Merry Christmas everyone from all of us here!  Have a safe and enjoyable festive period and a great New Year

Marc, Vic, Max and Elliot

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So this time it’s Auckland for two days…… see y’all soon!

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I emailed my ISP this evening with a complaint about my connection speed.  Here’s the automated reply:

Thank you for contacting Xtra Broadband.

Your email will be answered as soon as possible. However, due to the high volume of emails we are receiving, our response time can be up to 5 days. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Thank you. Xtra Broadband.

Funny

I know most of them must be webbots, crawlers, spiders and any number of automated trawling devices (176 visitors at one time? puurlease!) but 300,000+ hits is kinda cool

My next entry (tomorrow I promise) will tell you about the lovely weekend that Vic and I just spent in Martinborough san kids (but with adults!)

I promise an update this week (after a month and a half!)

My mate Rico sent me this – what every man wanted for Christmas but didn’t get

You also may have noticed that the site was completely screwed up for 24 hours yesterday (or maybe you didn’t ) This was due to my hosts upgrading to php 4.4.1 which broke ExpressionEngine.  It forced my hand in upgrading EE to the new version so it wasn’t all bad.

Not much news really except to say that I’m about 80% well now. The chest infection cleared up with a course of antibiotics but the asthma is kind of hanging around. The head cold decided to come back too so that’s been fun….. especially as I flew yesterday and pressure equalisation was not one of my body’s strong points. Usually I’m a fairly healthy person – so much so that I visited the doctor that the rest of the family use and they had no record of me. As we’ve been back in NZ for 2 and a half years it means it’s been at least that long since I visited the doctor.

In other, site related, news we’ve just passed 250,000 hits on this page so a big thanks to all you visitors