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Martin Does London

Ah Martin, how cool you are blogging your OE. Great to hear tales of London. Reminds me of being ten and touring the tube, when you could. Happy Travels!

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movies

the Sixth Sense

Scene One: You Watch the Movie for the First Time Initially, you are glad that nobody has spoiled this movie, tho you know there’s a twist. The Movie plays like a nice relationship drama. People, close but isolated find connection with each other. It’s a ghost movie, and the connections people find with them facilitate […]

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Hinewai

A restul and enjoyable Queen’s Birthday weeekend at the fantastatic Hinewai Reserve. Jane, Dan, Elsie, Anja, Ed and Aaron stayed in the Otanerito Homestead. It’s comfortable, well set up and huge. The Reserve is magnificent with native bush regenerating up through gorse that it then strangles. Got to have one good walk – to Whakamate […]

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City of God

If you really want to… skinny children with guns in their shorts waistbands or being emptied into each other or themselves over scraps in destitute favelas. The shock of appalling violence slashing across ordinary lives.

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geekery

Cool Bloggings

Welcome to the Blog World, Richard.

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geekery

Email Free Days

Datamail has declared an “Email Free Day” in an attempt to reduce information overload? To me, that is like declaring a “Traffic Free Day” to reduce congestion on the roads. That would certainly eliminate gridlock but at what cost? Don’t people actually use cars to get to places where they can relate with each other […]

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geekery

archived life

Microsoft’s My Life Bits project speculates that a terabyte (costing about $1000 today) of storage is enough to store every conversation you’ve ever had. They’ve prototyped a SenseCam that hangs around your neck and snaps everything every minute.

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Elsie is Eleven

Jane draped the place in pink and white streamers and cooked lovely indian for friday nite i like being a foursome to share celebration and jane has talents that i lack for creating occasion after hockey, we shopped Elsie up an outfit and spent the same on pants for Ed then we had Stephanie, Emma […]

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lizzy maguire

can’t rate it cos didn’t watch it but elsie did twice

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waiting for guffman

** liked Best in Show but don’t know if i’ll keep going with Christopher Guest folks panned mighty wind (tho i enjoyed the rendition of ‘start me up’ from it) perhaps i was tired of mockumentary (fictional or otherwise) after the likeable Spellbound but i didn’t find the unkind caricatures of ordinary people very amusing […]