Archive for August, 2006
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
I just got back from a week in the US for Foo Camp, where I had a great time shopping two ideas around: New Zealand can be a hub of innovation, and Kids aren't being turned onto science and technology as careers Re: the ...
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
Before I left for my last trip to the US, I went to a school board meeting where a program called Super Kids was discussed. It's a kids Christian program that wanted to use the House Of Learning (aka "library") at our local primary school after school hours. ...
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Great news! The house in Colorado is under contract, they inspect tomorrow morning, and then hopefully it's smooth sailing to closure. This is it: if it falls through, I'm renting it out. But if it sells (even if for much less than we were hoping to get) it's ...
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Great news! The house in Colorado is under contract, they inspect tomorrow morning, and then hopefully it's smooth sailing to closure. This is it: if it falls through, I'm renting it out. But if it sells (even if for much less than we were hoping to get) ...
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Back in New Zealand after nearly three months away. What a lot of culture shock there was, both in leaving and returning. Leaving: it's so easy to return to the US, yet so hard. The traffic was incredible: it takes as long for us to get from ...
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