Archives for May 2006

A good question

From Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development Blog, this post, The Power of Now: How do you feel about your life right this moment? Are you gushingly positive and overflowing with passion?

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Recently, for the first time in a very long while, I had the urge to do some dead-tree reading. I wanted quality writing, space sci-fi, strong female lead character. I haven’t really read any sci-fi for years, apart from some Babylon 5 and Voyager novels, based around the TV series. Some of them have been […]

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Wellington cat photos

If you’re in Wellington, perhaps you have the opportunity to offer a home to one or more cats? Keep an eye on the Cats Protection League Flickr photostream. How can you resist? If we didn’t already have three cats and an elderly dog I’d be 0wn3d by now.

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Keeping mum in the village

British villages seem to be rather scary places: Miss Marple never seemed to be short of a murder to solve, and as for Midsomer, well it’s a wonder there’s anyone left around there, given the serial killings that take place every week. Last night we went to see the excellent British movie Keeping Mum, with […]

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Pitch and toss in Cook Strait

I was just taking a few minutes break from work and used my high-power binoculars to take a look towards the south. I was just in time to see a Strait Shipping vessel labouring past Island Bay. It was expending most of its energy in severe pitching and tossing in today’s rough weather; forwards motion […]

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Wellington bus drivers work miracles

The other day I had to take my car in to get a seatbelt repaired. Since I live at the top of a rather steep hill I caught the bus home. There are two ways to get a bus to our place: one route comes to the top of the hill, from where it’s a […]

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TV ad removed as offensive and malicious

Most TV ads are just a nuisance, with some being annoying or awful, for one reason or another and a very few being enjoyable and entertaining. Last month though I saw one that I found simply shocking, nasty and offensive: a couple getting ready for work in the morning were attempting to kill one another. […]

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Wellington skate shops

So, having been working really hard, and with getting back into enjoying skating, and seeing all those (mainly) boys having fun down at Waitangi Skate Park I conjured a brilliant idea: I’d like to try skateboarding. Last week I saw one young chap and another slightly older lad whose skates seemed to be simply extensions […]

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Skating forward

After being almost too busy to think for the last couple of months I’ve struck a brief lull. The WordPress 2 : Visual QuickStart Guide book is progressing well, but I have to wait for others to send me material before I can do much more. Webstock is almost upon us, but again, things are […]

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