1 star. Would not recommend. Worst holiday ever

Weather window for a walk

Dealing with my father in hospital in an unideal situation. It's tiring and mind-numbing but what has been quite the success... recording conversations with Doctors, and Occupational Therapists etc and then uploading the audio file to AI for a summary in layman's terms.

Morning bike ride 🚵🏼 Wanaka New Zealand

Stormy with a hint of Australian forest fire smoke

Mine too, RNZ. Mine too...

This heatwave has marked a historic turning point in the Australian energy grid - we used to have blackouts as everyone turned their AC's on, with pundits telling us that 'renewables aren't the answer'. No blackouts this time, and silence from the nay-sayers. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Proton Mail, Fastmail et al getting an incoming flood of customers???

Today's mountain bike ride Lake Wanaka New Zealand

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

Morning bicycle ride Lake Wanaka, New Zealand

The first decent crop of apricots from our tree. A kilo of fruit and 4 jars of jam

Here's hoping you ain't at a mall at this time on Christmas eve...

Morning bike ride

The bumblebees are loving the flax

That's gotta hurt!

An after work bike ride around the block...

New Record! 17 hours 21 minutes!

Sam Shaw of Wanaka is riding today from Auckland to Wellington and attempting to break Lachlan Morton's record of 18 hours, 26 minutes, 58 seconds. Live tracking here with an ETA of 21:30 www.komoot.com/live/NTAzODI...

Coffee stop at The Caravan in Lawrence

"Banana for scale"

Me bees are busy!

Is this the push that a product such as Meshtastic needs? Cos this sounds dystopian...

Sunday morning gravel ride

The youth think its Summer...

I might be out of my depth...

Great day for hot air ballooning and bike riding

Tuesday evening gravel racing. Dusty!

AI is quite the way off taking my job any time soon. How can those gobshites proclaim how good it is? I would have got to where I am quicker by reading the reference docs 😒

Pizza Sunday

18 out of 19 for me. But why is #19 missing?

Photos from yesterday's ride around the block to Lake Hawea

51 of 19 balls! 👀

Halloween decorations 👀

What is it with snow and Labour Weekend?!!? 😒 It's snowing here again in Wanaka; as it did last Labour weekend and yet it hasn't snowed in town all Winter

“In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office.” — @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, urban pollution, urban noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, & not nearly enough space in cities.

We haz rain

Just found Kagi News Aggregator! This is life changing for my news consumption... ✅ Completely remove whole sections ✅ Filter for words I'm just not interested in news.kagi.com/new_zealand/

So it ain't just me...

Cameron Jones from Nelson wins the Life Time Grand Prix series after getting in as a wildcard entry. This is so impressive! www.cyclingnews.com/news/i-was-j...

I'm not convinced by the look of the red onion but the test is in the taste...

Slowly adding more and more cayenne pepper to my cheese scones each time I make them. No one complaining yet!

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

Just Microsoft blocking those pesky spam messages...

That's 4000km that I otherwise would have taken a car...

Just in case you missed it... Lamb on a rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l89...

Trying to bluff my way through writing C in the Arduino IDE as well as using Claude.ai. Remarkably even between helpful and really f*cking annoying at messing things up. Possibly quicker to just read the docs 🤔

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

That's me out without cheating..