June 2008
70 posts
Still recovering from a run-in with the dental hygienist this morning. Wallet will take longer to recover.
A flu virus seems to be rather impertinently trying to use my body to propagate itself. My cells are valiantly resisting. Virus ahead so far
Trying to work offline. Don’t like it.
Feeling hopeful.
In Auckland, thunder and lightening, very very frightening (well, dramatic anyway)
Reading about how print is an important part of web publishing. http://tinyurl.com/5jgmom
Back from visiting Mum in hospital. Crikey they take their time getting things done in there. Poor Mum’s bored silly and frustrated to boot.
Favourite spammer names in my spam inbox today: Flossie Purvis, Bear Farold and Climes Valentia
Dad’s listening to Newstalk ZB. It’s spookily the same as when I left 10 years ago. Same hosts, same callers, same gripes, same ‘solutions’.
Listening to BBC world service radio online. Ecclectic range of stories this morning.
Biggest puddle serving as giant birdbath for a very happy Thrush.
It’s bucketing down in my corner of the Waikato. Great puddles abound.
tried vodem at beach house last night, got up to a whopping 47kbps at one point. six-month wait for broadband. what to try next?
It’s rather nice having a wild west-coast beach just down the road, I must say.
still no inteene connection at new home. been offline for 10 days. starting to get twitchy.
just saw a mouse in my house. what to do?
(very) early starts this week.
I heard frogs last night at my newly-moved-into cottage by the sea. Funny what you don’t notice is missing until you hear it again.
Getting ready for Fieldays
1. Make sure you’ve got all the kit you need and are subscribed to all the services you might want to use. The essentials pieces of kit you’ll want are: * laptop with full battery * charger * mobile,…
