Archive for the ‘New Zealand’ Category

H8DCAF

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I was driving over our harbour bridge the other day when a zappy little red convertible went past. I think it was an old triumph but don’t hold me to that – and H8DCAF was on his personalised number plate. Read the rest of this entry »

Westfield madness

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Westfield are an Aussie chain of stores dominating the Auckland retail scene. Today I had the misfortune to visit their St Lukes mall. Read the rest of this entry »

Slicing The Valves Off My Tubes

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I started a thread at Vorb when I had a problem with Slicing The Valves Off My Tubes on my mountain bike and little did I think it would turn into a 3 page discussion on tyres! Read the rest of this entry »

BMX Racing

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Charlie and Jeremy

A key activity this summer has been BMX Racing with the Waitakere BMX club, the kids have even got their own national raceplates – 1355 and 1356. Read the rest of this entry »

My slice of paradise

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Funny how you take a different perspective on things and even the locals say – wow, where’s that? Read the rest of this entry »

Google Maps

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What a time waster Google Maps is! Amazing photos though. Auckland and the Coromandel look quite different:

Auckland and the Coromandel, NZ Read the rest of this entry »

A little bit patriotic…

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We Kiwis aren’t known for flying the flag with vigour when we’re at home and lately there has been alot of debate about changing it. I for one stand with those supporting the current New Zealand flag. The naysayers will find support at nzflag.com.

I was cruising around looking for decent kiwi blogs tonight and found this: de-generationx.net and what I ‘specially liked was the use of our flag in the bottom right corner.

New Zealand flag

Money Island at Sorted.org.nz

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I’ve just visited Money island which is being promoted heavily on TV at the moment. I’m interested in the whole field of finance education but that’ll be another posting :)

So, I visited and it’s a kid oriented kind of game. First thing is entering your name, cool. It’s all in flash so I can’t give links to individual games. Read the rest of this entry »