Short little posts on Life’s little events, experiences, and other observations
Random Assortment of pictures from the Diwali Festival and some blossoms at Cornwall Park. Click image below to access photos…
The Diwali Auckland Festival this year was perhaps sightly smaller than in years preceding, though I thought was still certainly worth a visit.
Ended up walking into the Equippers worship service by accident, thinking it was part of the festival.
An afternoon Roadtrip explore up to Awhitu Lighthouse. Click picture below to access the gallery on NUI.NZ
Rebuilt in 2006 using the original plans from 1874. Official site: Manukau Heads Light House
The Road up to the Lighthouse becomes very windy half way up the Awhitu Peninsula. Beware new speed camera about 400m out (north along Awhitu Road) from Waiuku.
It was observed that a seemingly substantial percentage of the real estate was being marketed for sale, particularly the further north you went (e.g Big Bay). However the reason why this was the case remains unknown.
Sunday walk with Auckland Hiking Group doing the Mangatawhiri reservoir loop. Click photo below to access the gallery (NUI.NZ)
After landing back in Auckland, Embarked on the Waterview, Tunnel Walk, kindly hosted by the NZTA. Could walk about 900m in via the Northnound tunnel then crossing over to the southbound tunnel to walk back. (Though have to admit, was thinking we could walk straight through to the other end)
Beware, Fixed Speed cameras at each end and variable speed limit up to a Maximum of 80km/h.
Short stroll, st along a short part of the the Bethells Coast to Taetahinga Point and back to the track carpark… More to maintain (Hiking specific) Fitness or at least hopefully stop it from falling away too much!!
6th to 7th May 2017 – Explore around Port Waikato and Harker Reserve. Originally meant to be a comet shower observation trip though Forecasts weren’t correct. Click here for Album
Pictures from Taranaki Around the Mountain Circuit have been posted to NUI.NZ
With Matt Davison, Nicole Scheid, Brody Radford and myself. Flew down from Auckland very early Saturday Morning and flew back up to Auckland on the ANZAC Tuesday
T’was a very tough going track, mainly due to the steep and sharp undulations. Oaonui Track was pretty rough and took a lot of energy to do. Was pretty much drained out at the end of both day 2 and day 3 of the Walk. Continue reading “Taranaki Around the Mountain Circuit Trip Notes”
Did a rather short “reconditioning” hike in the morning (before heading off to afternoon family activities), photos posted to NUI.NZ (as per usual).
Route by pure chance ended up being almost exactly identical the Swanson Pipeline Waitakere Dam loop I did last year with the Auckland Hiking Group where the dam was perhaps more spectacular then with water going gushing down it. My own photos for that hike have been posted here.
Almost feel like combining the two albums.
General Snaps from various Auckland CBD locations.
Watched Indiana Jones – “Raiders of the lost ark” + Orchestral performance by the Auckland Philharmonia at the Civic Theatre in town, which was quite a jolly performance. Continue reading “Auckland Arts Festival”
Returned back to Cowan Stream. It’s a goodie which I’ve done several times in the past. Really enjoy the soak there and the opportunities to jump of rocks into the pools below. Including a friendly Eel at the base of one of the falls.
Small group Explore around Destruction Gully Near Whatipu along the Manukau Harbour.
Fishermen were naturally edgy as we walked along the coast, evidently afraid that we might be fishery officers.
11th February 2017 – Random pictures with a walk around Pukekohe Hill and Waitangi Falls around the former Franklin District.
I still need to draw down the excessive annual leave racked up and travel overseas, somewhere, anywhere, for say a month.
Grapes overhanging a fence at a friend’s place in Papakura…
30th January 2017 – Wairoa Cosseys Track (one way involving car shuttle) Redux. Fairly easy walk through some pretty lush bush. Due to the ambient temperature of 27°C, still ended up hitting my heat limit a number of times. Hunua Falls upon our arrival was packed with people looking to cool off in the pool at the base of the falls.
Labour Weekend Trip to the Kaimanawas including Mount Urchin to Waipakihi Hut.
Mini Trip report included with Album.
Short stop at Clevedon Strawberries + Leisurely Sunday afternoon
Feeding time on command. In Cambridge, Waikato.
The Original piece appeared to come from here http://www.math.psu.edu/tseng/progcycle.html
1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
2. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
3. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren’t really bugs.
4. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn’t work and discovers 15 new bugs.
5. Repeat three times steps 3 and 4.
6. Due to marketing pressure and an extremely premature product announcement based on overly-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.
7. Users find 137 new bugs.
8. Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.
9. Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.
10. Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji. Entire testing department quits.
11. Company is bought in a hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.
12. New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires a programmer to redo program from scratch.
13. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
Bread and circuses I tell ya, bread and circuses I tells ya! Ye masses are addicted to Pokemon Go. More distraction and entertainment by the ruling classes to keep ye mindless numb skulls happy and away from the real and wider issues that ultimately affect us all.
Stroll around Clevedon Reserve, photos here… https://nui.nz/2016/08/07/clevedon-scenic/
