http://www.deeknow.com Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:08:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The world is ending, run for the hills. Gwynne Dyer said so, it must be true. Ok, so he didn't actually say it was ending but he covered some pretty gloomy topics and delivered some alarming stats at his talk at Waikato University tonight that might lead you to believe ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/09/02/the-world-is-ending-gwynne-said-so/ Kym and I are on our winter break down at Ruapehu, have been here since the weekend, and now is the first time I've managed to escape the evil clutches of her-indoors to make a break for the nearest Internet terminal. I'll have to make something up for my ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/08/21/god-i-love-winter/ Like most bike riders I'm pretty much always keeping an eye on the trade mags and websites monitoring new bike releases and prices. Its not that bikers are loaded with dosh and can change bikes on a whim every few months, in fact I'd say every 2-4 years is pretty ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/07/29/bye-bye-blade-tenakoe-triumph/ Last night I went round to a bike riding mate's place and watched a GP race that totally restored my interest and faith in the vitality and health of the Grand Prix bike racing scene, much to my relief. The season has been shaping up wickedly, the wins have been shared ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/07/23/rossi-strikes-back/ Last weekend Kym decided enough was enough and she would have to procure her own Laptop seeing as she wasn't having much luck getting keyboard time on our communal desktop. So off to town we went with credit-card in hand, in to Smiths Dicks to browse the dozens of ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/07/14/inter-species-skyping/ I've had a pretty good history of local library use, priding myself on the knowledge obtained at relatively less cost than sponsoring a local big-chain bookstore. However my book reading habit has involved paying my fair share of fines to the point where I feel I'm almost owed an annual ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/06/26/scariest-little-library-in-texas/ Everybody knows right, that Earth has been visited by numerous alien races like the Grays, the Nordics and various Lizard people related to the Royal family for the last few thousand years, and that they have been present here semi-permanently since the 1940s. We also know of course that ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/06/24/how-to-take-over-a-planet/ When I'd been shopping around for a bike 3 years ago I rode a few middle-weight machines of various makes that all really impressed me. But then I made the fatal mistake of letting Heath from Hamilton Motorcycles talk me into jumping on a ZX10R. Fatal because it made all ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/06/21/bike-test-kawasaki-zx10r-2006/ For about 6 months now I've been gearing up for a bike replacement, buying magazines, reading website reviews and watching umpteen videos on YouTube. The domestic accountant finally authorised the spending and for the last few weeks now I've been waiting for the right day, conditions and opportunity to either ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/06/19/bike-test-yamaha-r6-07/ Kym and I took her niece and nephew to the Loritz Circus visiting Hamilton at the moment, the show is like a mini cirque du soleil I guess on a much smaller scale and budget, some bloody impressive acrobatic performances, here's a wee sample of video action: http://www.deeknow.com/2008/06/08/loritz-circus-in-hamilton/