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Wellington Sevens

Wellington Sevens

Last weekend I went to the Wellington Sevens tournament at Westpac Stadium. The sevens is the third tournament of the series and has sixteen teams playing over two days. This year I hired a mountie costume, I was sure that I would be the only one with that kit there....
Rotorua, Orakei Korako and Mt Tarawera

Rotorua, Orakei Korako and Mt Tarawera

Since we left Waitomo so late we got into Rotorua late in the afternoon. We stayed in a private room with en suite at a newish hostel close to the city center. While we were there Rotorua was having an outdoor dining festival on a street full of restaurants. We walked...
New Plymouth and Waitomo

New Plymouth and Waitomo

We started our vacation driving up the Kapiti Coast and around Mt Taranaki to New Plymouth. I wanted to visit New Plymouth, since it was named New Zealand’s Top City for 2008. We stayed at a B&B close to the city centre that seemed nice but had paper-thin...

Jailbreak your iPhones!

Today I jailbroke my iPhone, and I think everyone should do the same. I don’t necessarily agree with all of the reasons out there on why you should do it, but there are too many features that Apple should have implemented in the first place to go back. Some of...

Google quietly launches street view in New Zealand

Google has quietly (or publicly, but I didn’t hear) launched their street view overlay of Google Maps. This comes a few weeks after Australia’s launch of the service and was met with less fuss from privacy advocates than in other countries. Surprisingly,...

Toast Martinborough

On Sunday I went with my friends to Toast Martinborough, an annual wine festival about 2 hours north east of Wellington. It is an extremely popular event, all 10,000 tickets sold out in five minutes. We started early, meeting up in town before 8 AM at a McDonalds (the...