Moving from London in 2005, this describes life in New Plymouth and then Wellington, and places in between
It took a wee while but I got to the bottom of the problem. Still having problems with Instamapper though which I’ve virtually given up on, and Twitter Tools. It could be time to try a different Twitter app for WordPress blog updates. Any ideas?
Just a quick post to indicate I’m alive and also to test out the new ‘post from dashboard’ function on the new Wordpress 2.7. It really does look quite flash and funky. I’m still having a few issues with the API key from wordpress.com and a plug-in stubbornly won’t update. i can’t tell which one [...]
As my usual life continues, and as the seasons change and I play cricket at the weekends, the world is turned on its head again. After Mumbai, the world is on a knife edge as we wait to see what happens in one of the most unstable and strategically important regions on our planet.
As well [...]
The week has been a blur of sleep and work. I got back here to Wellington in the early hours of Sunday morning - already a week ago now. I went back to work on Monday morning and have pushed through to the end of the week, although for the early part of the week [...]
Its been a couple of weeks since I last posted. Since then, the USA has elected a new President,and the current one has become something of a lame duck. The economic situation worldwide seems likely to get worse before it gets better and the time between those two events gets longer each time I look [...]
Argh - it happened. I belong to one of the more generous frequent flyer mile redemption schemes - diamond club at bmi - which allows you to redeem your miles on one-way itineraries and also using a combination of miles and cash for all levels of fare, including business and first class. Now, those are [...]
On the flight to London now, and I only intended a slight pun, but it reflects the small opportunity to get a view of Seoul and what it might offer, care of Asiana. The quality of the transfer and the hotel I was taken to for our overnight stopover really was pretty classy for an [...]
I’ve left the mac at home. Two reasons - weight and battery life. I only have about anhour of juice left the the Powerbook battery these days and it just didn’t seem worth bringing that at the portable hard drive on this trip. Internet access in the UK will be via a ‘3′ USB stick [...]
It was a little bit of a tight connection having been about 30 minutes late into Sydney but I managed it ok as this Asiana 777 was late in from Seoul. So far so good - having just cleared Papua New Guinea we’re probably about half way there. I’m going to do my best to [...]
Now, that’s more like it. The re-fitted A320 that I’m on this morning is much flasher thanthe old one I was on to Brisbane last week. The entire leftside of the plane’s seatback entertainment system isnt working too well though - so I shifted over to the other side to watch Vincent Ward’s, ‘Rain of [...]
As far as my first international invited workshop/ lecture was concerned, I think that went pretty well. It was a little difficult to understand the exact requirements of the participants in advance due to the nature of the subject matter and the wide degree of variation in the background of the people who came along. [...]
I buzzed into work pretty early this morning to sort out a few documents, hold one meeting and type up a brief report before setting off for the Psychosocial Disaster Management Conference in Brisbane. Although Air NZ are supposed to be upgrading all the A320s and 767s that service their Trans-Tasman routings by December 2008, [...]
Its been a busy week. I’m off to Brisbane on Monday where I’m teaching and presenting at a conference on psychosocial disaster management. This week has been all about getting ready for that work, drawing up a proposal for some related work next year, and doing some work for a border management exercise in New [...]
I accept that times are unusual.
I accept that the US$700 billion bail-out bill has deflected a lot of attention, as well as the completely nonsensical pork-barrel clauses that have nothing to do with anything. Child-size quiver of arrows, anyone?
I accept that the market gyrations over the last week have been rather sobering. Anyone wanna buy [...]
I got out of the UK property market in June 2005. Probably a quite a way short of the peak price for 1 bedroom garden flats in south east London, but I wasn’t comfortable with the way the economy was going at that time, the flat needed maintenance, and I didn’t want to have to [...]
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