Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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Have returned from a pilgrimage to the sacred city of Wellington for the weekend. Time off with no kids for the two of us to visit friends and family. Stayed out at Raumati Beach with my brother and his family, went the commissioning service on Sunday of friends heading off overseas this week with Wycliffe,…
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To keep Paul happy I’m also posting the link to the Chiefs wallpaper. Official Super 12 Chiefs Site : 2005 Poster
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You can download the 2005 Hurricanes wallpaper and screensaver (Mac & PC) here .
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Spent Easter up in the lovely Bay of Islands where we went to a family wedding and just spent a bit to time unwinding. Here are a couple of panorama shots at the place we were staying – The Pukeko’s Nest. Well worth effort to get there (it’s about 30 minutes off Highway 1 near…
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Disturbing. Very disturbing. Oh well, all those Amazon affiliate/associate links on people’s blogs probably aren’t contributing to the evil empire, are they? The irony of a blog pushing gender-equity having links to Amazon products that might suggest gender stereotyped gift-wrapping. Amazon patent thinks pink | CNET News.com
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Wiki Becomes a Way of Life has been linked to over the blogosphere in the last few days. I’m happy there are other people out there like me.
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Walking in the local mall today I saw the local Trade Aid shop (Asanti) had a big sign up for Trade Aid : No Sweat sneakers. Its here! the only 100% union made sneaker in the world! Sweat shop free from Jakarta, Indonesia where it is union made instead of Nike owned. Fair Trade for…
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Today will be spent attacking the cupboards in the office at home in order to reclaim some storage space. Primarily that will involve going through the boxes of computer parts, old software that hasn’t been used in years and the nest of cables and creating a pile to get rid of to a good home.…
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For years and years we’ve been getting our milk delivered to our house by the local milkman. Just put out the appropriate plastic token and at about 5pm there’s milk in the letterbox. Tomorrow that all ends when they make their last delivery to our street. Apparently there aren’t enough of us left having home…
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Suspension of Disbelief : A Fact-Check for the Four-Color World is a group blog reality-checking comic stories. “Incredible stories in a realistic world” might be their slogan. Thus, in the spirit of educating the public and the publishers, we here have created this group blog. We’ll complain when creators get the facts wrong, and congratulate…