Peak oil, now peak coal — preparing for peak fossil energy

18 December 2010

You’ve probably heard of peak oil by now. That’s where the global extraction rate of oil peaks and then enters a decline — when coupled with the increasing worldwide demand it spells very bad news. This is why your petrol is going to cost more and more over the next decade, and one reason why [...]

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Are we getting the right deal?

14 December 2010

Is New Zealand getting the right deal? Well there’s no question we’re doing a better job than Australia at the moment, but beyond that it is hard to know. The process is not transparent and the CFH has not released any of the standards that partners are expected to meet (if there are any). Worst [...]

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Time Machine for Unix

30 November 2010

The other day I was talking to someone about Time Machine and I was reminded of this old shell script that I wrote for backing up log files from remote hosts. Like Time Machine it archives into timestamped directories and uses hard links to deduplicate data. It is run by cron on the desired schedule [...]

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Vinyl Haps, huh?

31 October 2010
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I’m not sure how one gets onto the roof of one of Telecom’s most important exchanges, but someone seems to have worked it out. That’s the Courtenay Place exchange. The tag first appeared a few weeks back and is still there. Vinyl Haps? I’m not sure; sounds like an STD. Hey Telecom, how’s security?

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373.33

10 October 2010

There are 373.33 very awesome people in Lambton Ward. Thanks for your support. PS: I know that’s after two iterations so does not reflect the actual number of 1 votes. I hope to get some more detailed statistics shortly to see just how many votes I got in each ranking. UPDATE: 365 first preference votes [...]

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Kris Price for City Council

18 September 2010

Yep. I’m running for Council of the greatest city on earth: Wellington. To be more specific, the greatest ward in the greatest city: Lambton. There’s nine contestants, but only three will make it. Some of you good citizens have made it here because you are wondering just who is this Kris Price guy and why [...]

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25,000 kms of fibre, really?

31 May 2010

Work has taken me away (quite far away) from blogging for some time now. There are a few subjects I want to blog about, particularly regarding the architecture of the UFB network. If time permits I’ll try to get to these in the next few weeks. Also, I might consolidate this blog with my other [...]

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MasterCard Skimmed: Priceless

5 February 2010

Seems my MasterCard was skimmed somewhere in my travels, winding up in the hands of some crook in the UK. What I found interesting was plotting the thief’s actions with it. Seems they bought some Jewellery (big ticket item) in Torquay, then went on a road trip to Wolverhampton, taking a shopping spree at Tesco’s, [...]

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Roads vs. FTTH

1 June 2009

This article (Supercity set task of coordinating broadband) reminded me of an old debate I had with someone on the funding for broadband. Why is it that FTTH has had to face a far more stringent test of its business case than the billions of dollars poured into roads every year in this country? Even [...]

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