Building a vege box
It’s been long in the planning, but finally got around to: a vege box! We bought some timber to match the existing vege box yesterday (better not ask how we transported them back to our house…) and I started setting…
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Yearly Archive: 2011
Building a nest
Looks like our alarm squatters (i.e., the swallows that are sitting on our alarm light above the garage) are finally settling in. Not just making what birds normally do best: droppings. 😉 Nope, they started building a nest. How cute!!!
You are… what???
It’s been ages and we decided to finally go on a walk again. And why not start with a nice and easy one: Waterworks Track. Well, the first part to the old water reservoir was easy, took only 15min (45min…
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Software Freedom Day
Who would have thought… From simply asking someone here at uni regarding a room booking, I’m now helping organizing Software Freedom Day here at uni. Well, I wanted to get more involved with WLUG here anyway. 😉
And another one!
This time it hit Japan. And this time with a big one: 8.9 on the Richter scale. Far out! Tsunami waves of up to 10m are freaky… Once again I’m glad to live inland in the Waikato. Having Japanese friends…
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me – blood = not so good
We went to donate some blood today at uni (both first timers), blood being in short supply right now in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake. But somehow, losing blood doesn’t really agree with us. I lasted a bit longer,…
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This sucks…
Christchurch got hit again by a earthquake today. This time by a very shallow one, measuring 6.3. In contrast to last time, when it struck early in the morning with no one in the streets, it struck during lunch time…
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Giving Oracle the boot
I had a bad feeling when Oracle bought Sun back then in regards to MySQL. But considering how they behaved in regards to OpenOffice and their community ([1], [2]), I decided to give Oracle the boot and switch from OpenOffice…
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Creepy crawly
It’s hot outside, the window in the bedroom is open. And guess, who’s paying you a visit? Just for reference, the body length was about 8cm!!!