Posted by kiwinewt on 30 November, 2009
Has anyone thought about what happened to the global population around the time of the last recession? Baby boomers sound familiar? In the group of parents at my step-daughters preschool, there are 15-20 pregnant women…
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Posted by kiwinewt on 29 November, 2009
Just a couple of links I felt like sharing. Theme: Inspiration http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-nice-and-beautiful-blog-design/ – Inspiration for the new blog http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ – Inspiration for business (Seth Godin’s blog) http://unclutterer.com/ – Inspiration for life http://eco-officegals.com/ – Inspiration for green business http://community.livejournal.com/saucydwellings/ – Inspiration for my future house http://nzangels.com/ – Inspiration for my startup http://veggiepatchreimagined.blogspot.com/ – Inspiration for my [...]
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Posted by kiwinewt on 28 November, 2009
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Hopefully, now that I have got *most* of the design in place for Kiwinewt.Geek and WebToday, I should be able to get a new design done for this site. Does anyone have ideas on what they would like to see as part of this? One addition I will add is a flickr feed on the [...]
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Posted by kiwinewt on 23 November, 2009
Coming Soon Jan 2010… This is a test post…
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Posted by kiwinewt on 22 November, 2009
A while ago I was given a bag of soap nuts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapindus). I have just finally gotten around to making up some liquid soap from them. The instructions that come with them say to use a cup of soap nuts to a litre of water and simmer for 20 minutes, which I followed. Oddly enough, [...]
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Posted by kiwinewt on 21 November, 2009
I have now mentally committed myself to Project365 – take a photo a day for a whole year. I think that the coming year is going to be really interesting and filled with a few interesting events – the birth of my first child, the hopeful quitting of my job and working for myself, etcetera [...]
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Posted by kiwinewt on 9 November, 2009
It might not sound like much… but today I pinched out my first laterals from my tomato plants. Looks like they have mostly survived I’ll post some pics sometime soon, but till then, have a comic ‘specially from AppleGeeks:
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Posted by kiwinewt on 8 November, 2009
Today I asked in #rubyonrails: How can I have a model with a text field and have that text field in multiple languages? Epic thanks to Radar for the answer: http://frozenplague.net/2009/11/scoping-by-locales/
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