Holidays

Yesterday we went to the "Return of the King" cast and crew screening, it was pretty damn cool. Sadly I think the opening scene and the ending scenes were the weakest but overall I'm incredibly proud to have been able to contribute towards the trilogy. The visual effects were mind blowing, especially the Pelennor Fields battle scenes.

Tomorrow morning Teresa and I, along with my new best friend, rise at seven am to board the Lynx and head towards Nelson. After a couple days kayaking around AbelTasman National Park we head south for Teresa's first ever summer christmas.

A week or so with family and friends and we're off again up the west coast (via the MoerakiBoulders and the "new big mall" in ChristchurchNewZealand) until we end up in NelsonNewZealand and possibly Takaka and Golden Bay to catch up with friends. Finally home to relax for a few days before back to work on the 12th.

See ya soon.

New ... Favorite ... Picture ...

Teresa says I only like it cause her tongue is "moist" ...

Doubt

• "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." -- RichardFeynman

JonathonDelacour writes about information overload. The inspiration for my IntelligentAgent piece was similar, just not as good as I have a hard time directing it with a steady hand.

Practice, practice, practice ...

The Slammer

Sorry for the intrusion folks but I've locked down the site to read only until the current kiddies get over the kick of "cracking" a publicly editable site.

I'm playing with MoinMoin's AccessControlList system so I may of fubar'd something. If you would really like access let me know and I should be able to grant you access.

Hopefully things will be back to normal soon.

Squeaky Clean

I've been through so many iterations of experimentation with categorizing this wiki that I've been left with a bit of a cesspool. As I prepare to work on the navigation and look and feel of this site I figure it's about time I actually cleaned it all up a bit. The first step was to make a decision about what categories should actually exist. The next step was to consolidate all the spurious categories into their correct pages, and finally to jump into a mini regex-hell and cleap up all my inconsistant syntax that I've used over the years.

So after much perl -pi -e 's/xxx/yyy/g' * in my wiki source directory I believe there is now one true categorization scheme. Hopefully it makes more sense to everyone ... especially myself.

Note to self, when in doubt remember: WorseIsBetter.

There Be Days, and Days

Starts off with swinging by the local church christmas fair just in time to see Santa arrive by chopper for all the kiddies. Guess in lieu of raindeer that's not a bad hack.

Then downtown to the ren fair which, nicely timed to coincide with the LotR premier weekend, was packed with tourists, rings geeks and the always present "fair people". Then rollerblading down the parade and water from (BTW, waterfront of downtown WellingtonNewZealand is a mecca for blading, nothing really challenging but lots of cruising fun).

After the exercice we had beers in the sun listening to the local latin scenes drum music and salsa dancing, and now finally more wedding planning and watching "Traffic" on TV. NewZealand consistantly has suprisingly good movies on the weekends.

I feel that we've covered all the bases for today. Tomorrow we get to be one of the cool kids and hang out across from the Embassy Theatre at our own private Weta party watching the stars arrive.

Celebrity Skin

Teresa gets to hang with Elijah Wood. Apparently I'm expendable.

Please, someone make the hangover go away.