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October 2010 Posts

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  1. Oct 2: Time-traveling container ship
  2. Oct 3: Land anticipation
  3. Oct 4: One big engine (2)
  4. Oct 5: AuckLAND ho! (5)
  5. Oct 7: Plugging back into life on land
  6. Oct 9: Brief portrait of a blogging backpacker
  7. Oct 11: End of an era: Ask.com shutting down Bloglines (3)
  8. Oct 12: Tramping Rangitoto (6)
  9. Oct 15: A peek at Auckland’s bush (1)
  10. Oct 16: A look inside a Māori wharenui (2)
  11. Oct 18: Driving on the left (5)
  12. Oct 19: Pohutu in action
  13. Oct 20: Kiwis crossing at night (2)
  14. Oct 21: From North to South (Island) (3)
  15. Oct 23: Swimming with dolphins (4)
  16. Oct 26: Kaikoura Peninsula
  17. Oct 27: From Palpatine to Voyager
  18. Oct 28: Tekapo and Pukaki (5)
  19. Oct 29: The highest paved road in New Zealand (2)
  20. Oct 31: Kayaking Milford Sound (with penguins!) (4)

October 2010 Neatlinks

Fri, Oct 8

Handy: Geographic coordinate conversion (0 comments)

Wed, Oct 13

So great to see the Ariel Victoria set sail (1 comment)

Catching up on a month’s worth of unread blog posts (before Bloglines shuts down!) and wanted to link to two bits of old news that I thought were worth noting.

MSN/Windows Live Spaces Closing, becomes WP.com (see also: Welcome Windows Live Spaces Bloggers)

The Document Foundation succeeds OpenOffice.org and plans to release LibreOffice (free from Oracle’s clutches) (0 comments)

Sailboat + killer whales + baby = Estelle and the Orcas (video by some folks I met in Auckland last weekend) (0 comments)

Jodi travels the world for two years and then all her stuff is stolen upon return to the US:

they took my 500GB backup hard drive, my netbook with another backup of my photos and my 32GB flash card with the 3rd backup of my photos. All of these were in different places in the apartment, and all are gone.

(0 comments)

Sun, Oct 17

Whoa, my old Sandwich Américain post just got Reddit’d: 11,000 views so far today and climbing…

Update: 16,509 views for the day. (0 comments)

Mon, Oct 18

That’s a mighty familiar perspective: Fogtown (view of the Bay Bridge from Harrison and Embarcadero) (0 comments)

To check out upon our return: Kevin Kelly’s new book, What Technology Wants (0 comments)

Tue, Oct 19

Watch out, there’s a new “Martha” on the block: DIY Cocktails: A simple guide to creating your own signature drinks (explanation here) (0 comments)

Wed, Oct 20

Thanks to Todd Lappin for his great review of our container ship voyage: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Traveling to New Zealand on a Container Ship (0 comments)

Sun, Oct 24

Neat map: The True Size of Africa (0 comments)

Tue, Oct 26

I don’t know if it’s the New Zealand air or the half a bottle of wine I’ve had to drink tonight, but this xkcd made me LOL: Constructive (0 comments)

Thu, Oct 28

It’s an NZ TV commercial, and derivative, but pretty good nonetheless: House of Travel: Powered by People (0 comments)

Sun, Oct 31

It seems like everyone I know is makin’ bacon and sausages: We made all of this meat stuff (0 comments)

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