Today in NZ history- 26/03/1896 - Brunner mine disaster kills 65At 9.30 a.m., an explosion tore through the Brunner mine in Westland’s Grey Valley. Two men sent underground to investigate were later found unconscious after inhaling black damp, a suffocating mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
- 27/03/1883 - The 'Sallies' come to New ZealandTwo English Salvation Army officers landed at Port Chalmers to set up a New Zealand branch of the Christian evangelical movement.
- 27/03/1984 - Trades' Hall bombingCaretaker and unionist Ernie Abbott was killed on 27 March 1984 when a bomb exploded inside Trades’ Hall on Wellington’s Vivian St.
- 28/03/1923 - Forest and Bird foundedThe New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society was formed at a meeting in Wellington called by a local conservation advocate, Captain Ernest ‘Val’ Sanderson.
- 26/03/1896 - Brunner mine disaster kills 65
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Simple Launcher for Android phones
For the past few months I’ve been a voluntary coach at a New Zealand programme called Digital Seniors, which is being piloted here in Wairarapa. Most of our advice and tweaking during the clinics we hold in the region’s towns … Continue reading
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Violating mobile device patents
Here’s something that looks like the back of an Android phone. It’s just a shade bigger than my Galaxy Nexus, and though it lacks a camera lens, it’s an obvious ripoff. Except that it is a plastic case containing a … Continue reading
Worms turn
The worm turns. And having turned, turns again. Once upon a time, in the 1980s, I used Apple computers and wrote about them for publications in New Zealand and the USA. I was a fan. By the time I went … Continue reading
Sometimes Apple drives me up the wall
I love my iPad but sometimes I despair of it – and Apple. I have a particular spreadsheet file I use daily that I store in my marvellous Dropbox folder. That sends my file to the computing cloud, so I … Continue reading
Google Voice howlers
Today, on my brand-new Ideos X5 Android smartphone (of which more in a forthcoming post), I tested the voice-to-text option, which is available via a microphone icon on the keyboard. It uses Google Voice, which is available on any computer … Continue reading
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