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Aucklandista
Best takeaways in Auckland
You know you’ve found a gem of a take-away place, when on a Friday night you’re willing to park your car on a random street and walk inside the RWC road-block to collect your Chicken and Cashews. That’s how much I love Fat Boy Thai on Sandringham road, just down the road from Eden Park. It’s awesome, and even if [...]
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Aucklandista, charity, community
Footloose Funwalk – support MS sufferers
10.10.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsMultiple Sclerosis is the most common of all the neurological disorders. It affects people of all ages and backgrounds, but commonly strikes between the ages of 20-40. Women are three times more likely than men to develop MS, and the prevalence is higher the further from the equator you live I find these statistics particularly [...]
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Aucklandista, geekery, interwebs, politics
A poem for Auckland
One of this city’s finest citizens has called for poems about Auckland’s Mayor race. Naturally I obliged with more than 140 characters. O Auckland my Auckland! Our fearful trip is done, John Banks has weathered every rack, the prize he sought is won, The port is (not) near, the bells I hear, the people all [...]
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Aucklandista
Giapo. Gelato 2.0.
At the time of writing, Wikipedia defined a social network as “A social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes,” which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.” Also, it would seem, [...]
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Aucklandista
Pretty shiny things: The New Zealand Jewellery Show
06.23.10 | Permalink | 3 CommentsImage from www.jewelleryshow.co.nz I have definite magpie-like tendencies. By which I don’t mean that I swoop down from trees to viciously peck unsuspecting pedestrians on the head. Rather, I’m irresistably drawn to pretty shiny things. So the New Zealand Jewellery Show is right up my alley. Held at SkyCity from 2-4 July, the show will [...]
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