We’re back in NZ right now and will be here till the end of the year. It’s wonderful to be home and spend some quality time with family, see old friends and enjoy cafes and places we haven’t been in ages. We arrived into NZ on Oct 27th – nearly 3 weeks ago already and [...]
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Political Compass
Posted by matt on June 28, 2009
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This post originally appeared on Matt’s Musings (Matt’s computer focussed blog). It’s been a while since I’ve taken any sort of quiz like this, so when David Farrar from Kiwblog posted his results today it prompted me to give it another go. My Political ViewsI am a center-right moderate social libertarianRight: 1.33, Libertarian: 1.97Political Spectrum [...]
Cruising the Caribbean
Posted by kat on June 11, 2009
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Ever since we booked our cruise holiday in January I’ve been eagerly awaiting May 29th, excited to flee the grey cold weather of Dublin and cruise the Caribbean in style with our fabulous friends Kieron, Lucy, Joey and Robbie. There was so much packed into our holiday last week that I don’t know where to [...]
Easter Weekend
Posted by kat on April 14, 2009
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Happy Easter everyone! We had a fabulous easter weekend, enjoying the company of Susanna and Daniel and showing them around some of Irelands sights. It was great to see old friends again and fun to get out of Dublin and enjoy the sunny weather. Susanna and Daniel arrived early on Good Friday after a long [...]
The government listened!
Posted by matt on February 24, 2009
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This post originally appeared on Matt’s Musings (Matt’s computer focussed blog). I was very pleased to wake up this morning to the news that National has delayed the introduction of S92A via an order-in-council. It’s a nice short-term victory, but I’ll save the champagne until the law is fundamentally rewritten. The most pleasing aspect of [...]
Blacked Out – no “Guilt Upon Accusation”
Posted by matt on February 18, 2009
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This post originally appeared on Matt’s Musings (Matt’s computer focussed blog). If you’re reading this post via the website rather than a feed/planet then you will notice that the site has gone completely black in support of the Creative Freedom Foundation’s campaign against S92A of the NZ Copyright Amendment Act which is due to come [...]
Nollaig Shona Duit
Posted by kat on December 23, 2008
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Another year is nearly at an end. It’s been a good year for us (and a busy one) with plenty of highlights and very few lowlights! We’ll be enjoying a quiet Christmas day this year, making phone calls back home, eating some good food and packing for our flight on the 26th when we’re off [...]
Photos from New York and our NZ Party
Posted by matt on November 17, 2008
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I got back from San Francisco (or Mountain View just below San Francisco to be precise) last Thursday afternoon, just in time to take Kat out to dinner for our fourth wedding anniversary. It was a nice welcome home after almost four weeks away. During dinner we were discussing that in June next year it [...]
A bit older
Posted by matt on October 16, 2008
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I had a great Birthday yesterday. It started with a phone call from New Zealand in the morning from Mum, Dad, Chris, Rachel, Andrew and Sarah, perfectly timed so that it didn’t get me out of bed and arrived just as I was about to leave the house for work. In the evening we had [...]
Panic!… crisis averted
Posted by kat on September 12, 2008
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Phew, we had an eleventh hour crisis tonight as we began packing for Malta. With the suitcases nearly full and all in order I went to get our passports from the file in our drawer. One passport was found – mine, one passport was missing – Matt’s. We searched the drawer, we searched Matt’s desk, [...]