Changing spots on the sun

Posted on 13th Feb 2012 16:55 | By Anonymous Author

Weather Eyewith John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero.  The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928) who, while working at The...

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What’s right about copyright?

Posted on 2nd Feb 2012 11:34 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim CopyRight The Right not to be copied The Right to enjoy ALL profits from your work Unless you have been ensconced in the bush for a few months you will have noticed that copyright is a big issue at present with SOPA and PIPA; we must also not forget ACTA. What you may not have realised is that...

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No trend for February rainfall

Posted on 31st Jan 2012 14:32 | By Anonymous Author

Weather Eye with John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of February have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 (except for 1904,1908,and 1909). The graph show the range of rainfalls from a high of 343 mm in 1936 to a low of 7 mm in 1973. The long-term average rainfall for Tauranga for February is 90 mm. The graph show no significant overall...

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Emergency tech ideas – first-hand

Posted on 19th Jan 2012 14:57 | By Andrew Nimick

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim Some of you may remember a post I did way back when SunLive first launched as it is today, about the use of smart phones in emergency situations. My focus was on ambulance crew and doctors. Having been involved in a car crash last November and then ridden in an ambulance to Thames Hospital –...

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Tauranga rainfalls since 1898

Posted on 9th Jan 2012 08:40 | By Anonymous Author

Weather Eye with John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites over the last 114 years. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was the Tauranga Harbour, from November 1904 to April 1907 the site was described as simply ‘Tauranga’, from January 1910 to December 1923...

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e-reading – right on

Posted on 6th Jan 2012 14:37 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim Well Christmas has come and gone. As ever it was a great time and as ever I think I ate too much. So this summer it should be diet and exercise. I say should be, if like me you got an e-reader and have a heap of books – then the temptation will be to lounge about and do some reading. Judging...

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The age of paper in place

Posted on 12th Sep 2011 09:37 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim So the city councillors turned down iPads and laptops in favour of paper? Judging from the comments, it’s all about age – well there may be something in that. But consider, while castigating the councillors for not leaping into the ‘21st century’, it is very easy to forget...

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Toshiba Tablet Review

Posted on 22nd Aug 2011 15:44 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim My thanks this week to Noel Leeming in Tauranga for the loan of the new Toshiba At100 Tablet . First I will make a comparison to the Acer Tablet I used a few weeks ago. What I noticed was one of those strange anomalies of the PC world. The Toshiba had the same internal set up as the Acer with...

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Tabled: Tablet vs iPad

Posted on 1st Aug 2011 10:08 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim You may or may not have noticed that there has been a recent appearance on the market of Android tablets. Many PC manufacturers have released one or more tablets running Android Honeycombe, though only a few have released tablets with Windows. I wanted to have a look at one of these and thanks...

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Fond farewell on US dream

Posted on 19th Jul 2011 10:35 | By Andrew Nimick

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim I mentioned a New Zealand made learning management system in my last post called Litmos. www.litmos.com/ is a great system which was built for business use. The whole thing came about when Rich’s dad asked him if he could build a rapid training system for him. There was a need as nothing...

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