That completes our description of the red form. Now the blue form is quite interesting…

There’s some slow news around, but this one takes the cake. It’s a detailed report on how Smiths City is complying with minimum share holding regulations. Seriously? NZX listing rules require shareholdings, where the share price is between 25 cents and 50c, to be at least 1000 shares. The Smiths City board was asking those…

Craig Smith – Gone to Glory

Some readers may be familiar with Craig Smith and his work at Family Integrity. Until today, He has been fighting cancer. (From Facebook) Gone to Glory Dear friends, on Friday morning, Craig was very drowsy and spent most of the day asleep. He remained peaceful and quiet and deeply unconscious all afternoon. Late in the…

The Red Zone

Saw this on Stuff. Police have arrested 78 people, many drunk, for night-time breaches of Christchurch’s central city cordon since February’s earthquake. Figures release by police today showed the number of arrests was highest in May, when 18 people were arrested for being inside the red zone without permission. I was talking to someone recently who’d…

Liquefaction Map

    From the weekend’s Press. Click to Enlarge

That was a big one #eqnz

    Today’s     Feb 22nd   And the original from Sep4.

New Tsunami Footage

This is actually quite scary. What surprises me about it, is the way that the water initially comes gradually but quickly and steadily builds until it simply washes away that which appeared a few minutes ago to be quite solid. Hat Tip: Daily Caller

Christchurch Earthquake Memorial

Well, the memorial service was today. It was really too early, but sometimes there’s never a good time for these things. I am sure for many of those who have been part of the rescue/recovery operation, the long weekend will do them good. Certainly I heard reports on the radio that a great many people…

Good Post on Japan’s Nuclear Power Plants

Saw this post via twitter. It goes through what has happened, the safety measures, why they failed etc etc. The plant came close to a core meltdown. Here is the worst-case scenario that was avoided: If the seawater could not have been used for treatment, the operators would have continued to vent the water steam to avoid…

Earthquake in #Japan

Right now reports have the magnitude at 8.9 – massive. Watching Al Jazeera online, some screenshots of the tsunami. Update1: A photo of the Tsunami hitting – terrible. Update2: That fire is being carried by the flood

Not much bread left in Dunedin

Couplands ran out days ago. Supermarkets are starting to look very bare. In fact it’s even worse – these photos make it look like there’s more than there actually is. You can see the red sign behind the trolley which are again appearing all over, telling us that stuff is unavailable because of the earthquake.