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If you wanna go and take a ride wid me ...

I noticed that Annette was wearing a small band-aid style medical strip on one cheek today, and so I asked her what it was for. She told me that she had scratched herself. Then, after a pause, she said that also “City Spud” was in lock down. Unexpected Nelly references

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Series of Tubes

So, today I migrated my personal network stuff (and colocation for various geek friends) from ICONZ to my current employer, who’re kindly allowing me to snag a half-rack or so of totally unmanaged, no SLA at all, you’re-on-your-own colocation space for a mates-rates price. So, shut down the

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Peanut Butter is dead to me now.

I just had a taste of a thing called “Cashew Butter” which appears to be, as the name might suggest, a spread much like Peanut Butter except made with cashews instead of peanuts. It it 100% pure awesome, in a jar. I am now planning to have sandwiches later, based

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Criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot.

I haven’t been posting much in the last week or so, basically because I’ve been busy (but very very productive) at work, and I don’t want to post boring minutiae about IP network architecture and whatnot. So I haven’t had much to say of any interest,

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This ... Is ... HEADSPAAAAT

I see that knave, that scoundrel, that villain Isaac “Thruppence more an up goes the donkey” Freeman has stooped to the very lowest levels in his continued claims on the Head Spat. If the desperate gibbering of my esteemed compatriot were made corporeal as actual Head Spats, they would be

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Mouse Deux

While visiting Annette’s family in Christchurch last weekend, we spent some time with Annette’s young nieces. During this visit, we helped a couple of the girls colour in some pictures of Mickey Mouse. I helped Maisie colour her picture, while Annette helped Stella colour hers. Here’s Annette’

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Headspat Mendicants

It has come to my attention that my esteemed colleague and dear friend Mr. Isaac “Gordon” Freeman is asserting that he is the creator, arbiter and herald of Head Spats. I would like you to know, gentle readers, that it is I who am the source of the name Head

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Heavy Duty

Dear John Russell Today, Dainty Consolidated Entertainment announced that world heavyweight metal band Judas Priest, will not be playing in New Zealand on 7 September 2008 as originally planned. The cancellation of the New Zealand date is due to logistic and freight issues and Dainty Consolidated Entertainment and Judas Priest

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Massive. MASSIVE.

I enjoy reading news articles where I can sense that the author was amusing themselves as they wrote it. Usually the turn of a particular phrase is key to making this work. Apropos: The following excellent example of Smiling While Writing: Mr Peters says he will explain in Parliament today

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Wait .. what?

I was getting all geared up for an early start tomorrow morning, had my alarm set and checked, pondering what time to get to bed in order to be functional at 0400 … then I realised that it is tuesday and my change is scheduled for thursday morning. I spent the

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My My My My Mitchell....

While discussing filmmaking projects today, I jokingly proposed that a good name for a cheesy made-for-TV mystery movie[1] would be “Addicted .. TO MURDER!” I’ve just been told that this absurd title has actually been used for a movie already. A real one. That really exists. And not just

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I am not a number! No, wait, I am! An official number!

Drivers License: Restored! Unperson status: Revoked! My birth certificate arrived, and was acceptable ID for the licensing place. Awesome! I also went to the optometrist for a checkup and certificate for driving which was fun, especially the bit where they stick fluorescent yellow shit in your eyes then look at

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Better run for COVER!

So now I have a ticket to the non-seated horn-throwin’ area of the Vector Arena, all the better to experience the FULL METALNESS of JUDAS PRIEST! Breakin’ the law! Breakin’ the law! I wonder who else will be attending?

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'sup fool? Identify this shit, yo.

Annette has never played any of the Diablo games[1] so every time we’re on the Northern motorway and we pass the Tristram off-ramp, my frequent “Stay a while! And listen!” comments are met with a blank look. Or a pitying look, the kind you would give a kitten

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Jim Beams are gonna blind me!

So Annette and I are watching a documentary on the topic of Abba, the famously jumpsuit-clad Swedish supergroup. They’re getting various celebrities to rank Abba’s top 20 songs. Super Trouper is listed at number 16, and I’m thinking “Huh, only 16? Thought that one would be in

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Ooh! Me! Me! I'll watch the watchmen! Pick me!

The trailer for the new Watchmen movie looks .. pretty good. I like the visual work of the characters, anyway – and the clockwork palace on Mars[1] also looks excellent. I won’t get my hopes up high, however, because the trailer for The Phantom Menace also looked good. In fact,

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The Gyre is damn well Widening.

Last night, on the way home, I was stopped for speeding on the motorway. “But officer!” I said, “I am SURE I was only going 95 or so!”. Turns out that the section of motorway I was on has, unbeknownst to me but definitely fucking beknownst to the rozzers, a

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..what a man's gotta do.

Anyone who hasn’t seen Joss Whedon’s Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog should pretty much run, don’t walk, over there now and check it out. It has musical numbers and ray guns that freeze time. You can’t ask for more than that.

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I'm not really frowning ALL the time.

Annette and I were at the Elliot Street Stables, which is a sort of boutique mall with many little shops full of oh, just FABULOUS things, you know. We were there to purchase leaves at the awesome little tea shop. Anyway, in their little central dining area they have live

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Cell'f PWND

Dammit. I may have to reverse my position on the iPhone. My previous statements about it’s weird lack of some functionality still stand, and are still valid, however I’ve now had a look through the apps available from the app store, and the cool ones come together to

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More like iPWN, amirite?

I will probably not be buying an iPhone 3G. For starters, in NZ the new Vodafone plans launched for the iPhone are laughably terrible. It’s a given that no-one is buying an iPhone and not anticipating using it for web browsing and whatnot, so you’d expect that iPhone-specific

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Who dis?

People who I only really know through various online services and who send me friend requests on Facebook should probably include a message with their nicknames, because I do tend to keep my friends list pared down to just my actual friends. So I end up saying stuff like: “A

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Look! Up in the sky!

Okay, so. Superbishops. Special, super, bishops. That only guys can be. Because obviously they’re needed, now that women can be regular bishops. Oh course, when women get to be Superbishops, I guess they’ll have to make Ultrabishops, or Hyperbishops or OMEGA BISHOPS. Can’t really have women being

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TO ME, MY INTERNETS!

The GODDAMN Internet! I HAS IT! I guess Telecom fixed our DSL at the exchange today, because we have connectivity again, and no tech has come out here. Honestly, it’s like stepping free into the sunlight after a long and injust imprisonment.

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Toot Toot! Get on board!

Late last thursday morning, my home DSL connection failed. When I got home, I logged into the router and saw no login, no line protocol, and no carrier signal. But we still had a dial tone. So as a final test, I unplugged our filter and plugged the phone directly