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One of the more popular searches in New Zealand is earthquakes today nz. I can understand why. There are frequent earthquaques throughout New Zealand and even more so on a regular basis in Wellington.

Whenever there is a decent earthquake I jump on Google to find a site which shows information on the latest event.

So to save a bit of time here are a couple of links to take you straight there:

United States Geological Society (USGS): Provides information about the latest larger earthquakes in New Zealand.

GeoNet: Provides almost up to the minute information on the latest quakes in New Zealand, Geonet is a collaboration between the Earthquake Commission and GNS Science.

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This is a Kawasaki Ninja 250 that HapaD mentioned in his comments to the post about the Hyosung Comet 250.

I’ve heard mostly bad things about this bike (The Comet) stateside. People purchase it with vital components missing, it gives a lot of false neutrals and is a little heavy for a 250. ninja is the way to go. Can’t argue with the time tested kawi enjine.

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Here’s how we found it …….

A little while back the page rank on one of our sites was reduced from 4 to 3. Not a huge deal as did not seem that SERPs were affected.

We had hoped the PR would move up to 5 because of all the new links we had garnered, but perhaps we’d lost some also. Or perhaps we’d been penalized along with a number of other sites who saw an artifical drop.

There was no way to tell and no point in losing too much sleep over it.

Some time after, our article directory, was shut down by the hosting company for using too much MSQL resources. Continue Reading »

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Hyosung Comet 250. Here we go another bike which looks great. Its another Hyosung too. This photo was taken in Tauranga, New Zealand, when we took the kids for a walk along the beach.

I think its a Hyosung Comet 250 probably 2003.

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Its been a while (8 years) since Robyn and I have been mountain biking. While we did buy bikes for the boys, we have until now been without wheels.

Saw a good deal on some end of season Avanti Hammer Disc at the local Avanti dealer, so decided to take the plunge and get some wheels for both of us.

Compared to previous bikes we have owned, these are great to ride. The disk breaks, good quality gearing and lightweight components make it really easy to take on the hills. Continue Reading »

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