Gigapan

Gigapan hosts huge panorama pictures with fast zoom capabilities. Very cool web app. The panorama of the Obama Inauguration is stunning due to the amount of information in it.

Google Chrome

Only in America? Nope, Hastings, NZ…

Two prisoners who fled a courthouse handcuffed together foiled their own getaway when they ran around opposite sides of a light pole, slammed into each other and fell to the ground.

CTV Video of it – brilliant!

The Black Seeds - Make A Move

Brilliant song from a great New Zealand band. Needs to be played loud!

Kogswell Porteur

This is my Kogswell Porteur 650b project bike which is now rideable but not complete.

- Wheels are Paul Components Hubs laced with DT Swiss Competition spokes to Velocity Synergy 650b hubs. The spokes alternate black and silver (for a laugh). Shod with Panaracer Col De Vie tyres.
- Nitto Montmartre bar from Velo Orange complete with cork grips and City Bike brake levers.
- Paul Components "Touring" Cantilever Brakes
- Brooks England B17 Special Copper Saddle
- Cane Creek Headset (threw out one that came with the frame!)

The Truvativ cranks are just thrown on from my singlespeed mountain bike so I could ride it - they are 180mm and catch on the ground if I turn sharply while pedaling.

The gearing is a very low 32 x 19 - which is great for around Auckland where I live. I can easily pedal up hills, cruise the flat, and coast down. It's not designed to be fast but I have been surprised about how light it is.

I’ve been riding it to work every day and am really enjoying it.

To do: Replace the cranks and fit the chaincase. Fit the mudguards. Get a porteur rack built for it and fit.

Doing silly stuff

It was originally intended on being a relative easy 50km mountain bike ride which we figured we’d cut out in around 4 hours. What it turned into was a 8 hour epic with the last 10km’s taking us around 3.5 hours alone. The track we’d selected to get to the Kaiaua Coast was not easily walkable never mind rideable.

  2000m of climbing over 53km’s.

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7517724

I feel like an old man today.

NZ Music on-demand

Radio New Zealand has a fantastic stream of Neil Finn & Friends recorded at the Roundhouse Studio.

They also have downloads of a heap of other muso’s here.