As I now have a USB cable I’ve been able to upload some photos.

San Diego is a cool town. Among the sites were the Pandas at San Diego zoo:

Then off to the Air and Space Centre. You’re greeted by the Apollo 9 capsule:

Apollo 11 unused food:

Phantom vs MiG:

SR71 Blackbird:

Giant magaritas in oldtown:

Just back at Mix from the indoor rifle range just out of town. Still have grease from the AK I fired. Tash had a go on an Uzi 9mm. Kinda fun but kinda scary at the same time, and some of the people at the range (although not the instructors) were pretty freaky.

Firing these things was f-ing scary, as you can probably see from the look on my face!

I’ve been using Picasa of late, you get a gig for free. Sweeeeeeeet.

It looked great when I took it, somehow I just couldn’t capture the ambiance…

This really is one of those classic ‘caption contest’ photos:

(Image courtesy of the fabulous redesign of the ‘The Independent’ newspaper’s website.)

I had to drop the beautiful VR6 off at the panelbeaters. While in Golden Bay an [idiot] left his handbrake off while he was at the pub, and his 4*4 instead used the back of our car to stop itself from rolling into a ditch. However, the upside of this was a pleasant walk down Cuba Street.

Brrr, southerly in Wellie. Still not too cold, but a bit of a shock to the system after the great weather of the last few weeks. I snapped this front coming across the harbour at the weekend.

So some fellows are keen to set up a Meraki network here in Wellington. Great idea!

I had a very brief play with one of the units on the weekend and it indeed is childishly simple to set up.

The signal wasn’t really strong enough for my wild garden and hillside terrain, but in an area that’s a little more densely populated this is going to rock. My plan had been to see if I’d be able to access my Meraki unit at the beach. I was dreaming, as the units only have a range of 50 metres (not 250 metres, about the distance to the beach). No great loss, what kind of nerd goes to the beach to access a wireless network?

The idea behind the “TheFreeNet - Aotearoa” is to provide free wireless broadband via a mesh network. This is a group of generous folks who share some of their bandwidth through a series of Meraki minis.

Selling my trusty Canon A40 on Trademe. *Sigh*, sad to see it go, I bought an Ixus in its place, and while smaller, it’s just not the same…

Bird waiting to board the ferry to Picton:

Our new wheels (and Bird relieving himself in the background):