Voyage to Te Wai Pounamu, available in all good bookstores.
Yep, it took a little longer than expected, but after one long slog of 14 days, I got the book together and had it published. Look it up on amazon, where you’ll pay €43.90 for 128 action filled pages, 90 of which have coloured photos (more than 170 coloured images in total, with another 25 or so in black and white).
And that’s it folks, until the next adventure begins! Continue reading
Time to whinge again. This time I’ll deal with the only two other plugins I decided to use with this installation of WordPress and how they fared. Continue reading
I have tried, and I have given up.
The idea of extending the functionality of WordPress via plugins is good in principle.
But… Continue reading
I mentioned the flies, but there is much, much more than could be said about the downside. The balance of the last year or so of working with WP:
Show a programmer some of the WordPress code as a deterrent. They should swear off further coding with immediate effect. Just take a look at this nonsense, replete with single spaces to position the lines (not heard of the tab key?) and those endearing, but useless, trailing space-slashes at the end of the tags: Continue reading
WordPress boasts that it “powers” “10%” of the web, but far more awesome is that it attracts 98% of the flies. I went into this business hoping to share a few impressions, tracks and photos from my journey and all I get stuck with is the blowies. Time to reflect on blogging and what it’s worth. Continue reading
Was up fairly early to get some breakfast and get my stuff packed up. For some reason PPP had packed in during the night, so the whole directory wasn’t completely developed. Waited around a bit for Ben, but only Lucy appeared, first for a shower and then for breakfast in their bedroom. Had all of my stuff in the car and when Lucy was ready to go, I left with her. Continue reading
Caricature of Prof. James Flynn, University of Otago, Dunedin
Was up fairly early and had the rest of my crumpets with vegemite for breakfast. Ben & Lucy were still getting up when I left for Flynn’s office. I had judged the distance and time pretty closely and only had to enquire at the Psychology Department where his building was and was there on the way to finding his office when I bumped into him.
He had forgotten his wallet at a petrol station and left me in his office while he retrieved it. A few piles of paper on the floor suggested he was doing his tax return and in the meantime I checked that my equipment was working and ready to go. Continue reading
Was ready to go just after 9:00 but first had to fill in a census form. Then it was pretty much directly out to Te Anau, with a stop for petrol in Frankton, and a short break along the way. Spotted the Kingston Flyer at one of the stations. Continue reading
Today was meant as a technical day, but there was certainly a lot to do. Breakfast at 8:00 was pretty empty (the hostel here provides one, at least) and I made my coffee and a bowl of cornflakes; then some toast for which I collected my vegemite.
Washing could only be done after 12:30, so I started on transcribing the hiking diary into blog format. Rearranged the TV room to get a comfortable enough seat for typing and downloaded at least some of the outstanding podcast episodes and finished transcribing two days. Guys came in every now and then to watch something on the telly, which was really helpful. Continue reading
“My Trip” Diary 1974-1978
For a long, long time, I have kept travel diaries. The oldest one still in my possession is a dedicated travel pocket diary (9 cm x 15 cm, 90 leaf, left: cover, “My Trip”; right: excerpt) given to me by my grandmother in 1974 to record the 74/75 two-month New Zealand round tour in. Continue reading
