Neerav Bhatt's blog: news, analysis and reviews about clean green options for Australian transportation & homes
This book is not just an account of a year spent in a garbage strewn, rat infested alley in lower Manhattan. You’ll learn more than you thought was possible about rats and will probably be better at spotting rats in your own town/city when... Read More
Have you recently experienced an Ohnosecond moment? I just did and I can tell you that it’s not fun :-( but you can learn from it People who regularly read my blog articles will know that they’re often fairly long, with lots of useful... Read More
In 2008 the Bowral Tulip Time Festival is scheduled to start on 25 September and close on 8 October 2008. Bowral was founded in the 1860’s and has become a summer retreat for Sydney residents. Many of Bowral’s earlier visitors built... Read More
On Saturday March 10 2007 twelve members of the UTS Outdoor Activities Club met at 7:30 outside Central station and caught the 7:45 train to Wondabyne station which is less than one train carriage in length! Note you will need to tell the train guard... Read More
Last Sunday I competed in the 2007 Manly Metrogaine run by the New South Wales Rogaining Association inc (NSWRA) in the UTS Novices team (for people who’d never done rogaining before). Our team were all members of the UTS Outdoor Adventure Club... Read More
In the middle of Summer at the end of 2006, I went on a 4 day bush walking and camping trip organised by fellow members of the UTS Outdoor Adventure Club (OAC) to Kosciuszko National Park that ended with us waking up on Monday, New Years Day 2007 on... Read More
The author of Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries, Mark Jordan states that the book “is aimed at people who are developing collections of digitized and born-digital documents according to standard library principles, with a focus... Read More
Weasel words are the words of the powerful, the treacherous and the unfaithful, spies, assassins and thieves. Bureaucrats and ideologues love them. Tyrants cannot do without them. The Newspeak of Orwell’s 1984 is an invention, but also a satire on... Read More
The DQT (Driver Qualification Test) is the final test for new drivers in New South Wales to pass before they can progress from a P2 driver licence to a full unrestricted Silver or Gold licence. After I passed the DQT I thought I’d publish all the... Read More
What would you say if I told you that General Motors (GM) created an electric car for the Californian market that was easy to use, looked great and was so efficient that it made the Toyota Prius look like a petrol guzzler … and then repossessed... Read More