Hurricanes 22 – Blues 10 As you can see from the picture we had great seats to see 2 of the Hurricanes 3 tries and a nice sweeping view of the third. Plus with the Blues hot on attack for the first 20 minutes we had the ball down our end then too. Fitting result…

Off to Eden Park tomorrow night with my two older boys to watch the Hurricanes take on the Blues. You would have to think that with the Blues injury problems and the Hurricanes form last week [image here] that it should be an good night to be a Hurricanes supporter. But we’ve never beaten the…

Heard about the “Every Child Counts” lobby and awareness group the other day on the radio. They are made up of various organizations and individuals that seek to raise the awareness of issues relating to children in the run up to the general election and to influence the policies of the political parties. On www.everychildcounts.org.nz…

We play lots of board and card games. Some of our favourites include Carcassonne (+variants), Settlers of Catan (again +variants) and Tigris and Euphrates. But nothing we play is on this scale – it has to be the largest game of Carcassone I’ve ever seen. Scoring the farms must be a pig (pun intended). See…

The last week. Lecturing on technoculture and the gospel last Monday

Standby Power Home Page has a lot of interesting and helpful information about power consumption of electronic devices (TVs, DVD players, computers etc.) left in “standby” mode. Even has a link through to some NZ information here. Standby mode is one of those real “convenience vs consumption” issues. The convenience of being able to turn…

The radio this morning referred to North Shore City, Waitakere and Rodney looking for submissions on a by-law to reduce the amount of junk mail delivered in the city. The key problem being its effect upon landfill volume. Basically it becomes illegal to put junk mail in a letter box with a “No circulars” or…

By dint of a couple of close ones going my way I’m now 8267th out of 125995 players in this year’s Virtual Super 12 after 7 rounds and ahead of all the “experts”. Just thought someone might like to know. Always had faith the Hurricanes would get there this weekend 🙂 (Not a good weekend…

Now this is scary. I can just imagine that one of the first applications will be in fast-food advertising. NZ Herald : Sony aims to beam sights and sounds directly into brain

“All in all a very successful, relaxing and peaceful few days. Now some solid work is required over the next few weeks while I’m still fresh from it.” Stomach bug decimates the entire family this week. Even those who have recovered have no energy to do anything. Must pick the most uncomfortable chair in my…