January 2006 Archives

Summer holidays

It's been beautiful over the high summer holiday season here: warm, sunny, and rainy. Sometimes all at once. I've got a few photos from some camera-worthy outings. First, Minette and I joined William and Cecile and their family for another Tongariro Crossing tramp. Second, Minette and I were invited to our friend Amy's father's bach (kiwi for summer cottage) on the island of Kawau, less than an hour's drive north from Auckland.

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msqr.geek.nz

msqr.us has finally migrated to New Zealand, too, as of about a week ago. Since Minette & I moved here msqr.us had been living at a friend's office in San Francisco. It took about a week for it to fly from there to here, including time to clear customs. Everything went according to plan, and the only hiccup was the disruption of email service during that week.

To celebrate msqr.us's new dual citizenship, he is now also (affectionately) known as msqr.geek.nz. Turns out New Zealand does not allow arbitrary 2-level names, so msqr.nz was not possible. The 3rd-level names are pre-defined, and the only one that actually described msqr.us was .geek, as described in the official New Zealand government documentation:

.geek

For people who are concentrative, technically skilled and imaginative who are generally adept with computer [sic]

Apparently it's also for people who speak in strange sentence structures.