Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live The The The Stone Roses Gomez The Charlatans Basement Jaxx Groove Armada Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Davie Bowie Lloyd Cole U2

Running the house off the car. This is the future that gentailers don't want

Replacement system in...

I didn't know I needed an oven with a camera in it until now!

It's currently 4° outside and a solar installer is on the roof in shorts and short-sleeved shirt 🥶

Loving this little game each morning... www.maptap.gg May 15 94👑 100🎯 98🎯 100🎯 95🏆 Final score: 975

Certainly not a use case I had considered...

When you go solar, you DO NOT want to deal with Endless Energy...

Watching the boy's football in the shadows of The Remarkables. (Absolutely bloody freezing) Queenstown. New Zealand

Post your warning sign

For the first time ever I have made it to a local public meeting by a cycle lane sceptic group about “the case for a pause” to a planned lane to a school which had been years in the planning. They are not, repeat *not* against cycling, it’s just this one particular design is flawed, obvs.

There may be wild weather ahead...

Arh, nothing like Claude injecting unicode em dashes into PowerShell code to get you tearing your hair out for a couple of hours 😕

"'Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We’re dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something."

I do not want to subscribe to your emails. I do not want you to update me on the latest deals. I do not want you to integrate with my calendar or my Zoom meetings. I do not want to personalize my experience. I do not want a walkthrough of your product. I do not want to pay for a premium experience.

The school "peloton" this morning...

For Minister Shane Jones the jewels are the resources in the ground. For many of the rest of us the jewels are the earth, the sky, the sea, the bush, the rivers, the mountains, and the creatures My #cartoon today #Taonga #Mining #Clutha #Environment #FastTrack #UNESCOWorldHeritageSite #TeWāhipounamu

A bicycle shop... as opposed to last time where I couldn't afford to lose money on it. It was still very entertaining for 8 years.

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

@nzcow.com - your RNZ feeds are showing stories multiple times...

#eqnz - felt that one here in Wanaka. My wife and I looked at each other wondering what sized truck made that amount of noise and vibration.

Experimenting with "NightSight" on my phone

Friday evening mountain bike ride. Bike Glendhu Wanaka New Zealand

Sun is shining... Weather is sweet. Glendhu Bay Lake Wanaka New Zealand

Sunday night Pizza

sick! www.opentools.studio

Evening gravel bike ride Wanaka New Zealand

Excellent interview with ReWiring Aotearoa CEO Mike Casey on Q+A www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5RX...

16kg pressure washer from Mitre10 - no problem...

100jumps.org is addictive and annoying

Similar computer setup eh? My London flat in 1999...

How to swap out the battery in your Nissan Leaf for fun and profit... 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPNU...

Shepherd's delight? I don't think so...

Sunrise Sessions Mountain biking at Bike Glendhu Wanaka New Zealand

Back riding the Queenstown trails again today. Queenstown New Zealand

Mountain biking trails off the side of Coronet Peak Queenstown New Zealand

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Get your employer to sign up for this while there are still bikes in stock: www.workride.co.nz

Stunning evening for a bike ride with the local Cub Scouts. Wanaka New Zealand

RewiringAotearoa: "We’ve added some more advice to help those who have already made the wise decision to fill their cars up with electrons manage this 'fluid' situation."

NZ's largest bike store wasting no time in leaning in to the crisis as opportunity framing. www.evocycles.co.nz/save-on-petr...

I LOL'ed "...like a dog that farted in the middle of a romantic dinner..." www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Scenes at the Wanaka A&P show. Gorgeous day for it. Wanaka New Zealand

This morning's mountain bike ride Bike Glendhu Wanaka, New Zealand

It still feels magical to be able to had a need for something, find a 3D model of it on the net, download it, 3D print it, and hold it in your hands an hour or so later...

First honey of the season...

"Public administration was a special corner of hell, irresistible to certain personalities. Once there, and risen to the top, there was nothing they could do that did not make someone, some sector, hate them."

This should be an interesting toy...

📢 It is one of the cheapest ways to cut power bills - yet documents show the government shelved a subsidy package.