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We Would Worry Less About What People Think About Us If ...
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My early life was one of absolute joy, safety, and happiness. There was quite the blip when my father left us, however even that worked out ...
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What we tiny insignificant creatures can stare into when we send out wee machines off this planet is mind boggling. Euclid “Dark Universe” T...
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This is the second, and last time, that my trawl across the ages through my daily photo has me in the same year that we are all actually in...
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NZ National Geographic Needs Your Help
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If I had more disposable money I would ... and I am bloody gonna in the new year when I will actually have a little more of the $ .. fuck it...
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Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine
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I can't recall the time I was able to add a signature to an email, don't think it was back in the very early Demon days in the mid-1990s, a...
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Stare at this for around 20 seconds and you should see a giraffe
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It's very clever, give it a go - stare for around 20 seconds and you should see a giraffe! And all thanks to should be directed to Ciaran at...
on Sun, 6AM
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MiramarMike new logo in all it's Web 2.0 glory
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Fine isn't it - generated using Web2.0 Logo Creator * * This is the working version of the original but don't bother, the original is broke
on Sun, 1AM
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TradeMe RSS feed of auctions by user - created using Yahoo! Pipes
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+ = [Updated] Stuart has extended my Pipe to include a full RSS [description] field. The feed is: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe....
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And I mean that in a purely scientific way and not as a personal opinion of the "food item". Reading the paper ( The Press ) this morning I ...
on Nov 9
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Icons for understanding Eastern and Western cultures
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Icons For Understanding Eastern and Western Cultures - PART ONE with parts II and III available. Thanks to the ever connected Russell Bro...
on Nov 8
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Security Escalation Levels Around The World
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This is pure gold from Adam's JokesList email ------------------- The British are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats ...
on Nov 8
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Breathing Space Website Live In About 37 Minutes
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As you know my wife, Liz, and her business partner Helen have started a new business called Breathing Space ("a new initiative for the pro...
on Nov 8
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Do I have this correct? The "Living Next Door to Alice" was originally released in 1972 but it's the Smokie 1976 version we all know. Howe...
on Nov 6
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Life online: Changed to a far easier "ToDo" list - RememberTheMilk.com
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Despite the quirky name (or perhaps because) the Remember The Milk is an excellent site that allows me to quickly add list of things to do,...
on Nov 5
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Fuck! Google buys another of my 'life online' services
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I started with the following independent and quite fabulous online services to help me live my electronic life online. Somewhere to stick al...
on Nov 5
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Men have two types of toilet they can use, inside and outside, no no I joke, it's stand-up and sit-down. Stand-up toilets ("urinal", what a...
on Nov 4
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It's Not Easy To Take A Stand Which Is Why I Admire Ben's Action
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Being away on a wee family holiday has meant I've missed the furore around Paul Henry's dickhead comments on the TVNZ breakfast show this m...
on Nov 2
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Happy 1st Birthday To Hashigo Zake - FREE Celebratory Drink
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I am filled with admiration for Dominic and how he has, in a relatively short time, created Hashigo Zake , a wonderful bar filled with amazi...
on Nov 2
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As you may know I get up every Wednesday morning before the birds to attend the Chartered Chatterers Toastmasters club where fun and coffee...
on Nov 2
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Golliwogs - They're OK, Apparently
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Note: Whilst this post was drafted well before the Golliwog-laden BBC/Carol Thatcher scandal I am, of course, very happy about the timing :...
on Nov 2
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How to keep on top of the awesome Wellington geek calendar AND does Auckland have this problem?
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Wellington is such a kick-ass wee city in many ways, none more so than the creative juices that flow through a small (by West Coast USA stan...
on Nov 1
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2nd Annual Wellingtonists Awards - all 20 categories
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Voting opens Monday - I'll let you know where and how as soon as the doors open. And reserve the Awards Gala night ( Thursday, 16th Decembe...
on Nov 1
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Most people can locate where they are in their body, tap your forehead / brow just where there's a dip and about 2cms inside is where you ar...
on Nov 1
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No, I'm not stopping the blog ... yet, that day will come. As I sit here at the very beginning of one life (10 months+) and enjoy the first ...
on Oct 30
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Stephen Fry mentioned it many years ago as a means of not only deflating Donald Trump but everyone like him, the self important that surviv...
on Oct 29
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A friend of mine recently related how she was so over men sending her weird, annoying, and sometimes creepy messages via LinkedIn. I know, b...
on Oct 29
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Break The Chains And Be Your Own Person With RSS
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We link to think that information ("content") on the Web comes at us from every angle and at speeds to our poor brains just can't take, stoo...
on Oct 25
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The Number ONE Thing To Say When You Hear Sirens Go Past
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Anyone who knows me will have already guessed what Eric is about to say ...
on Oct 25
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Amazon Is The Worst Company Since Oil
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Enter Amazon and you have exited capitalism. Despite all the buying and the selling that goes on there, you have entered a realm that can’t ...
on Oct 23
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Social networking sites I use [Updated]
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[Updated] I no longer keep this list up to date as I now use my Google Profile If you want Mike in a work/professional manner check out his...
on Oct 22
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The Friday Firesmith story from mid-July 2021 ends: I had a copy of this photo, emailed it to everyone in the photo I could find, but lost ...
on Oct 21
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So, it's been 3 or so weeks, was it worth the NZ$1,142 + $40/month I spent on it? Yes. But not 100% yes, here's the "not so good things" fir...
on Oct 20
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Is Child Boxing Really That Bad?
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Yes, I s'pose it is a bit weird, in fact you're right, it's bloody strange eh! Ok, so child boxing is off the table, but what about balloon ...
on Oct 20
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30 Days of Me - OK, I'm Up For It
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Noticed a few of the local Twitter gals using #30DaysOfMe and finally got round to clicking on @smrtgirl's tweet and read what it's all abo...
on Oct 19
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Save The Cinema, With Dinosaurs
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A summary of the story from, New Movie Tells Story of Steven Spielberg ‘Jurassic Park’ Premiere… in Wales : In the 1980s, Carmarthen’s Lyric...
on Oct 19
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JonnyB - first drunk and now bodily functions
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First there was " getting home drunk but being not-drunk " and now he has nailed " talking about bodily functions " ... my wife IS LTLTP ......
on Oct 18
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Google may not be quite as good as it used to be
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Despite what you may have read recently about the changes with Google's PageRank ratings this is not the reason that the service we know a...
on Oct 18
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"The best thing since sliced bread." - but when was 'sliced bread'? On Saturday July 7th, 1928 , the Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicot...
on Oct 18
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Those Audio Summaries, Are they AI Generated?
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Yes. Mike's Audio Summaries , is a YouTube podcast experiment. I've published three at time of writing this and they have caused much amusem...
on Oct 17
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What a find! So, you like Sherlock Holmes stories, you're particularly in with the BBC Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman), ...
on Oct 17
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How Long Could Aotearoa New Zealand Survive Being Cut Off?
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A drunken and wrong argument from me with a patient and honest mate left me thinking, "How long could Aotearoa New Zealand actually last if ...
on Oct 17
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No8.co.nz - WTF You Numbskulls
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So, I see an ad on TV with a bunch of rugby-types advertising http://no8.co.nz and I think, "Hmm, that's right it's World Cup year next yea...
on Oct 17
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I've seen Billy Connolly a few times, first time was in 1985, and as we all know he is astounding. Especially when you know that he got abs...
on Oct 10
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I think most people are at the, "Oops", stage. However, there's a vocal minority at the, "OK, climate change is real, we're just not convinc...
on Oct 10
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Daniel Dennett spent decades puzzling over the existence of minds and he seems like a man after my own heart but definitely one whose brain...
on Oct 9
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I think the Web has gone like this: Static - Dynamic - Personal - Connected - Interactive - App - ...? It all started with the static web, ...
on Oct 7
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Two of my favourite songs ever are insults to someone, Resurrection by Stone Roses, and Fuck You by Lily Allen. Here's my top 10 insults f...
on Oct 7
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33,000 BBC Sound Effects To Download
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The BBC , as an institution, is quite the amazing thing. I understand that people in the UK who pay for it aren't quite so in love as they w...
on Oct 6