WAPF RANDOM UPDATES FROM 2015

Here are  a few interesting things that whizzed past on our radar in 2015: The “fibre is good” con   About 12 years ago when we were telling people saturated fat was an essential nutrient, and “low fat diets” were far from healthy, a lot of people freaked out.Now if we start telling people that […]

DOW CHEMICALS

Dow Chemicals – Manufacturing Toxins and Breast Implants What is it about powerful US companies and their tendency to do absolutely anything to maximise their profits with no regard to how many people they kill off if it makes them a buck. Could it be that they are just like the American government? Could it […]

Apricot kernels are a threat to the cancer industry

Apricot Kernels The NZ government rushed through legislation banning the sale of apricot kernels, under the pretense of them being toxic, in January 2016. The real reason they did so was to protect the cancer industry. Where can I get apricot kernels? As long as you don’t live in a country where apricot kernels are repressed, they are fairly easily obtained, as anywhere […]

IMAGE SIZES ON WORDPRESS

BEST SIZES FOR IMAGES ON WORDPRESS This is something I found confusing to begin with, so this post is a bunch of notes to myself. A big part of why I found this confusing is that coming from an old school background in Dreamweaver, I was used to thinking in terms of choosing my image […]

LINUX

LINUX A n00b goes for a test drive This is a bunch of stuff I originally wrote in 2010, and Linux has moved on a bit, but many of the the points below are still current. Here is a great up to date summary Information wants to be free Sometimes Linux looks to me like […]

Standing Room Only

Standing Room Only Hanging out down at Lyall Bay on New Years Eve I got the same vibe I used to get at the beaches up north on New Years Eve – that sense of danger, that everyone is going to drink a crate of piss, smoke a bag of weed, start a riot, throw […]

OUR NEW WORDPRESS WEBSITE

WE HAVE GONE ALL WORDPRESS When we did our first website in 1998 we used FrontPage 98 and posted our pages on a Paradise Homepage. In 2004 we switched over to Dreamweaver MX2004 and moved our pages to Free Parking, where they have been ever since. We have long put off modernising, but in September […]