Recent Purchases

TradeMe is NZ's answer to ebay, for some reason the latter never really caught on here. But TradeMe is great, it has changed the way I think about buying things (i.e. always check TradeMe first). It is also very useful when you live away from a large urban centre, i.e. somewhere like Ohakune.

Anyway, recently I've bought:
1. a 256mb mp3 player, a chinese job with a bit of background buzz but only noticeable in very quiet environments with the volume down low. Should be good for the travel I will be doing in my job;
2. CDs - Browbeat, Dr Onionskin, Royal. Browbeat's an acoustic compilation that we had on tape, Fiona likes it a lot so getting the CD is a nice find. The other 2 I know very little about, but hey they were only $3 each;
3. 56k external modem - after a great PC hook-up from Matty (www.avenir.co.nz) I needed a modem so Fiona can be on-line at home too. Still waiting for this to arrive;

More (purchases) later.

Initial State

I've tried blogging in the past - it didn't really seem to work for me. I'm trying again. Mostly because I find lots of cool stuff, from Trade Me or LUGnet for example, so I guess I'll post them here.

So far today I've found this - it's very cool, but obviously the guy has a lot of time & money on his hands: http://www.acpin.homestead.com/LegoMOC.html

Dilbert, another daily site visit, www.dilbert.com hasn't been on top form lately but is consistently funny and uncannily relevant.

More later.