My good friend Patrick Davey‘s New Zealand “trip” has lasted what 3/4 years now Patrick? It was 2004 when I was over there to visit you anyway.

When he isn’t trying to kill himself by climbing mountains, snowboarding or living in a house with no central heating (come on New Zealand, it’s not that warm over there), Patrick engages in the black art of computer wizardry.

He recently decided to combine two of his abilities in co-operation with some mates, to create SnowPool.org.nz. As they put it, “Car sharing to the hills”.

The idea is simple, most of the ski resorts are a good bit outside of Christchurch, their local stomping ground, and the same is true for most of the other ski fields around New Zealand, so why not hitch a ride or have someone use up the spare seat in the back.

They save gas money and of course less cars = less co2 = saving the planet.

I’m particularly fond of their “so low fi it’s hi-fi” cutting edge graphics. The logo speaks for itself:

The site is basc at this stage, but an RSS feed was added today so it is a work in progress. It’s always best to start simple and build as you need to.

I particularly, like the cookie captcha system for keeping evil robot computers at bay (the ones without eyes at least).