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I’ve taken down the photo album from this site after my bandwidth was hammered by googlebots. The photo album was a mirror of the one on our www.debandstu.co.nz site so the googlebots were downloading the same information twice. Actually the entire album got indexed four times as it was also possible to get to it […]

I’ve just been reading an interesting article on the Ars Technica website about how the copy protection that is being used on new CD’s is making it harder for honest people to enjoy their music while doing nothing to prevent piracy. This is something I’ve agreed with for some time now – pirates will always […]

I’ve just posted some details and pictures of our cute new kittens on the DebandStu site. Link here: http://www.debandstu.co.nz/2005/08/08/new-kittens-cooper-and-minnie/

My new notebook arrived on Monday and I couldn’t be happier with it. I spent a lot of time leading up to this purchase researching prices and features of various notebooks and brands and I’m fairly sure that I got it right. This notebook is my first, proper, new computer – all of the others […]

My laptop has been slowly dying over the last few months – first the edge of the screen frame cracked and worsened to the point of having to prop the screen up against something solid when in use; then it got knocked off the dining room table and cracked the corner of the case – […]

F1010030 Originally uploaded by amanzi. I’ve just posted the official photos from our Wedding Album online at Flickr. For more photos have a look at our wedding albums at www.debandstu.co.nz.

IMG0003 Originally uploaded by amanzi. I was lucky enough to get Gran Turismo 4 for my birthday too. It has a cool feature where you can take photos of your cars and then save the images onto a USB flash drive. Here is a taste of what the photos can do – there’s some more […]

Now this is cool…. For my birthday I was bought a new Leatherman to replace the one I lost last year. The Leatherman Charge Ti is one of the new top of the line multi-tools, this from the Leatherman website: It’s time to expect more from a multi-tool, and the Charge Ti gives it to […]

Thought I’d mention a website that I came across recently called Flickr. It’s photo sharing site and you can get an account for free which allows you to upload 10MB per month of photos. The cool thing is that it’s soooo easy to share your photos with a group of people and you can view […]

Group photos Originally uploaded by amanzi. A nice photo of the London Crew at our wedding. These are the people that we met during our years in London. From left to right (standing): Andy, Shelley, Brad, Deb, Stuart, Mel, Matt, Mereama, Andy, Celine, Matt, Beula, Jo.And left to right (front): Amon, Amber, Damian, Chris