Muslim Politician: “Certainly what the Koran says is correct”
July 6th, 2005 by Sarah KingIt’s never easy bringing a new religion into a secular society based upon an opposing religion.
Despite our limited religious activity here the Christian faith underpins society and if push came to shove we’d be picking their churches as the basis of our beliefs.
So Ashraf Choudhary must feel continually under fire as a Muslim politician. Read the rest of this entry »
Great Kiwi Blogs
July 5th, 2005 by Sarah KingKiwis (aka New Zealander’s) are much more into blogging than I’d ever imagined. I decided to load my fave kiwi blogs into a test Mambo site I have so I could catch up on them when I’m out and about and went quite mad. Take a look through if you’re interested…
Trademe hype or cybersquatting?
July 4th, 2005 by Sarah KingTrademe is our local equivalent of eBay. There are a few pretenders but Trademe has the profile. It was one of the dotcoms started up by school kids, supported by their parents, that actually flew (Maxnet being another).
So I was amused to find that a Jeremy Matthews had purchased a mispelt domain tardme.co.nz and put up a mischievous front page. Read the rest of this entry »
World Wind Hotspots
July 1st, 2005 by Sarah KingI have no idea what this site is but it helped me find the latitude and longitude of Auckland so I could get listed at geourl.org…
RSS Feeds as Relationship builders
July 1st, 2005 by Sarah KingI found this quote from Metacentric today
“Many people visit your Web site once and never return. Like a holiday romance, it’s nice while it lasts but a poor return on your Internet investment. RSS news feeds stretch your Web site out over time and help build a long term relationship with the people that use your site.”
and it started me thinking that there are two types of bloggers Read the rest of this entry »
Sudoku
July 1st, 2005 by Sarah KingSudoku is an insidious little game Read the rest of this entry »
Canadian Visitors
July 1st, 2005 by Sarah KingAs I drove over the harbour bridge this morning there was no wind so the two flags lay limply against their flagpoles. One I could see was red so I guessed it was for the Lions rugby team, on tour in NZ currently.
A gust of wind caught the red flag and for a second the flag was fully unfurled and it was the Canadian flag.
Now, the flags of other countries are used when there are dignitaries visiting or some major event. I searched the local media and the only Canadian news I could find was Canadian Parliament approves same sex marriage. Can’t be that, surely?
