The trailer is here!
The wait is over! Well, not exactly. Only for the trailer. But anyhow, looking forward to watching the first part of Peter Jackson’s adaption of Tolkien’s The Hobbit next December!
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The wait is over! Well, not exactly. Only for the trailer. But anyhow, looking forward to watching the first part of Peter Jackson’s adaption of Tolkien’s The Hobbit next December!
At least some times, the democratic process still works. When proposing to change the rating system from land value to capital value, the city council experienced a massive opposition. Why? Due to shifting the weight from businesses onto residential properties,…
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Man, that was nice surprise by my beautiful wife: going to the races! Never been to a horse race here in New Zealand in all those years. Considering that Te Rapa race course is actually located in Hamilton, quite sad……
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It is interesting to see that it doesn’t matter where in the world you live, but there always seems to be (at least) a two-class society: You — having to live within you budget, otherwise the banks kick you in…
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I’ve started a little portfolio of open source projects that I either contribute to or developed myself. Will be adding more, as time goes by. 🙂 http://open.fracpete.de/
During the week, we managed to put all the remaining boards on that make up the sides of the vegebox. Thanks to the weather forecast looking good, I bought some more wood on Saturday to continue with the next stage…
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It shouldn’t have been a surprise, but then it did surprise nonetheless: Steve Jobs has died. I mean, he’s been sick for a long time now and signing off as CEO of Apple was an indicator. But he’s been around…
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The weather was a bit dodgy on Monday night (only managed to quickly mow the lawns), so we had to postpone further work on our vege box. Despite the weather forecast predicting rain today, it turned out to be quite…
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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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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!!!