Time for bed I guess. It has not been all that long a day… Just a lot of things to do. Tomorrow will be a bit quieter I guess. But we will see. I have a few errands to run – not sure how long they will take. Hopefully not all that long since I have some fun stuff to do…

Photo of the Day

For some reason I do not have many photos of my lectures and presentations. I always have good intentions, and nothing ever happens. I guess I am more interested in giving the talk than documenting the fact that. One of the ones I actually have a phot of is this one in New Plymouth in New Zealand. This was at the local Polytechnic from memory, and went fairly well. They were really happy to get me there since the place is in the middle of nowhere on the west coast of the north island of New Zealand.

They have some interesting issues – their whole area is centred on a huge dormant volcano, and if it were to blow there would be huge problems. Therefore the local Civil Defence organisation (SES equivalent) is fairly active. And many of the peopele I was talking to were involved with it. This second photo was taken about half way up the mountain – From memory we were about 1000m up. And we could have gone further but it was getting rather cold. A bit too cold actually – it was the middle of winter.

The locals arranged a tour of the local power station for me – rather interesting particularly since I had had some run-ins with the same contractors that they had. For the same reasons.