Well its been a fairly weak few days for NZ sport, we are now down 3-0 in
the ODI series against Australia. Only pride left to play for now. But at
least the Hurricanes held out against some fairly crap ref decisions to win
agains the Queensland reds. Lets hope they can keep it up for next week.
Quote of the game
Referee: I want to see positive play from your guys.
Tana Umaga: How about some positive refereeing then.
Author: ranginui
TelstraClear break the internet.
Yay for telstraclear, they turned off peering in wellington at 11am today.
Busting big chunks of the network in wellington and slowing all the rest down.
As far as I know this is so they can extort money out of all the local
content providers and isp’s to buy connectivity off of them.
Lots to do.
Its super busy here at the moment, tons to do at work. Lots of non work
related stuff to do as well. Im way behind on sending back my flat stanley
and flat stacey to the US. Ill get on to that this week, can’t keep the kids
waiting.
If you have stuff you want me to do … you’ll go into a priority queue ..
just a warning 🙂
Complete and utter bigoted arsehat
From the NZ Herald (a bastion of bigotedness in itself).
‘Foodtown’s efforts to help the “give it a go” Maori language effort has
lost it an Auckland customer who says he was offended by a lesson on the
store’s public address system. ‘
Maybe his ancestors should have thought of that before they came to NZ and
stole a big chunk of land to live on. Cracker!!
Well it wasnt quite the result we wanted.
But for the most part it was a fun day out. Yes, thats right I’m talking
about the cricket. Having a few drinks with some of the team afterwards was
fun too, a big thank you to the Backbencher and Lion Brown.
World of Warcraft
So I play this usually for an hour or 2 each weeknight, and a bit more in
the weekend. If you ever want to find me on it, I play on the Windrunner
server with a character called Amaegwynn, and on Malygos with one called
Ranginui. Well most of the time anyway, so If you have World of Warcraft say
hi next time you are on one of those servers.
Skype
Laurel bought a microphone to record some stuff for her art. So I finally
decided to try skype out, after being told by lots of people that it was
really cool. And the conclusion … it is really cool. Ive only made a
couple of calls with it, but it worked a treat both times, commendably clear
and commendably simple, its going to be getting more use.
Gmail invites
Does anyone want a gmail invite? I have a pile to handout, drop me a mail if
you want one.
Wine swilling crotch scratcher
This is a delayed arsehat award. But it goes to the man who was sitting next
to me on the flight from Sydney back to Wellington. All he did the whole
flight was scull sauvignon blanc and scratch his crotch. It completely put
me off my dinner, and those of you who know me will know this is no mean
feat.
Back from Oz
Well back to the only slightly cooler Wellington, with a lightly sunburnt
neck. Sydney was fun, but I’m glad to be back home again with Laurel and the
pets.
Kōrerorero 