Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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Well, that was good. Nice to see we can play well in the rain once we woke up. See NZ Herald – Hurricanes hand out opening night Blues – 10 Feb 2006 – Sport.
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ADSL link has given up the ghost and doesn’t look like it’ll be back soon. However, I did get lots of stuff written over the past few days with it down. Divine providence?
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Time to update the desktop wallpaper in anticipation of the season. And I know it was just a pre-season game but beating the Brumbies by 40-6 on Saturday felt good. Wallpaper availble here Hurricanes – Hurricanes Wallpaper.
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David Zimmerman on why sports reporting is like witnessing. See Strangely Dim: Good News, Sports Fans.
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This morning I am awakened by children. Lots of children. Loud children. For a moment I think that the Pied Piper of Hamlym may have arrived. Then I remember the it’s my four plus three others who are staying. My brain struggles to come up with a collective noun to describe them. Possibilities include a…
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Every now and then I need some graph or grid paper. But I’m never organized enough to go an buy a pad of it. So this looks like just the trick. Cool Tool: Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs.
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Having returned from holiday with more books (see Greenflame: Back from holiday (with books)) we all went out a few days back to one of the local secondhand bookshops with a box of books to exchange. A successful trip with all 6 of us finding something amongst the volumes. To my delight I picked up…
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I see that EndNote now has a basic style for SBL which would have saved me grief a while back. Only problem I’d need to upgrade EndNote to a new version that requires a G4 as minimum. The poor old G3 iBook doesn’t make the cut even though it word processes just fine with EndNote…
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In the bad patch after lunch where it’s hard to concentrate on anything. Plus the rain is horizontal outside and the roof over the BBQ area outside my (home) office window is making disconcerting sounds as the wind rips though. Sheesh, it’s like being back in Wellington.
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Looks good – when I have time I’ll download these lectures on web technologies and education. See Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes: Grande Yellowhead Seminar. (Hat tip to Tensegrities: Stephen Downes seminar)