript too, it is actually a really cool language to play with.  here is a cool video to show the good parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook

i think most functional programing lean torwards having a better solution for threading than imperative programming.  i think i may continue with ocaml and then see how i like it.

http://www.canvasdemos.com/

if you want not worrying about your safety then you want:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=70708

I believe Stephen was making this point a while back here:

http://vital.org.nz/entry/title/the_decline_and_possible_rise_of_cycle_c...