NZ_Matt

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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Air New Zealand have introduced "pay what you weigh" http://promos.airnz.co.nz/payweigh/
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
I blame Disney. Killing an Elephant that is clearly a pest is no different than the thousands of businessmen that shoot Deer and Tahr for sport every year. Dickish move by Bob tho, he's truly testing the adage that "any publicity is good pu
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Mae Sai and Chiang Rai were the closest towns to the event. The report that buildings swayed in Bangkok is almost certainly false, Bangkok is 800km from the epicenter. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake... Search
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
I spent a week clearing this crap out of people back yards with the student army of volunteers. They estimate 200000 tonnes of the silt had to be cleared. Here's an example of the silt coming out of the ground minutes after the quake. htt
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
You are forgetting that most of them are a long distance offshore 100+km. They can barely be felt in the cities, if at all.
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
The destruction from the earthquake itself could've been a lot worse in Japan if the epicenter was closer to Japan and not 200km offshore. This map shows that the shaking in Japan was not of a destructive intensity in most areas. http://ea
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Probably not, most of them are 100+km offshore.
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
The media are failing to point out that the Earthquake was 200+km offshore. There is a huge difference between an 8.9M 200km offshore and an 8.9M directly below a city. The ground motions recorded were relatively low in the cities and not v
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
The fact the epicenter was 200 km offshore is why the shaking wasn't too destructive. The Great Hanshin earthquake was only 20km from Kobe. The distance from the epicenter is often overlooked by the media. PGV (peak ground velocity) is a mo
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
I experienced this after the Christchurch earthquake. Without electricity cordless phones are also useless. Our national communications company put a message out asking everyone to bring in their old corded phones so they could be sent dow
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
My thoughts are with those in Sendai and the other affected areas, the helicopter shot on tv is terrifying. The tsunami appears to have been more destuctive than the actual earthquake. The earthquake was a long way offshore (150km) so I ima
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
That is why all the training programs tell you to start out lifting light (even just the bar by itself) and gradually add weight over time as your technique improves. If you use common sense and follow the guides you won't get hurt.
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Thank you 99designs! Very generous. I live 20km west of Christchurch city and was fortunate to escape largely unaffected. My heart goes out to those that have lost Family, Friends, Homes and Businesses. The last week has been a surreal expe
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
I live in Christchurch. Sometime over the next few days I'd like to post a quick writeup detailing the significant role that the web and social media has played following the earthquake, if anyone is interested? Also worth mentioning, a gro
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Oh America are playing their version of rugby today? I did wonder why my twitter timeline suddenly filled up with tweets about commercials :P
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
The great thing about reddit is that you can unsubscribe from all the crap and only follow the niche sub-reddits that you are interested in. It's an entirely different experience when you remove /r/reddit, pics, videos, wtf, athiesm, politi
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKuaO6P8ZAg
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Your first step should be to get your diet and gym routine right. In the past you have probably been doing some halfhearted gym routine and not seeing any results. When you start seeing real results the motivation will come easy. Check out
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Those ad placements above the content get very high click-throughs when someone arrives at the page via search. One technique that I've used is to only show the adsense to search visitors. Regular visitors tend not to click ads so chances a
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
oh well, I guess I'll settle for less money if it also means less AIDS. http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/NZ/AU
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
To be fair, Facebook isn't the only ad network filled with dodgy ads. Matt Cutts wouldn't have to look far to find other similar "scams".
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Fitness is already a solved problem despite someone trying to reinvent it every year. Here's an excellent pragmatic overview covering everything you need to know: http://www.liamrosen.com/fitness.html
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
These cheap Android phones are a bigger threat to Nokia than Apple. Internationally Nokia feature phones are still incredible popular and pretty soon Android phones will be priced low enough to be extremely competitive. I bought my first sm
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Watch this short film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBikj3kRco It tells the story of John Kirwin, a legendary Rugby player here in New Zealand. He was supposed to be living the dream as one of the best and toughest Rugby players in the
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Slightly off topic but if anyone is serious about improving their health and fitness (weight loss or strength) I can't recommend this guide enough: http://www.liamrosen.com/fitness.html . It's a great guide that provides succinct advice w
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
The status box auto-focuses, so it's still only two clicks.
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
Most computer users are not powerusers and they don't need a powerful PC or OS. Current operating systems are over complicated for casual users and limitations work as an advantage for people like my parents. They shouldn't need to understa
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
I don't really ask for stuff but I have bought myself Rugby World Cup tickets and I plan to go Skydiving in January.
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
That is neat. I guess they don't want to promote this feature too much while it is in their best interests to keep everyone on Facebook. It'd be interesting to see what impact this would have on Bings market share if this feature was made o
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by NZ_Matt 16y ago
It's very possible that Facebook could integrate with Bing.

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