Life in Wellington, New Zealand, photos, and dogs

For several reasons I've decided to close this blog and incorporate existing and future posts into my main blog, KnowIT.

Please visit that blog for posts and comments.

 

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Kiwi bike safety campaign: 1.5m for 1.5M

1.5 million cyclists on New Zealand roads fear for their safety. Give us 1.5 metres of clearance. Our lives depend on it!

Read the full article ⍾ General 4 September 2009 0 comments

Singing about climate change and environment

Michael Jackson’s 1996 music video was a call to action on the environment.

Read the full article ⍾ General 28 June 2009 0 comments

The King and Queen of Spain

The Spanish Air Force bring the King and Queen of Spain to Wellington.

Read the full article ⍾ General 23 June 2009 0 comments

This blog’s on the move

There may be some disruption while I move this blog and photo album to a new server.

Read the full article ⍾ General 3 May 2009 0 comments

Problems and changes

I’m having a few problems with the photo gallery features, so have turned off the sidebar images for a while. I’ve also decided not to post my Twitter feed here any more — it’s swamping my infrequent real blog updates. I’ll go back and remove old Tweets soon. What this blog will have is irregular [...]

Read the full article ⍾ General 12 May 2008 0 comments

Unfocused clouds over Wellington

· · This morning I noticed these weird clouds over Wellington. You may think these photos are just out of focus, but the clouds really were like that. It was pretty much as though wind from one direction had blown clouds at one elevation into wave forms, while wind from another direction had created cross-waves [...]

Read the full article ⍾ General 3 April 2008 0 comments

Books be gone!

I’m de-cluttering, cleaning up and cleaning out — ruthlessly. I want to dispose of around 100 books: about 50 currently listed on Bookmooch, and another 50 or so listed on the page Books to go. Some in the list on my site I’d be happy to give away; others I’d like to sell (mainly the [...]

Read the full article ⍾ General 27 December 2007 0 comments

Twitter on blog

I realised today that updates on this blog are few and far between, yet I post to Twitter often several times per day. In some respects Twitter has taken over from this blog, though not entirely. Today I’ve added Alex King’s Twitter tools plugin and this blog will now echo my daily tweets. The first [...]

Read the full article ⍾ General 7 December 2007 0 comments

Medicinal chocolate wheaten

One of the things I love about my MacBook Pro and wireless internet is that any room in my house can be an office. After several days of sniffling and sneezing with an incipient cold I have allocated today for working from bed. This has the enormous advantage of leaving plenty of room for as [...]

Read the full article ⍾ General 20 July 2006 0 comments

Oddity 59 finds a new home!

Welcome to the new Oddity 59. I’ve been moving posts across from the old site, but photos and other things still need to be updated. Meanwhile, please visit http://mactips.blogs.com for photos or anything else that you find missing from here. If you come across any obvious errors, please let me know.

Read the full article ⍾ General 18 June 2006 1 comment

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