"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Category: Personal
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Well, where do I stat. On 12 December I caught a bus to pick up my scooter from the local repairs at 8:00am where the back tyre and regular maintenance was done (oil change plus other usual 6 monthly checkups). I jumped on my scooter and headed towards Petone on Cuba Street towards Wellington and…
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Just watching this video over on YouTube and David Frum raised some interesting points particularly regarding the way in which the economy has changed resulting in a large number of people being ‘left behind’. The problem is that when you have underfunded education then combine that with desperation bought about by a failing to non-existent…
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I bought some take away on Saturday night and it didn’t sit well in my stomach – I tried to soldier on the next day at work but I had to take the rest of the day off. I made sure I drank lots of water to ensure I didn’t get dehydrated but after having…
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Well, I’ve finally made my domain name the handle for my BlueSky account. Regarding the BlueSky platform, it is growing at an amazing pace when compared to the first wave of people who experimented with Mastodon but decided to stay on X/Twitter because there isn’t the community there. It appears in the case of BlueSky…
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A new season of Silo has appeared on Apple TV, season 2, watch the first episode of the season and it gives a bit of historical context as the main character moves from one of the other silos as she has memory flashbacks of when she was growing up. Looking forward to more episodes as…
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I had an early start today in the office starting at 9:30am (I had to get up at 7:30am to get ready to catch the train into Wellington), it was a long day but there were lost of tasty treats for lunch so I was a happy lad all day. For lunch I had a…
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Yeah, I changed some settings for my domain which stopped people from accessing the website but I’ve now fixed that up which should translate into people being able to access my website again. Basically it occurred when I changed my DNS settings to point to Google Workspace but when I gave up on that experiment…
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I’ve gotten back into taking my iron tablets in the morning and it has made a big difference in terms of alertness, not feeling as fatigued etc. that combined with a breakfast (an ‘Up and Go’ liquid breakfast) I’ve found I’m performing better at work. Change is occuring gradually, it’s more like a marathon rather…
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End of another week, looking forward to relaxing over the next couple of days, sleep in, got the dentist on Tuesday for deep cleaning of my teeth. Around 6 months ago they were able to finish most of it but I needed another appointment to finish it off then after I’ll schedule a yearly check…
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Finished work and to my surprise my local Mexican restaurant is open late so I ordered some Tacos for dinner – I didn’t feel like anything but thought, “why the hell not” and I bought it anyway. They’re around 30 minutes alway so by the time it arrives I’ll submitting this blog post. I some…
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