Monthly Archives: November 2007

Mintshot

I’ve been watching mintshot.co.nz this morning, interesting idea. I have watched a lot of adds, and have ~3,000 mint dollars. Most thing seem to be selling for m$12,000, so I’m guessing I need to watch for a few weeks to … Continue reading

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House Update – Joists all done

Harvey and I got the last sole plate, foundation board, and joists in place yesterday (Canterbury’s A&P Show Day). The room has a very close to finished feeling. We then started inspecting the rest of the house, to check for … Continue reading

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House Update

Saturday was spent working on the house again.  The end result was 1.4 m wall section replaced (foundation board and wall base board) and three joists in place (plus a 4″x 2″ at the end of these). All this can … Continue reading

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Windows Live Writer leaves Beta

Windows Live Write leaves Beta and moves into the bundle-ware stage. This was announced two days ago on the Windows Live Writer blog, but like previous releases, the http://writer.live.com/ URL just redirected you to some crap http://get.live.com/wl/coming_soon page. Luckily the … Continue reading

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Super Paper Mario

Shannon, the great game pimp, has leant me Super Paper Mario. Once I got past the talk-a-thon at the start, the game has been great fun.  I love the 2D/3D of the game, swapping state all the time to look … Continue reading

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