Author Archives: xpd

NZ Sports Car Series

Over the coming months, I’m helping a friend with his racing in the NZ Sports Car series. Its a great experience, as apart from assisting with the car setup / prep , it also gives me time to get photos of some fantastic vehicles taking part over the weekends racing. I’ll add pics to the… Read More »

Hello Fiji! (again)

In a few weeks time, I’m off to Fiji for the 2nd time in my life 🙂 Taking a P&O cruise for 8 nights which stops at 3 Fiji locations. Can’t wait – where possible I’ll post some pics and info here as we go.

Human race extinction date announced.

I am seriously concerned about the future of the human race. The number of things which are so obvious that are completely missed by todays generation is scary. Things such as this : Read the message. It clearly explains why it has failed. Yet so many people post online asking why this error has appeared… Read More »

Quic is quick

So I recently put in a request to move my connection with Quic internet to our new house, and cancel our old connection. Guess what ? They got it right in one go, no hassles, no having to contact them to move my static IP or anything, just plugged my router into the ONT, and… Read More »

Am I getting too old for games ?

Been getting bored of games lately…. and think I worked out why. Theyre getting too complicated for themselves. When I started gaming, games were pretty straight forward, or at most after a couple of hours you worked out how to play them. Todays games are so full of game related functions and options, its overwhelming… Read More »

I am still alive!

Honest! Not been posting as much as I had hoped over last few months, but been a bit going on in the real world. Sold our house, so preparing for move to new house (can’t wait), bought a new car (2023 Haval Jolion Ultra Hybrid), and role at work has changed quite a bit. Will… Read More »

Picture gallery….

…. is offline. I cannot for whatever reason, find a decent WordPress image gallery that does not have issues. I’ve been through a few, and all have ground stopping problems. So until I find a solution, all image galleries are offline.

2 Degrees downfall

As per one of my previous posts, 2Degrees started on a downhill slide, which people are/were hoping to be a temporary thing while 2D sorted out all the networks they bought into. Unfortunately the problems are still on going, and people are bailing from anything related to 2Degrees (Orcon, Slingshot), left right and center. Multiple… Read More »

Dungeon Crawler Carl

A man. His ex-girlfriend’s cat. And a bunch of clueless aliens who have just wiped out 95 % of the Earth. For TV ratings. Was looking for something new to read/listen to, when I came across a Reddit post about “LitRPG” – had no clue what that was but found its meaning – “literary role… Read More »