Flat tire replaced

I took the wheel of my bike – thankfully it’s the front wheel, so that took all of three seconds – and wandered down to the bike shop to have them look at it. I’m sure I must have had numerous flat tires in my life, but I can’t really remember any – aside from… Read more

Skydiving video

Now the whole world has the dubious honour of being able to watch me jump out of a plane (91.8 MiB). And Emma & Sarah too… they also were there… but mainly it’s me… all me. There’s no shame in being honest. We all know what we’re here for. Sorry about the size, but, the… Read more

Nevis bungy jump

I’ve put the video of me jumping Nevis (13.7 MiB) up, for your viewing pleasure. It’s very washed out, because it was early morning and very bright, and the camera didn’t seem to handle the high contrast very well. Sorry. :) But, watching it again, it actually reminded me how cool it was, and how… Read more

Bike fixed and broken again

Thursday before last I finally got my bike back. No fault of theirs – it was probably fixed weeks ago – I just hadn’t been able to get to the bike store during their open hours. Anyway, they’d even managed to find a hanger for the derailer, so that was fixed as well. Cool. :)… Read more

810 photos to go

I am working slowly through my New Zealand photos, believe it or not. Only 810 to go, now… sooo many. And the scenic ones sometimes take ages, because I have to spend all evening in Google Earth trying to figure out what the heck I’ve photographed. I’ve been mostly successful thus far, though, and it… Read more

You win some, you lose some

Today I did very little. Read a bit of Mac OS X Internals, which I bought earlier in the week – finally; I’d had my eye on it for a year or so – and played some games, and whatnot. I was trying to motivate myself to keep going through my New Zealand photos and… Read more