Poorly laptop

My laptop, the one I got back in January after its 3-month holiday at Datacom, has gone back.
Firstly, I should have taken it back straight away because the new hinge (that it had gone in for) had been fitted incorrectly so that the laptop didn’t latch shut properly and, it being a tablet, where you [...]

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Oh YAY

I don’t know why this has made me happy, but it has
Let there be light

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As if there were any doubt

Just for the record I got 24/25, and as is common for these things, it’s not at all about common sense, it’s about general knowledge.
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Avoid Willeston Carparks

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.
So I ring and [...]

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Gosh I’m famous

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 [...]

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More on Virginia Tech shooting

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 [...]

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Air NZ Ads

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.
Basically each ad tells the story of a [...]

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What’s this all about?

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
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Shooting at Virginia Tech

The shooting at Virginia Tech has had me thinking all day.
On the one hand, I’ve been thinking on the theoretical, academic, detached level. I notice my reaction is “oh, another one” and the desensitisation of reading about 33 young people dead within a few minutes gives me pause. These horrendous events seem to [...]

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Stuff stuffs up

Stuff stuffs up
Originally uploaded by cmaryon.
I don’t know if it happens only to us eclectic Opera users, or whether the problem affects Internet Explorer and/or Firefox as well, but Stuff’s photo headline thingamabob often gets out of sync.
Today I captured this beauty, John Howard not quite giving the finger to a headline of
“Mudaliar muscles [...]

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Wow!

We upgraded to Saturn Digital today and this means we get the joy of, not only Food TV but MTV including, wait for it wait for it, Pimp my ride
is there no greater glory
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ClustrMaps

Oh yay I am so happy
Not only can I apparently keep going with the existing map and not have to start over with a new one for the new blog host (we’ll see how that goes) but I can put it in the margin and not have to worry about it being on the front page all [...]

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Advance warning

Not blogging much at the moment. To be honest I’m still too busy at work and don’t feel like using the computer much when I get home. But the other reason is that this blog will be moving to WordPress (yes, Make Tea’s suggestion)
I’ve had a look at the features and I like [...]

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Snapper fishing

We had a lovely evening out yesterday, the sea by Porirua Harbour and Pukerua Bay was like a millpond, there was no wind and the sky was completely clear of cloud. There was a sensational sunset, orange and pink and purple at the horizon with blue sky above, even a bit like the sunsets [...]

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Unseasonal quiz – Christians only

See if you can guess the tune to this (the clue is in the last bit)
A B C D E F G
H I J K M N O P
Q R S T U V
W X Y and Z (pronounced Zee to rhyme)
No “L”, no “L”, no “L”, no “L”
No “L”, no “L”
Amazing the things you [...]

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