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Commander in Chief

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Commander in Chief is a new tv show that’s come out with the US President being played by Geena Davis. That’s right, the US President is a woman.

I had the opportunity to watch the first 12 episodes of the first season over the past week. Yep, I enjoyed it enough to watch it to that length. What I learnt was fascinating.

  1. The office of the US Presidency is not an easy one. Sure, we all say we understand that, but without shows like West Wing (which I still haven’t seen a single episode of) or Commander in Chief, we have absolutely no idea how difficult being a President is. These shows give us a glimpse into that.


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Off to Sydney again

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Yep, that’s right, it’s finally reached that time, where we go back to Sydney for a few days. We’re going to a wedding. Nope, I won’t be the photographer. But I’m sure to have a few photos that I may upload while I’m over there. However, seeing as how I’m only away for 5 days instead of close to a month, I may not upload them too. We’ll just have to see.

I’m certain you’ll hear from me though.

Next week I’m probably going to be flying to Christchurch, doing another client implementation for work. It’s yet to be organised, but if it is, I’ll be going almost as soon as I get back from Australia.

I do like how things are going at work, and in my life. :-)

Podcasts and podcasting

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Just a bit of a teaser for you… I’m looking at the feasibility of doing the occasional ‘podcast’. This is an audio recording of me talking about… whatever, and putting it on here instead of writing in a blog post. It will be infrequent - if I do it at all, of course - as the priority in here will always be on my writing.

At this stage I’m looking at how I’m going to do it, what audio recording software to use, if I can edit it and insert music, where I can store the audio files (I can’t store them on here yet), and what I’m going to talk about. If you have any advice for me, please don’t be silent.


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Random photos

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This is a view of Wellington Harbour from a friend’s place, opposite where I live but all the way over on the other side of the harbour. I live in the hills, just to the left of the part you can see below.
A view of the pink clouds at sunset. This is definitely the land of the ‘long white cloud’…

Waitangi Day is a public holiday here, which is a comemoration of the signing of a treaty between the Maori locals and the British, back in 1840.. Here’s a few photos of some celebration stuff in a park in the city centre.


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