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I finally bought a DVD writer for home when my CDRW drive broke two days ago. I wanted to buy the best one I could get my hands on because they date so quickly. I decided on the Sony DRU720A, a dual-layer, dual-format DVD/CD writer. It has the quickest write speeds available today plus it […]

Yesterday I took delivery of a new Brother MFC410CN for home. It’s a very nice, neat machine that can scan, fax, and copy without needing to be connected to a pc. It has a built-in fax modem, and can be connected to through USB or LAN. I created a reservation on my DHCP server to […]

Another big ‘quake this morning, details from Geonet.

After a hectic three weeks of holidays, travelling and weddings we’re back to reality. It’s been a fun, crazy time with the week leading up to our wedding seeing the arrival of Andy & Jerome, Chris & Beula, and Mum & Ben from overseas. The wedding was superb and the whole day came together nicely […]

We’ve been on holiday for a week and are now staying at Brackenridge in preparation for the big day. We had the wedding rehearsal last night and all went well, including the music – I bought an inverter to plug in the cigarette lighter of the car to be able to power the stereo, and […]

I have a whole heap of Gmail invites to give away, if you want one send an email to stuart.maxwell@gmail.com and I’ll send you the invite. For those of you that don’t know, Gmail is the new webmail service from Google and the best thing about it is that you get a whopping 1GB of […]

We’ve been having some of the best weather ever in Wellington over the last couple of weeks. Good timing as my old friends Brad and Amon have been staying with us for the last week. We’ve been swimming down at the river in Moonshine and the beach at Scorching Bay. The only downside is that […]

The last week or so has been superb in Wellington – summer is here at last!!! We’ve been to a couple of the concerts in the Botanical Gardens put on for free as part of the Meridian Energy Summer City Festival 2005. Highlights have been the California Dreamers who performed all the classics music of […]

We had a pretty big earthquake here this morning – measured 5.5 on the Richter scale, and it was the first big one I’ve felt over here – quite exciting. Here are the details taken from the Geonet website: http://www.geonet.org.nz/x2354133g_l.html Reference Number: 2354133/G Universal Time: January 20 2005 at 18:56 NZ Daylight Time: Friday, January […]

I’m always asked the question: “What is amanzi?” Amanzi is the zulu word for ‘water’ and the town that i grew up in was called ‘Amanzimtoti’ which means ‘sweet waters’. The town got it’s name from the chief of the zulus, Shaka Zulu, who once stopped to drink at the river and declared: “kanti amanza […]