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Spacey's cat Bundle went downhill rapidly last week and we had to take her to the vet to be put to sleep.
RIP Bundle
RIP Bundle
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out and about in aotearoa
musings of a kiwi
24 September 2009 @ 04:58 pm
i just received in the mail some fridge magnets - the poetry type - only these are kiwi lingo examples - thought i might amuse people with some examples:
take a hike
guts for garters
pakaru-ed
strapped for cash
nana nap
the olds
across the ditch
ripped off
sussed out
dreaded lurgy
rough as guts
buggered
neck of the woods
flat stick
hard case
away laughing
piece of piss
boo-eye
up the creek
down the gurgler
even stevens
tiki tour
arvo
carked it
Wonder if anyone can guess what these all mean.
take a hike
guts for garters
pakaru-ed
strapped for cash
nana nap
the olds
across the ditch
ripped off
sussed out
dreaded lurgy
rough as guts
buggered
neck of the woods
flat stick
hard case
away laughing
piece of piss
boo-eye
up the creek
down the gurgler
even stevens
tiki tour
arvo
carked it
Wonder if anyone can guess what these all mean.
21 September 2009 @ 07:27 am
it's the last week of term - we're winding down and finishing off stuff ... then it's straight into a busy 2-week holiday; NZEI Annual meeting in Wellington (Sunday-Wednesday); 5 days to myself; Ulearn09 in Christchurch (Tuesday-Friday) where I'm one of the workshop presenters; 2 days to recover and then it's back to school again!!
phew
phew
22 August 2009 @ 08:14 pm
I am alive - just mainly doing reflective posting on my education blog - now proudly identified with a dot com address. I've also been playing with wikis - WikiEducator and WikiSpaces (the latter being something I've played with before but now seriously working on it.)
Linx
http://room10rbs.wikispaces.com/W6T
http://dragonsinger57.com - education blog
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Dragon
Linx
http://room10rbs.wikispaces.com/W6T
http://dragonsinger57.com - education blog
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Dragon
20 July 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Today started off ok but things went wrong ... my extenda box system went belly up which meant 3 computers out -then one of my other computers developed a fault. Oi vey!
May be lucky to get the extenda box fixed but will have to fix the other myself.
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Current Location: Inside my iTouch
06 July 2009 @ 10:35 pm
Unfortunately I didn't take a photo but the sign clearly stated "Please use other door" in very large letters.
Spacegirl and I looked at the sign and started walking towards the other door. A woman who got out of a car beside us walked towards the closest door, past the large sign (it was maybe 1m x 1.5m freestanding & partially blocking the entrance).
We watched her both of us expecting her to pause and then turn in our direction. She walked past the sign and up to the door (which didn't open) then backed up and read the sign.
I bet she doesn't read manuals either!
Spacegirl and I looked at the sign and started walking towards the other door. A woman who got out of a car beside us walked towards the closest door, past the large sign (it was maybe 1m x 1.5m freestanding & partially blocking the entrance).
We watched her both of us expecting her to pause and then turn in our direction. She walked past the sign and up to the door (which didn't open) then backed up and read the sign.
I bet she doesn't read manuals either!
05 July 2009 @ 10:28 pm
Really! In the past two days I've watched 2 movies where the protaganist is a woman with munchausen's disease.
"The Night Listener" & "Glass House - The Good Mother"
Not up to "Independence Day" right now - will watch that tomorrow even if it's 2 days late (seems to have become family tradition to watch it in July 4th)
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Current Location: Inside my iTouch
28 June 2009 @ 03:52 pm
today i'd had enough - time for a haircut ...
perhaps i should have been a little afraid - not when she said let me do some sculpting - but when she took out the shaving blades and removed most of the hair at the back
here are before and after shots
different light i know but ... you get the drift
perhaps i should have been a little afraid - not when she said let me do some sculpting - but when she took out the shaving blades and removed most of the hair at the back
here are before and after shots
different light i know but ... you get the drift
23 June 2009 @ 07:26 pm
way back when Nz first competed in the america's cup someone came up with this idea for a song
( videos under the cut )
( videos under the cut )
23 June 2009 @ 06:51 pm
I miss Billy T - he kept us laughing ... and he could sing too ...
Billy T's version of Sailing away
A History of NZ - Billy T's version
Billy T's version of Sailing away
A History of NZ - Billy T's version
22 June 2009 @ 05:03 pm
in NZ there's two type of Tui - the bird and the beer
i've been trying to capture pictures of an elusive tui across the road - finally successful today
i've been trying to capture pictures of an elusive tui across the road - finally successful today
21 June 2009 @ 08:09 pm
A dropbox fan I am
To grief I've come you see
My MacBook kicked the bucket an....d (kinda rhymes with am)
I was away at sea
To my dropbox I did rush
To see what I could see
And when my Macbook came afrush (rhymes with rush)
I smiled the smile of glee
You see I grinned
Fear not I've not lost
Any bit of data binned
Within my trusty dropbox
And so I can record
I recovered lots
All my data stored
Because of my dropbox
To the dropbox guys
I raise my eyes
For without your prize
I would have seen my demise
----
To those of you who have not yet discovered the joys of dropbox - click here and go discover!
To grief I've come you see
My MacBook kicked the bucket an....d (kinda rhymes with am)
I was away at sea
To my dropbox I did rush
To see what I could see
And when my Macbook came afrush (rhymes with rush)
I smiled the smile of glee
You see I grinned
Fear not I've not lost
Any bit of data binned
Within my trusty dropbox
And so I can record
I recovered lots
All my data stored
Because of my dropbox
To the dropbox guys
I raise my eyes
For without your prize
I would have seen my demise
----
To those of you who have not yet discovered the joys of dropbox - click here and go discover!
19 June 2009 @ 06:53 am
I'm presenting a twitter workshop for teachers today. Just posting links to places to get information about twitter (as my moo cards have this blog address on the back).
Link to my wikispaces page on twitter: http://dragonsinger.wikispaces.com/twitt
Information on my educational blog about twitter: http://dragonsinger.edublogs.org/twitter/
Link to my blog post about my twitter survey: http://dragonsinger.edublogs.org/2009/06/1
(There will be more posts about the survey which I will add in as they happen.)
My slideshare from the workshop - note that I created it in Keynote and have converted it to PPT so it looks slightly different to the actual presentation and doesn't have any of the spoken bits.
Link to my wikispaces page on twitter: http://dragonsinger.wikispaces.com/twitt
Information on my educational blog about twitter: http://dragonsinger.edublogs.org/twitter/
Link to my blog post about my twitter survey: http://dragonsinger.edublogs.org/2009/06/1
(There will be more posts about the survey which I will add in as they happen.)
My slideshare from the workshop - note that I created it in Keynote and have converted it to PPT so it looks slightly different to the actual presentation and doesn't have any of the spoken bits.
Twitter for teachers
View more OpenOffice presentations from Jo Fothergill.
18 June 2009 @ 09:42 pm
15 June 2009 @ 07:46 pm
Looking for a quick geeky topup ... or maybe you're lacking geek contacts ... my favourite place to go for all information geeky is http://www.geekzone.co.nz/ - i've found it totally informative on all sorts of subject (mobile phones being my fav.)
And you don't have to be kiwi to join the zone.
Go on..
Check it out...
You know you want to ....
And you don't have to be kiwi to join the zone.
Go on..
Check it out...
You know you want to ....
06 June 2009 @ 10:41 am
so i'm posting this from google chrome ... on my mac! ... yeppers - i got a link to a developer copy to download ... and see as how i'm a 'trying out new software' kinda gal i'm having fun!!
so this weekend is going to be spent analysing my twitter survey - will blog about the results later
so this weekend is going to be spent analysing my twitter survey - will blog about the results later
24 May 2009 @ 02:07 pm
[LJ2ME] Darn it
So i dont know exactly what went wrong but somehow my memory card became corrupted and i lost everything on it. So busy now reinstalling stuff.
24 May 2009 @ 09:06 am
[LJ2ME] Posting from my cell phone
This is cool. I just downloaded an app to use for posting from my phone. It's called LJ2ME. If this post appears then it has worked perfectly. Note it's over the internet not the txt system.
Edited to add a link: http://xfyre.com/en/node/22
or just point your mobile to: http://www.xfyre.com/lj2me.jad
Edited to add a link: http://xfyre.com/en/node/22
or just point your mobile to: http://www.xfyre.com/lj2me.jad
23 May 2009 @ 11:32 am
i'm off to print out the picture but i tried it out with my ipod and it's fantastic!