A day off work after two weeks straight including a trip up to Auckland, so I'm enjoying the sunshine and catching up on normal human tasks like washing clothes and filling up the dishwasher multiple times. Nice to have some time to myself although I'm a bit miffed I had to miss the First Party for yet another year. I feel the need to get out and ( Read more... )

Help, I've spent all day trapped in a Powerpoint presentation.

As compensation I now get to eat nice food and get drunk on the company's money.

Meh, still alive. Doing the whole silly hours thing again thanks to having one of my staff away on holiday. So I'm a wee bit tired and grumpy at the moment. Have to go up to Auckland next week for work stuff which I'm not really looking forward to. Work trips sounded much more fun when I didn't have to actually do them ( Read more... )

Watching "Inferno", classic 1970 Dr Who, back when they had just got colour (and damn it they were going to use it) and a garage door opener was far out science fiction. I'm not normally a Jon Pertwee fan but this one is a goodie... Mad Scientist, alternate fascist reality with Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart, green ooze that turns red shirts in ( Read more... )

I believe it is one of the fundamental laws of the Universe that any interesting trilogy in the library will have the first volume permanently out on loan.

Biked out to Little River today. Felt pretty good on the way out, mostly tail winds on what is a really quite twisty piece of road. Nice pie at Little River and a sit in the shade. Quite a few Mountain Bikers out there doing the new Rail Trail and a few Roadies who I assume were heading up the hill to train for Le Race ( Read more... )

Up to the Sign of the Kiwi again last night. For months I have been struggling up, doing the whole "what the hell am I doing to my self" half way up and telling myself that if I kept on doing it one day I would enjoy it. And then last night it actaully happened ( Read more... )

Weekends movies ( Read more... )

Google Moon

http://moon.google.com/

Go on, zoom all the way in.

So I was thinking today why Torchwood really hasn't hit it off with me when it clicked. It can't decide if it's an adult program or a kids program. OK, for the record it is screened at 10pm in the UK has had a bit of shagging and words like "hard on". The plots are, however, fairly simplistic kiddie style stories, each story neatly wound up at the ( Read more... )