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Del.icio.us - where to-dos go to die

In geek, internet, meta on 23 April 2008 tagged del.icio.us with 1 comment

I’ve been using Del.icio.us since April 2005, and saved 2200 pages to the site. Recording and tagging my web travels is great, stopping all those wonderful links from slipping into the digital never-never land. Firefox makes link getting really easy, with Apple or Ctrl - click I get a good eight or ten tabs [...]

Lad’s weekend

In meta, new zealand, photo on 8 April 2008 tagged coromandel, Mexican with no comments

Last weekend, 6 old friends drove to a remote Coromandel bach for a weekend of hard-drinking, bullshit-talking good times only possible when partners stay at home (no offence!).
It was a brilliant, save the PS2 plug non-compatibility SNAFU. The best bits were:
- The fridge:

- Unashamed, unapologetic and unmuffled farting was definitely on the menu. Mixed [...]

Cat on a hot mac keyboard

In meta, photo on 25 March 2008 tagged cat with 1 comment

Now you know who actually writes this stuff

Unplugged in Opito Bay

In geek, internet, meta, new zealand, photo on 18 March 2008 tagged rss, unplugged with 1 comment

I went off the grid for a few days with my girl. As I left the office on Friday, I wrestled with my conscience - does the laptop come or stay? With my T3G card, I get reasonable  connection pretty much anywhere - but that’s not really a holiday is it? It wound up staying.
So, [...]

It lives!

In meta on 5 November 2007 with no comments

Aaaaand… I’m back. Since January, I’ve been mostly blogging at sportreviewnz.sportreviewnz started with links to sports stories I found interesting, and reviewing my old sports books. Then I started doing my sporting ‘cartoons’ (I always put that in quotes. It doesn’t seem right to include my farking around with photoshop, powerpoint and swearing in [...]

That’s about it…

In meta on 14 December 2006 with no comments

This blog is OVER. When I started off this blogging lark I wanted to keep my sporting and ‘other’ interests seperate. I can’t be arsed doing that anymore, and have decided to have one blog for everything - sport / review nz. So get in there, quick smart.Thanks for reading Chartered Trips.