Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. The next day – Adam took me for a blast around some favoured bits of the enduro riding paradise that is Kalgoorlie.
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Those grey boxes contained water in the outer skin – 3 liters each. All that bashing meant that both had sprung leaks and left me with just a small cup full of water. Here we are at the end of the dirt – very happy …
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. A bit further on. Well – it was dark, my battery gave up the ghost after I had left the high bean and main beam on for a while and so Adam towed me to a jump start. After a very short bit of dragging …
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Much later than we expected were were about halfway. Time for a tasty snack!
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Just around the corner I managed to lose that grey box anyway. The 4wd track had no room outside the tracks, so that meant the boxes and handlebars were constantly getting hit.
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. I really don’t like a lot of sand – it doesn’t go well with heavy bikes. This happened when there was a nasty tree coming up on the left (the left hand grey box would have hit it), and I didn’t want to attempt to …
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. But there was sand. Plenty of sand.
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. The track was stunning – greens, reds, golds and after a torrid morning of rain and cold, blue sky.
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. we went via the Holland Track – an old carting route recently reopened by 4WD enthusiasts.
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Time for a test run. So I fully loaded the bike, and headed off to Kalgoorlie with Adam.
The IRD’s SME website
A great thing. The IRD is going to set up a website to guide SME’s through their tax obligations at various stages of the business. They are outsourcing the work, and it will worringly include a bunch of Flash as part of the “interactive tool”. We can hope that it doesn’t turn into another Mission-on. …
Mission On is…Off
So I read Bernard’s eviseration of the Mission-on Website, and the debacle of spending over $10m on a useless flash monstrosity. The best part was his daughters quote: “Oh My God,” she yelped. “It’s all in Flash. I just never use Flash sites. You can’t navigate them, they’re usually just so crap. My browser is …
iPhone apps lift the game
It’s a fast moving world when you are developing for the mobile or web. We at Lingopal are in the throes of some fun stuff involving mobile phones and translation, and it was always going to be a nervous time when the iPhone apps launched. Sure enough, there are a few nice looking applications, but …
When money isn’t enough: Getting an iPhone
Michelin play hard to get, and it is the same with Apple. Their iPhone (and let’s face it pretty much all of their products) is so damn good that I simply must have one to satisfy my technolust. Yet by partnering with buffoons like Vodafone NZ, Rogers Telecommunications in Canada and pretty much all of …
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When money isn’t enough: Michelin Deserts
Michelin Deserts. I’d love (not even like) to buy each of these right now, but it seems that Michelin are determined to make it hard, or even impossible, for me. So hard in fact that I feel obliged to go elsewhere because I am so annoyed, but the product is so good that I really …
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Lance Wiggs 