3 comments November 29th, 2005
Qantas and Air New Zealand, two 'local' airlines, have introduced a new 'no men near children' policy. If any unaccompanied child is seated next to a man, the man is forced to move seats.
1) Why shouldn't the child be forced to move seats? Hell, the man was there first! Why can't they seat the child somewhere else?
5 comments November 29th, 2005
Today was my birthday. 29th November. I'm 39 now… Yuk.
What WASN'T yuk was the day. I had the best birth day of my life! You're probably wondering how. It's so good that I'm going to tell you. *grin*
1) I had the day off today so I took Deidre into work this morning at around 8am. Her car was in for repairs, so that's why I drove her into work. I also drove her into work so that I could go to Starbucks.
2 comments November 29th, 2005
I've started to make use of Flickr for displaying bunches of photos. I've created a 'Best of' album on there, which is the best of the photos since early 2003. I've also found a way of embedding a slideshow of that album in here. Please enjoy.
[UPDATE: Unfortunately, the slideshow didn't work as well as I wanted in here. It screwed up the right-hand column in IE. So please go to the following link to enjoy the slideshow, thanks.]
8 comments November 28th, 2005
Last week, Friday, I went for the interview for the team leader role. I wasn't too sure about it after I had the interview, as I was left with a bit of a sore throat from all the talking I did, the lack of water I drank, and the inate nervousness that goes with job interviews. I didn't have a good feeling in my stomach, thinking that they might have thought I wasn't up to the requirements they were looking for.
I'm still not sure if they think I am, but at least I've got short-shortlisted to the next step, a second interview, so that's a very good sign. Woohoo!
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According to you, the reader, politics is one of your favourite topics in this blog. Since you comment on political and news posts in here, but you don't (or rarely) comment in my Eyes On The World blog, and since I said I was going to do more posts in here on what you seem to like, I'm cancelling Eyes On The World. Again. But at least I'm not stopping the political commentary. Instead, I'll continue with it in this blog, keeping 'life through my eyes' focused in here, rather than spread across a couple of blogs.
If you don't like reading politics, just ignore those posts. You know the drill. 
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Back in the beginning of this year, I wrote a timeline to provide a 'history of the future', to be used for a roleplaying game I created that was set in 2030, a combination of the Werewolf and Cyberpunk genres. I created this history based a little bit on how I saw current events developing, and also some of the 'historical facts' that were provided by John Titor, an alleged time traveller. Bringing it all together, and using established Cyberpunk themes (eg. cybernetic developments and early space flight, etc), I created my own history. Interestingly, I had Russia and China supporting Iran in 2006. They beat my 'prediction' by a year.
Add comment November 27th, 2005
There's always going to be a time when you need a gift idea, and a beautiful picture is often the perfect choice when you're just not sure of what to get. If you would like to purchase any of the photos featured on this blog, contact me to organise it. The pricing is:
15 x 10cm (6 x 4 inch): $12 (US$8)
18 x 13cm (7 x 5 inch): $20 (US$15)
25 x 20cm (10 x 8 inch): $28 (US$20)
30 x 20cm (12 x 8 inch): $40 (US$30)
6 comments November 27th, 2005
I went with Deidre and Rani, a friend of ours, to a place called Castlepoint, which is about a 2 hour drive northeast of Wellington. Today was a great day for photos…
We went to Martinborough first. This was a view over the valley…
Then we had brunch in a cafe, and I had to take this photo of an old piano that was there…
This is the Martinborough Hotel…
After leaving Martinborough we headed to Castlepoint. I saw a winery along the way and got this photo…
Finally, we arrived at Castlepoint! There was a surf up…
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I've been at Starbucks this afternoon, doing some writing, playing around, watching people… A guy sat opposite me on these comfy chairs, who I've seen a few times over the past few weeks when I've come here. We got to talking, turns out he's into IT as well, from Canada, travelling around. We shared some interests in news so I emailed him my Eyes On The World site, and so he emailed me his blog. Funny thing is, he's into growth as well, and is adventuring around for a while, taking a bit of a break from work.
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