http://www.deeknow.com Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:23:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just got home from a week long trip to Norway for a conference, yes really :-) and thought I'd share some tales of aircraft fun.. and terror.. along the way. First up was a Singapore Airlines 777-300er flight SQ286 from Auckland to Singapore, Changi. This was a lovely machine to ... http://www.deeknow.com/2010/02/05/there-and-back-tales-of-flying-and-woe/ Last weekend I had the pleasure of going on a 90-min session in the Flight-Experience (FE) 737-NG sim at their branch in Hamilton. The family got together for my last birthday and shelled out for a voucher for me, bless them, so into garden-place I went in Hamilton with my ... http://www.deeknow.com/2009/11/05/flight-experience-as-real-as-it-gets-without-leaving-the-ground/ People have said to us that we need to make the most of the time with our new baby early on coz they grow up so fast. But I don't think we were quite expecting our little one to be going to the pub at 8-weeks. OK, so we were ... http://www.deeknow.com/2009/07/03/paige-goes-to-the-pub-how-quickly-they-grow-up/ Seeing as Kym and I are only a handfull of hours away from a life-changing exercise, ie Kym having our first child, it seemed like a good idea to post something from our relatively calm and peaceful environment, and later contrast that with a tired and weary first time parents ... http://www.deeknow.com/2009/04/08/pre-baby-preambulation/ Me mum just FWD'd me this hard case pic (no doubt doctored in Photoshop) of someone about to end their ablutions a bit earlier than they thought (there's a Lion creeping up in the top-right corner) Jesus, that'd do it all right. I was in almost the exact same position when ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/12/12/baboon-toilet-junkies/ The world is ending, run for the hills. Gwynne Dyer said so, it must be true. Ok, so he didn't actually say it was ending but he covered some pretty gloomy topics and delivered some alarming stats at his talk at Waikato University tonight that might lead you to believe ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/09/02/the-world-is-ending-gwynne-said-so/ Kym and I are on our winter break down at Ruapehu, have been here since the weekend, and now is the first time I've managed to escape the evil clutches of her-indoors to make a break for the nearest Internet terminal. I'll have to make something up for my ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/08/21/god-i-love-winter/ Like most bike riders I'm pretty much always keeping an eye on the trade mags and websites monitoring new bike releases and prices. Its not that bikers are loaded with dosh and can change bikes on a whim every few months, in fact I'd say every 2-4 years is pretty ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/07/29/bye-bye-blade-tenakoe-triumph/ Last night I went round to a bike riding mate's place and watched a GP race that totally restored my interest and faith in the vitality and health of the Grand Prix bike racing scene, much to my relief. The season has been shaping up wickedly, the wins have been shared ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/07/23/rossi-strikes-back/ Last weekend Kym decided enough was enough and she would have to procure her own Laptop seeing as she wasn't having much luck getting keyboard time on our communal desktop. So off to town we went with credit-card in hand, in to Smiths Dicks to browse the dozens of ... http://www.deeknow.com/2008/07/14/inter-species-skyping/