Well folks, I've decided to make the move right now. I won't be posting here any more, at least, not at the blog, but I will still keep up with friends and communities ( Read more... )

My laptop, the one I got back in January after its 3-month holiday at Datacom, has gone back ( Read more... )

I don't know why this has made me happy, but it has

Let there be light

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It's not too hard to do, they only have one carpark building and it's full. It's the one on the corner of Victoria and Willeston. We've been renting there for several years and they've sent us a letter today to say we must vacate our space. No reason given ( Read more... )

Well nearly

Tonight I met Helen Clark, who shook my hand and said "Thank you for all your work"

yay

We had met before actually, but I didn't remind her. She and I were jointly looking, with disdain, at Air NZ departure monitors at Auckland Domestic. But that was a while ago and I forgive her for not remembering.

I was surprised to see the pro-gun lobby making mileage out of the tragedy earlier this week.

In case you didn't catch it, the argument goes something like this:

• Everyone has the right to defend themselves by using a gun to kill someone (we have to say this bit, it's a requirement for everything else in the pro-gun lobby)
• Virginia Tech was a gun- ( Read more... )

The new Air New Zealand ad campaign has been receiving some press attention. Rather belatedly, because when I first saw one of the ads a couple of months ago I was disturbed by it then, and I wasn't the only one, we talked about it at work ( Read more... )

Is this just bad reporting, or is Gillian Anderson being a bit precious?

She had to do it for a couple more years because it was the only way to make more money? What?

Lost my sympathy vote

The shooting at Virginia Tech has had me thinking all day ( Read more... )