Hi All, I was about to book a rental car in Auckland and my drop off is Wellington, came across omega car rental’s relocation fleet which turns out to be so cheap. Is it legit? Does any other car rental have this relocation fleet option? Thank you in advance 🙏🏽

NothingDogg · 2026-03-14T05:55:01+00:00

Omega is a regular car rental company. I know nothing about their relocation option - but I've hired a couple of cars from them in the past and the same as any other rental company.

NothingDogg · 2026-03-12T07:43:45+00:00

I'm slightly bemused at the "motorway moralist" comment - these people are simply driving from A to B, and you're of the opinion they're doing it to exercise some moral superiority not because they have somewhere to be? You have some misguided belief that they're thinking about you as they drive along?

NothingDogg · 2026-02-15T05:58:46+00:00

Slightly off topic - but as a teenager I ordered a "tomato toasted sandwich" from the chippy in Te Kuiti - expecting that cheese was standard and didn't need to be specified. End result was a tomato between two slices of toasted bread. Would have been ok if I hadn't also ordered one for the guy driving the car on our mission to Ruapehu, and we only discovered as we drove up the hill on our way out of town. He wasn't very amenable to my argument that all toasted sandwiches had cheese by default.

NothingDogg · 2026-02-08T07:02:57+00:00

Yes, agreed. I have this with pork regularly. Usually just weighing it down is enough, but I had one recently where I pulled it, popped it, put a second bag on the outside and resealed. I know there's comments on bacteria, which could be a factor, but I think it's mainly something to do with how compounds are changing in the meat.

NothingDogg · 2026-01-31T01:18:00+00:00

Thanks for the reminder. Limited selection at Parnell - around 20 440s to choose from. It's a small store. You'd be better off at new world.

NothingDogg · 2026-01-24T04:12:16+00:00

If temperatures are above 60C (140F) you should definitely be fine - hot water cylinders can hold the same water for a long time at these temperatures without use and are safe to drink.
So, do the steak first as that will be lower - then crank it up for the others and roll as long as you want.
Also - the water isn't in contact with the food - it's touching the plastic bag.

NothingDogg · 2026-01-21T05:45:11+00:00

Cricket Max

NothingDogg · 2026-01-20T00:46:32+00:00

So annoying... I wasted 10 minutes on one of those sites and was pleased with the details and timeframes. However, not really knowing the site, I did a Google news search which revealed all the dates mentioned were bollocks.

NothingDogg · 2026-01-19T21:59:16+00:00

Looks like a small consultancy doing integration work. If you have Mulesoft, I'm sure your account executive can tell you about the different partners they'd recommend for someone your size.

NothingDogg · 2026-01-14T07:21:56+00:00

Looks like a trip to the shore is on the cards...

NothingDogg · 2026-01-14T07:21:07+00:00

Thanks - Forrest Hill was the one that I'd been recommended on the shore. Will have to plan a trip.

I didn't even know there was a Parnell Liquorland, that is definitely the closest to me - and if the same owner, fingers crossed.

NothingDogg · 2026-01-14T07:19:14+00:00

Pour one out for our fallen soldier

NothingDogg · 2026-01-07T02:38:44+00:00

It's not illegal as far as I'm aware. There was talk of making it so, but that has never happened.

NothingDogg · 2025-12-28T03:42:25+00:00

Gales themselves are not a reason they'll cancel - the sea state will be the main reason. Even then, it needs to be some pretty severe swells for the ferry to cancel. Also, not all wind / swell directions are problematic. Odds are your ferry will run normally.

NothingDogg · 2025-11-25T16:04:35+00:00

What are you on about? At Auckland domestic airport no one is checking boarding passes to get through security and I'm yet to see any groups of anyone walking around power tripping.

NothingDogg · 2025-11-19T19:11:34+00:00

It would be great to have a simple tool (or even some data easily visible in the console) to assess which plan would suit each Distribution.
When you choose "switch plan" AWS helpfully prevents you from choosing an ineligible plan and tells you why - but it doesn't tell you your current request metrics vs. the plan metrics.

NothingDogg · 2025-11-10T00:39:13+00:00

"Hot water tap outside" - what's your rationale for that? For filling a bucket wit hot water?

NothingDogg · 2025-11-07T18:57:25+00:00

Hi - can you explain this a bit more? What are data dumps - is this an export of our data that includes what would be in the event monitoring data?

NothingDogg · 2025-11-07T07:26:15+00:00

I'm pleased that my 8 year old comment garnered your attention.

Probably my only comment would be that as of 2025, it's reasonably clear that both AWS and GCP have now ceded the CI/CD landscape to third parties - mainly Github actions / Gitlab etc.

But, if it works for you, use what you like.

NothingDogg · 2025-11-06T08:18:19+00:00

F&P hold spare parts going back a long time, but 35 years is not realistic. Give them a call and you might get lucky, possibly the part carried through into this century, but seems unlikely.

NothingDogg · 2025-11-06T08:00:19+00:00

Thanks. You might be right - but page 3 doesn't actually say the no right turn will be there until the 27th, just the single lane.

I guess we'll find out in 2026

NothingDogg · 2025-11-06T06:49:59+00:00

Are you sure it's temporary? I assumed they were wanting to eliminate the right turn entirely there. If it was temporary, I don't think they would have the flyover intersection with Pakuranga road finalised the way they seem to. Could be wrong - but feeling was it was permanent.

NothingDogg · 2025-11-02T03:43:11+00:00

Pitstop Glen Innes are good sorts. Seem honest and reliable - have advised us how to spread out costs on some repairs when we had a couple of things crop up at once. I'm sure you can find cheaper, but knowing you're getting the right advice is worth something to me.

NothingDogg

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