Day 4: Taking It Easy
Finally we went to the beach today (Sunday). It was good to walk on Omaha again, white sand crackling underfoot. The kids could have spent all day there, and I’m sure they’ll spend many …
Day 1
The problem with flying to New Zealand from America is that if you get a well-timed flight, you don’t really have jetlag on the first day. You get this fantastic feeling of competence, because …
Day 2
I don’t know whether it’s the equinox or the move, but it feels like there’s SO MUCH TIME in the day. I wove flax with the kids, my parents arrived down the road from us …
2006 School Terms and Holidays
Straight from the Ministry of Education comes 2006 Term and Holiday Dates.
Day 0
Flight summary follows. Qantas: very good. Kids: great. Sleep: taken where it could be got. Customs failed to care about our coffee: Customs: What are you declaring? Us: Coffee. Customs: Any honey or …
Public Funding of Science a Shambles in NZ
Great guest rant on Public Address by a CRI (formerly DSIR, government scientific research org) talking about insanity of current contestable funding mechanisms. “A staggering amount of a …
Interview with Pita Sharples
I was prepared to think of the questioning of Maori rituals as more political bizarrity, until I read this eloquent explanation from Pita Sharples in Public Address. Now it makes perfect sense.
Google Maps-style Map of New Zealand
I can see my house from here.
Google Maps-style Map of New Zealand
I can see my house from here.
Options for NZ Mobile Diversity
New Zealand Herald article on the Irish mobile phone ecosystem, framed as “perhaps New Zealand could do this”. I’d be interested to know NZ’s mobile phone ownership as …