Archive for July, 2005

Cycling in Britain

July 29th, 2005 by Sarah King

My friend Deidre who’s just been staying has brought me up to date on all the happenings with my old cycling buddies from my time in the UK. #1 inspiration had to be Nicky Crowther who got me started with mountain bike racing. Read the rest of this entry »

$_GET versus $HTTP_GET_VARS

July 29th, 2005 by Sarah King

Forgetting for a second that it’s a cardinal sin to set values in $_GET, $_POST or $_REQUEST I’ve found an interesting little thing… or maybe I’m only finding it now because I don’t commit cardinal sins… Read the rest of this entry »

Nice People

July 29th, 2005 by Sarah King

All over town there are huge billboards in the prettiest pink advertising the NicePeople.co.nz website. For a techie I’m quite surprised that it’s taken me 3 weeks to check the site out (does that mean I’m not actually nice?) Read the rest of this entry »

Blatant Bribery

July 27th, 2005 by Sarah King

My daughter was having a major meltdown (tired and hungry) so I popped into our local Bakers Delight to get her a finger bun to tide her over until dinner.

I mentioned to my boy, 6, that it was “blatant bribery” and he spent the rest of the time in the shop reading the shelf signs saying “I can’t see any blatant bribery!”

PropertyTalk

July 22nd, 2005 by Sarah King

PropertyTalk.com is the new site for property investors and the big brother of PropertyTalk.co.nz.

The site is driven by Mambo with an vBulletin forum and phpAdsNew ad server.

The design was done by Dave Relly from Energise.

There were a number of technical issues but as usual, Mambo managed the bulk of the tasks with ease.

Eric, you rock

July 21st, 2005 by Sarah King

Need a break? Take a look at Eric’s new pad

Google Moon

July 21st, 2005 by Sarah King

I’ve been having a laugh over 2 pages on Google’s site:

I think it’s great that while Google are a huge, publicly listed company they still feel they can have a laugh publicly.

Google

The Soccer All Blacks

July 15th, 2005 by Sarah King

I have a friend from my time in London staying, which is really nice. She brought my son the new Chelsea Football away shirt and while he’s a soccer fiend at WSAFC he has some work to do.

Chelsea Away Strip

He’s going around telling everyone he has a “Soccer All Blacks” shirt – and you have to see his point! He does however, get confused about cities and countries and loyalty – as 6 year olds tend to.

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