June 2006

Autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity … just sayin. Oh, and Wild Kitten!

Woohoo! My citizenship ceremony is on the evening of the 17th. Now I just have to sing the national anthem and learn the Affirmation of… Read More »They let anyone in. Its a bloody crime, I tell you…

wins by for ever, although assistance was provided by the speediness of her internet connection.

Google Earth have updated their Wellington imagery. Round about feb-march this year, judging from the state of assorted construction around about the place. So, its… Read More »Swoon!

Coz of today’s dissappointingly slack contribution from and in lieu of any more bombshells from , you get to be treated to what’s on my… Read More »Randomness

F&FIII – Tokyo Drift should have ended with the bad guy’s Celica falling off the cliff, landing upside down on top of the good guy’s… Read More »Tokyo Drift

My, don’t they grow up fast. After two weeks: After one year: And I’m sure the knowledgeable amongst us will tell us what colour that… Read More »Horsey pics for horsey people

“Socialism collapsed because it did not allow prices to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow prices to tell the… Read More »All quotey today

Shock horror! Ministry finds its own arse without assistance: MED says “Nuclear power too costly”

I had yet another really boring dream. This time, the van ran out of diesel in Wiltshire. I got the spare fuel tank and walked… Read More »Minor irritation

Despite all the snuggling into multiple duvets, there’s one part of me that still gets cold. Not my head, you’d be surprised at how warm… Read More »Erk

The blocks show how much we’ve been spending on the transmission lines. Yup, since privatisation, damn near sold all. There’s good privatisation and there’s bad… Read More »Why does the power keep failing?

How to lose a war: Rear Adm Harris said: “They are smart. They are creative, they are committed,” “They have no regard for life, either… Read More »How to:

I have nothing to do. This is a whole new experience for me. I could tidy and clean, but its pretty clean here. I could… Read More »Oh crap

Its not often you get to walk out of an exam going “fvck yeah!” So I think I may have crossed the line between annoyingly… Read More »Fvck Yeah

Yet another press release slagging off the Green party, from NZ’s climate skeptics claiming that New Zealand has got colder since 1998 and therefore climate… Read More »How to mislead

Can you tell the difference between these graphs: and One is a measure of reality and can be explained with one paragraph. This we call… Read More »Science, part 3

(in which our hero realises things about mortgages that they really should teach at school) We’re building a house in Brooklyn, or nearly about to… Read More »How to save (one third of) a MILLION DOLLARS on your mortgage

Wot I wrote: “Our national energy security is at growing risk from our total dependence on overseas supplies of oil. Our economy is affected by… Read More »On eloquence