This Fish ‘N Chips Place Is Across The Street From My Flat

Thanks to Meggo for finding the article.

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Care To Join Me For A Meeting In My Office?

Pictures of the flat have been requested and are available, inside…

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Google Voice Just Doesn’t Know Me

Google Voice is a magnificent service that is a pleasure to use, even though they haven’t yet learned my name. Dearest Google, I don’t want to sound like a spurned user with commitment issues, but we’ve been over this before. When I signed up? I told you then… I am Carey. It’s right there, the [...]

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Bananas In Pajamas Are Chasing Teddy Bears Down The Stairs

I’m really not sure what to do with this, but apparently it’s big over here.
Bananas.
In pajamas.

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Proof That I Can, In Fact, Take Things Seriously (Occasionally!)

It was bound to happen eventually, but I finally used the same piece of news to generate posts for both C’ist and Consumer Reports. And it only took the President announcing a food safety crackdown as part of his weekly address. Since I cover the weekly address for Consumer Reports, I had to write about [...]

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Screw It, I’m Adding A Fifth Browser

Google’s sprawling empire is taking up too much tab room in Firefox so I’m sequestering their services to a brand new browser, bringing my total up to five. It sounds crazy, I know. I never understood people who used more than one browser until I became a blogger. Then it all made sense, and most [...]

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Signs It’s Almost Time To Come Home

I’m up in Palmerston North because Stacy was down visiting Wellington with a car and it was time for a road trip. I’ve driven by Palmy, as it’s known, three times so far without any desire to go visit. There’s only one thing here: the square. That’s it. There are some nice shops and whatever [...]

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So What’s The New Place Like?

Here it is, set to exciting dance music by some real estate broker. The apartment shown is one of the snazzy two-level maisonettes up on the eighth floor, but you get the gist.

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