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Out to Red Rocks

Out to Red Rocks

Last weekend we made an impromptu mission out to Red Rocks in Wellington. Red Rocks is where the male seals have their haul-out in preparation for the mating season (or at least that’s what the signs said). We caught the bus out to Island Bay and started our...
Snowboarding at Ruapehu

Snowboarding at Ruapehu

This past weekend I went snowboarding at Ruapehu for the first time. I left Friday afternoon with my friend Ben on the train to Palmerston North. The train was nothing special except for the small stretch along the Kapati Coast; the seats were comfortable though. We...

iPhone OS 3.0

It took a little while but I managed to get the iPhone 3.0 update. Severe server load for activating the update was causing the problem for me but later in the day it was all sweet. I actually find that there are few features that I’m actually using. The chance...
Good win by the Penguins

Good win by the Penguins

I went down to 4 Kings to watch game seven of the Stanley Cup final. We picked up one of the booths and got them to crank the sound. It was very exciting game but I was sure biting my nails through the third. Detroit managed to bring it within one in the third but...
Apple TV + Ubuntu = Fail!

Apple TV + Ubuntu = Fail!

Some of you may know that I hacked my Apple TV to run Ubuntu 9.04 on it to turn it into a media centre. I sorted out the driver issues, got the network speeds up, got digital surround sound to work, but it all wasn’t enough. The computer started to get bogged down...

Quiz Night

Tonight I went to a quiz night down at Molly Malone’s. We entered as the Purple Perverts again, I’m not sure where the name came from but I’m sure Laura had a lot to do with it. For the second week in a row we won 1st place and a $100 bar tab for...