Saturday 31 July 2004
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Actually posted on 7 February 2005.
Until I posted this, there was nothing here for the month of July 2004. That was the month I came back from a New Zealand sabbatical and I was a bit busy. But having a missing month in the monthly archive just looked odd, and I had to fix it. So, here is a dose of lorem ipsum.
![Toyota Ipsum](images/IpsumCar.jpg)
Lots of second-hand Japanese cars are exported to New Zealand. They include cars with strange English names concocted for the Japanese domestic market — I particularly like the sound of the Suzuki Afternoon Tea, the Diahatsu Social Poze, the Mazda Secret Hydeout and the Mitsubishi Mini Active Urban Sandal.
![Ipsum Badge](images/IpsumBadge.jpg)
How did the Toyota Ipsum get its name? I like to think that a product designer used Ipsum as a placeholder. Somehow the marketing people never came back with a real name, and the car slipped into production with this odd badge.