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The Block 2015 – Preparation begins
Being somewhat block-a-holics and having heard that The Block 2015 was to be in Sandringham Josh and I felt we just had to have a look see. So far as I can tell we have the right place at the corner of Haig Ave and Refrew Ave in Sandringham in Auckland. Looking at Google maps… read more…
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Electrics In Service On The Western Line
We have been waiting a very long time but finally EMUs, Electric Multiple Unit, have been running on the Western Line in Auckland. We noticed them testing late last year at night and then just before Christmas they were testing during the daytime. Tonight we noticed one running about 6pm and it seemed to be… read more…
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Vandals upset 500 train passengers
Today my train was cancelled because vandals had put graffiti on it. Along with approximately 500 other passengers my train to Waitakere I was pretty annoyed. As the trains go from Britomart to Newmarket they stop on a bend just outside Newmarket to wait for a free slot at the station. During this time, less… read more…
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We will miss you Russell
This Thursday, the 19th of February 2015, saw the passing of my father in law and Josh’s grandfather Russell. He was 82. Josh and Russell always got on and we will all miss him. At heart Russell was a family man leaving behind 6 children, 14 grandchildren and wife Pat. The core of his life… read more…
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Fixing moiré patterns – text mixed with images
You will may have read the post removing moiré patterns using GIMP which describes how to remove moiré patterns from images using GIMP. This works well but you major headaches when you have an image that has a mixture of text and images. The problem is that if you apply a fourier transformation to text… read more…
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Scanning tips – stop the reverse side shinning through
When scanning booklets, in particular, you can occasionally get images from the back of the thing you are scanning as above. Sometimes this is barely visible sometimes it is incredibly obvious and really annoying. The simple answer is to place a black sheet of paper or cardboard directly behind the page you are scanning: You… read more…
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Our mate Zephaniah
Watch out for our mate Zephie if he hits your league field. We don’t go to many of his games for the Glenora Bears Rugby League “Under 8 Opens” team, in Glen Eden Auckland, very often but every time we do he seems to score 2 or 3 tries. He’s also a pretty mean tackler… read more…
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Fedora, Linux, IR Remotes, LiRC and MythTV
This post is mostly focused around getting a Microsoft MCE, Media Centre Edition, infra-red remote working with a MythTV frontend. However I will be covering as much as I can about about generic issues. My setup has Fedora 16 running with a hard drive install of Fedora LiveCD and I did this work in May… read more…
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It ain’t no Tardis !
Spotted recently above the Victoria Park Market renovations to the old car park building: read more…
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Electric Trains Testing On The Western Line
Not sure if it’s official but the Auckland Transport electric trains are currently testing on the western line as you can see in the above photo. From reports it sounds like they may have started test from around September we only took these pictures at the end of November 2014. We live pretty close to… read more…
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