http://www.metafilter.com/tags/auckland Posts tagged with 'auckland' at MetaFilter. Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:24:27 -0800 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:24:27 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/52245/Auckland%2Dgoes%2Doldschool <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&amp;ObjectID=10386171">Power is out for around half the people in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland.</a> At around 8:30 this morning, high winds blew a grounding cable onto high-voltage cables in the Otahuhu substation, causing about 1/3 of the load to fail, including all buildings and traffic control in the central city. I guess no one has heard of redundancy, nor learnt from <a href="http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/apr1998/nz-a23.shtml">prior mistakes</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52245 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:24:27 -0800 auckland newzealand power snafu pivotal http://www.metafilter.com/34011/48Hours <a href="http://www.48hours.co.nz/">48Hours</a> the New Zealand version of <a href="http://www.48hourfilm.com/">The 48 Hour Film Project</a> was recently completed in Auckland and Wellington, and attracted over 130 teams. 116 teams managed to complete their films in the timeframe. Now <a href="http://www.nzshortfilm.com/film,1351.sm">the</a> <a href="http://www.nzshortfilm.com/film,1289.sm">Auckland</a> <a href="http://www.nzshortfilm.com/film,1326.sm">winners</a> <a href="http://www.nzshortfilm.com/channel,1257.sm">finalists</a> and many other <a href="http://www.nzshortfilm.com/channel,889.sm">entrants</a> are online for all to see. With more, including the Wellington entries to come <a href="http://www.nzshortfilm.com/channel,48hours.sm">soon!</a> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.34011 Tue, 29 Jun 2004 03:19:08 -0800 48Hours Auckland NewZealand The48HourFilmProject Wellington sycophant