Goodbye, cruel edu

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It appears that La Trobe has finally shut down my student email account… it’s possible their server’s just bjorked at the moment, but, I suspect it’s for real this time. So, time for the final laggards to move to my newer email addresses.

New Zealand Day 2

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22nd of March, 2007[continued from previous entry] At some point I also met Marie? [[Moreen [[Maureen]]]], who’s name frustratingly escapes me all the time. She’s from just south of L.A., and at 35 is just pushing the Contiki age limits (18-35). She doesn’t look too bad for her age, though, although she’s a fairly tall… Read more

New Zealand Day 1

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21st of March, 2007[continued from previous entry] So I was a bit seedy still in the morning. I’d set my phone alarm to 8:30am, so that I’d have time to grab breakfast (7am-9am) and shower before checkout (10am). However, at about 8:50am I suddenly realised I hadn’t set my phone’s clock forward, so it was… Read more

New Zealand Day 0

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My recent [eventual] success at producing an entry for Cairns has inspired me to go back to my [paper] diary from my New Zealand Contiki trip and write a bit about it here. It’s going to take me a while, though… if nothing else, I have to try and sort the whole lot out, and… Read more

Cairns

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So, my recent trip to Australia. The flight over wasn’t too bad, all told – I was way up the back of the plane, in the middle seats, so I had nothing to look at but the seat in front. So I watched the Chaser or whatever on my phone, for a bit… watched Die… Read more

Northstar

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So, Northstar. We left Thursday night at around 5:30 or so, from work, Nils & I. After getting lost for half an hour – thanks a lot, Hamilton Avenue, #%@! – we finally got to F2’s place, and from there departed… I think we were on our way by 6:30 or so. It took forever… Read more

Northstar Photos

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The photos from the Northstar trip up are finally up, including full-size versions of the two panoramas. I finally got DoubleTake to play nice – looks like a CoreImage glitch on Tiger – as can be seen below.