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starfish

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south island viewed west of the north island

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trapped in the 80s

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marine reserve

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rebecca the puppet

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christchurch

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it’s been a week since the christchurch earthquake and the aftershocks are still going on.

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we visited just a few weeks ago and had a great time.  i’ve still got loads of pictures i haven’t posted of it, so here are a few.

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we went to the cathedral where one of the vicars was dressed as an octopus.  you’ve got to like that in a religious building

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and all the buildings were lovely

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it’s been interesting to watch the various online visualisations and map mashups over the last week.  a quick google search for christchurch quake map shows you a few.  crowd sourcing and machine mashups are all excellent, but the challenge becomes finding the definitive version.   

This one set the bar for visualising the relentlessness of the aftershocks

the new role for authorities in times of crisis is defining the ‘official’ twitter hashtags and url for the master crowd source google map.

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so to all chums, fellow countrymen/women, collagues, students, visitors and anyone else down in christchurch, we wish you all the best and hope things get back to normal as soon as

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here are a couple of my faves:

earth quakes over the last 6 months in new zealand (shown over 1 minute)

visualisation of official and crowd sourced data (click up the top to enable the crowd source data)

and mapquake seems to be the official google maps one

viewing area

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the penny drops

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the obligatory shoe check

not fallen, just waving

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this chap looks like he’s giving us a wave whilst lying on the beach.  how you doing fella ?

God juice

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please do not move the milk

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some flowers are not natural

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the olden days

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tiny tikis

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bikers searching for the lost shop

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security dogs

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if i was going to get some guard dogs, i probably wouldn’t choose dachsuns.  unless i was frightened of being burgled by oompah loompahs

new things every day

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if ever you wanted a motto for life, this could be it.  although you might just want to stick to the ‘new things every day’ bit and drop the ‘under $10 winter clearance rack’

flowers

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kezia took these photos on a recent visit to a sculpture garden.  very nicely done

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flower

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