worker-guy tip for the day

We've just bought a new vehicle, and the engine is a "common rail diesel", so I did a search and looked it up. Apparently the common-rail refers to a pipe that runs the whole lenth of the engine, alongside the valved injectors. This pipe holds diesel fuel at a fixed pressure of about 1500 bar..... 22,000 psi staring you in the face?

Only dull cause your a kiwi, and kiwis cant play cricket? ;)

dull, boring game (at which Aussie excels), with well lubricated spectators. even duller than baseball, but without the steroids. players do so little exercise that injuries are commonplace.

NZ has had a team of specialist fielders for about 15 years now. Alas, batting and bowling are also important parts of the game.

Cheers Terry

bowling is an over-arm technique, and the ball often bounces before nearing the batsman.

as a kiwi, I am compelled to (yet again) bring up the infamous under-arm bowling incident. In a NZ-vs-Aussie test match some 20yrs ago, NZ needed a 6 (hit out of park on full) to win off the last ball (not very likely). So the aussie bowler bowled underarm, rolling the effing ball along the ground (thereby making a 6 impossible). piss-poor sportsmanship, but technically legal. They won, the rest of the cricket-playing world was disgusted, and IIRC underarm bowling was immediately banned.

if the ball hits the ground then makes it to the edge of the oval (delineated with a rope), its automatically 4 runs. If it goes out on the full, its 6 runs.

Cricket used to be fun, sitting on the terraces (grass bank). uni students would bring sofas and kegs of beer along, and have a jolly good time. Alas, some idiots decided setting said sofas on fire was a good thing, and that was the end of that.

Cheers Terry