alright – here we are, Tuesday night, sitting around at the flat. “Star Wars” Episode I is on the telly. So why is the telly on mute and the stereo cranked right up? Simple. “The Phantom Menace” SUCKS. Oh yes. We all know that. What happened to the most significant cultural reference point of my…

Today I purchased a digital camera. It further marks my descent into complete dependency on my laptop and electronic gadgets. The camera is a lovely Canon PowerShot A40 . It is neat. I nearly bought a Ricoh Caplio RR30 . The Ricoh had higher resolution and some other cool features for the price, but given…

The winter is coming to London. The trees are starting to look as though they are dead. It is cold. It is also raining. And someone has a washing machine on their balcony. If it is old and waiting to be thrown away/recycled that may not seem so strange. Except that this one is plugged…

We’re sitting in the flat watching a program called “Faking It”. The concept is to get a plebe and then a group of coaches teach them a lifestyle. They have four weeks to pass themselves off to a group of experts. The point of this episode is to get a London pen pusher and turn…

I just checked the site usage statistics for the first time in nearly a year(!). October was an interesting month. I thought that no one was actually looking but I was proved wrong. There were more visitors than just me. More incentive to crack on with improvements. It goes on, the upgrading goes on. Why…

Pilchards on toast for lunch… hmmmm. Day three of the Liver Cleansing Diet. Have broken the rules every day so far but I am eating a little better than usual. Must buy a can opener. And for inspiration: Emulate3 . That is fantastic. For me it’s back to the old drawing board as they say….…

So they upgraded the server today and I have noticed some funny stuff on the site. Some things are not working as they should be. I will get it all fixed very soon though.

Sinice I have posted the site I guess that I should treat it as such and include some proper material. I noticed that HDU (one of the finest Dunedin bands) have a web site . I wish I had taken some pics of them in ’95 (or was it ’94?). I can still remember the…

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though…

my friends and I asked the dalai lama around for a cup of tea when he was in New Zealand, alas, he couldn’t make it…. “Although you may have experienced many negative events in the past, with the development of patience and tolerance it is possible to let go of your sense of anger and…