Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Felix von Luckner, The Sea Devil
I first heard of Count Felix von Luckner on a new year’s trip to Motutapu Island.
A visit to the library finally revealed the full story of his amazing life, and unique place in New Zealand history.
Von Luckner was a German, an international war hero, a humanitarian, a pirate, and leader of an elaborate Alcatraz-styled escape [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Auckland by michelle
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Cultural Differences
I’m a subscriber to Joel On Software. He has a knack for writing interesting posts interspersed with entertaining anecdotes on how to, and how not to, write software.
One of the points he is particularly strong on, and one which is often neglected in software development, is user interface design.
It used to be that when [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in IT, observations by michelle
Monday, August 25th, 2008
How to: Set Up a Wiki on Windows Vista
In Linux this is reasonably straight forward, consisting of two steps:
Install a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) server
Install a wiki distribution
And if you are running Ubuntu or similar, chances are you can do this in a single step with the package manager.
In Windows Vista it’s a little more complicated.
These are the steps I took to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IT by michelle
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Wainamu Walk
Waterfalls, sand dunes, a lake, a stream, native forest, and a hint of danger is all on offer on this über-rugged tramp less than an hour’s drive from Auckland.
At Dave’s suggestion we decided to make the most of a non-rainy winter Saturday and head out for a day-walk in the Waitakeres. The Waitakere Ranges seem [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Auckland, sanitization by michelle
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Beautiful Boobies
At lunchtime today I, along with thousands of other Aucklanders, was able to appreciate boobies as dozens of women made their way down Queen Street on bikes and various other modes of transport.
There were boobies of all sorts. Small ones, pert ones, droopy ones, round ones, gigantic ones, and even some made from silicon. [...]