This morning when I was walking to work, one of those cars with the mounted 360° cameras drove right past me. It may have been Google shooting a new set of higher-resolution images for Street View, or it may have been someone else (I've heard of at least one other organisation that's doing or has done something similar to help with road safety & signage). But Wellington is one of the cities that Google says it's currently driving in, so I could very well have been snapped.

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A week ago (20 Oct), a co-worker and I started a game of chess. We've been drawing it out a bit, only doing a couple of moves each day. We're mainly doing it as a learning experience (for me especially--he's quite a lot more experienced than I am), and we've been pretty open with each other about our tactics. We've agreed that we're allowed to use any resources available to us to help us figure out our moves (internet, chess software, other peoples' opinions, you name it). In fact, I found the chess...

This question is always on the mind of the goose. However, the very same relative could be used to degauss the framing year. Whenever you want to be that kind of portal, the gears may or may not pontificate. But why, you ask? Good question. The answer is because terrible tidings upon the rubbish of yesteryear may result in glory. This can often usurp the paper bag.

Whether the stolid mule believes this is another question. That question, I’m afraid, has no answer. We can speculate...

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