25 December, 2006

Links

This is my webBlog please feel free to add a comment or ask a Question.


The links on the Left are for your convenience.

Foxton.

The Home Town.
here are some more links to Various sites about Foxton

http://www.enterprisecoastnz.com/pages/foxtonwindmill
http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/F/Foxton/Foxton/en
http://www.teara.govt.nz/Places/ManawatuAndHorowhenua/ManawatuAndHorowhenuaPlaces/8/en

Discoveries

There seems to be heaps of evidence popping up Lately about the Chinese discovery the Americas etc before Columbus.

Read about it below.
http://www.asiaticfathers.com/index.htm
http://www.1421.tv/pages/maps/1418.htm
http://www.1421.tv/pages/evidence/content.asp?EvidenceID=175
Zheng He
http://planet.time.net.my/CentralMarket/melaka101/chengho.htm

Snip url
Does exactly that ,When you have a really long url that you want to shorten for putting in a email etc, copy and paste it in to the box at this site press the snipurl button and it will shorten it for you. Copy the new snipurl and paste it in your email or whatever.

Free File Storage

MediaFire is a free file hosting service that allows unlimited file sizes and uploads, as well as unlimited downloads of files.
The service is really Neat, especially the upload progress page, which gives you a nice view of your upload progress, speed, and estimated time to complete the upload.
You can Register for a Free account or not.
MediaFire

Quadski

Gibbs Technologies Ltd, the world’s only High Speed Amphibian (HSA) technology specialist, unveiled a prototype of the first commercially viable high-speed amphibian Quadbike/All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) - Quadski.



kellys
Is one of the best help sites on the Internet. Starting from A to Z
The Tweaks page is a fantastic resource for fixing those irritating little bugs on your computer

Pressf1

New Zealand Forum for fixing your computer problems. Ask a Question , Give as much info as possible about your computer so responders know how to help you.

Youtube
Is for any video clips
Very good article here on the subject of downloading

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/07/10-interesting-things-you-can-do-with.html


Keepvid
If you want to save the Youtube videos copy and paste the url for the video into this site and click download, it will give you a link to download from.
This is one of many video howtos on saving them http://snipurl.com/15qub

You will also need a FLV Player to play them as they are in this format , this is the one I use. http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=95201

Trademe
My trademe page if you are looking for any thing computer related


Stolenz
Check out stolen Property in New Zealand

Wikepedia
Free online Encyclopedia , Incredible , just use the search pane

Dvd Movie Guides
How tos on Anything Dvd, Copying ,etc
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/

PS2 Repair
How to Repair Disk read errors.

Cassette to Cd
Pull those LP's, 45's, cassettes, and 8-tracks out of the basement and make them into digital files that can be burned onto CD or just played on your computer

Photo Manipulation
these are pictures that I have received in various Forwarded Emails over the space of a couple of years.
Apologies if you own them.

Floods of 2004

The February 2004 storms and flooding created the largest emergency event in the past 20 years . Intense rainfall and gale force winds from 15 - 23 February affected the lower North Island and the top of the South Island . The river peak of the Manawatu River was the second largest on record, the largest being recorded in 1902. The flooding caused hundreds of people to be evacuated from their homes (with just over 2000 people evacuated at the height of the event), farmers lost sheep and cattle stock, many rivers breached their banks and considerable areas of farmland were inundated by silt and floodwaters. Remarkably no lives were lost as a direct result of the event. the Stop bank at whirikina was breached just under the trestle bridge, Which resulted in Farms being flooded nearly all the way back to the Shannon Road. most of these were Landcorp Farms. The army was out at Foxton Beach sand bagging as the River threatened to flood the Town.
In Foxton theManawatu College was used as the civil Defence centre. The Home Economics department was used to prepare meals for the many farming families that were made Homeless. Every Day Lunches were delivered to the farms that were used to Milk all the cows that were spread around the country side. Breakfasts and Dinner were served up to about 60 people each day. This lasted for about 2 weeks as slowly the Share Milkers found accomadation around the district.
http://www.horizons.govt.nz/default.asp?pageid=92 General flood updates and stuff.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/2004024.html

Info on the Moutoa Sluice gates can be seen here.
http://snipurl.com/16a61

When Strangers Appear

This flick was originally titled "Shearer's Breakfast".
The film’s budget was $3 million and it was shot mostly in Foxton New Zealand in 2001.
Actors Radha Mitchell, Josh Lucas, Barry Watson, Kevin Anderson, Jonathan Blick,

Director Scott Reynolds

PLOT DESCRIPTION
A woman is placed in a dangerous position after a chance meeting with a stranger in this suspense drama. A drifter wanders into a quiet diner off a highway, and the woman who manages the place takes pity on him and gives him breakfast on the house since he doesn't have any money. The stranger looks like he's been injured recently, and when three men come in for something to eat, he warns the manager that the new customers are not to be trusted -- he has information that they want, and they would be willing to hurt her as badly as they hurt him in order to get it. Whom should she believe? And what will happen if the drifter happens to be right? Produced under the title Shearer's Breakfast, When Strangers Appear stars Barry Watson, Radha Mitchell, and Josh Lucas; though set in the United States, the film was actually shot in New Zealand.

This film was mostly filmed around Foxton. Mainly on the corner of Heckford road and Kere Kere Road.
The Garage was up Moutiti Road.

Nz Movies

This site has Previews of most of the Movies that have been made in New Zealand.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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