I’ve been away in Melbourne for the past week. What an amazing city! We had a awesome time there, fitting in two concerts; Arcade Fire and the next day Rage Against The Machine. Both outstanding gigs!

Also - I proposed to Amanda.

She said yes.

We’re both totally stoked!

It was our last day in Melbourne. We were having a drink in the shade of a big tree on the Yarra river and it was just so perfect so I popped the question! She said yes immediately and we both giggled and celebrated with another sip of our drinks!

Anyway - I’m sure I’ll have more to say about the whole trip once I settle back into a routine. Happy, happy days!!!

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I’m not much of a sports type. That is to say, I hate most sport. However when there’s a large global event I often find myself being ever-so-slightly interested…Olympics, Football World Cup and more recently the Rugby World Cup. Now days I’m expected to support my local team - and in this case that would be the All Blacks.

They didn’t do too well.

So I really had no choice but to support my original team: The Springboks.

This morning I woke up at 6am and drove the 20 odd kilometres over the Harbour Bridge to the deep North Shore to a bar called Bar Africa (well, what did you expect!?) to watch the Rugby World Cup final. South Africa vs. England. I guess by this point you can tell that South Africa won.

Even though I was up far too early for a Sunday I had a thoroughly enjoyable time watching the final. I’m glad South Africa won, and I’m glad to have been a part of an awesome, enthusiastic support party!

Go BOKKE!

Adam and I are going to release a CD - here’s the track listing…
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During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I’ll be growing a moustache. Thats right…I’ve completely shaved off my beard (sob) and have started growing a moustache.

No - this isn’t complete madness on my part, it’s actually for a good cause. All the proceeds from this event goes towards the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand.
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I’ve been living in New Zealand for over five years now. I left London very much against my will. I was unable to secure myself a working permit for England and my working holiday visa had expired so I had no choice but to bail. My folks had immigrated to New Zealand while I was doing my OE so I didn’t have a home in South Africa to go back to. That’s how I ended up in this fine country…
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We’ve been living in Emily place for a about 3 years now. It’s an awesome part of Auckland - close to the city (hm - it is the city), the supermarket, the nightlife, etc. Living the apartment life has been great but it’s now time for us to move along.
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I haven’t been to the Kings Arms in ages…I cant actually remember what the last gig was I went to there…Last night will definately be one of the gigs I’ll never forget.

Manda and I went to see the Dresden Dolls last night. It was fucken awesome!
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Don’t know why I haven’t made the effort to walk across the road to have a beer at The Schooner Tavern…however, last night I made the mammoth 245m walk to the Schooner to play bingo with Tineke, Sean, Mieke and Manda girl!
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I released the mockup for the redesign some weeks ago. During then and now several things have happened that have prevented me from releasing this sooner.

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That’s right, folks! I’ve joined the ‘design’ world proper with the purchase of a MacBook.

I’ve been using a G5 at work for a while now and I started to find that when I went home and had to work on my IBM Windows machine I just got sad/angry. The keys weren’t in the right place, applications were slow to respond and the lack of proper anti-aliasing was beginning to fuck with me…I had to make the change!

And, god, am I glad!
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