Auckland And The Needle Of Death
March 16, 2004 12:08 pm General
Patrick and I headed up to Auckland at the weekend to see Billy Connolly and his ‘Too young to die old’ tour. It was a pretty relaxing weekend all in all, with a nice meal of mussels and frites in a Belgian pub and a couple of Leff Brun. There’s not a huge amount to do in Auckland except throw yourself off random buildings, but we decided to pass on the norm and opted to see Kelly Tarlton’s underworld adventure. It was pretty good, although not quite on the same scale as the Sydney aquarium. In between some crazy golf [Kiwis seem to have this thing about crazy golf] and some frames of pool, we headed up to the Skytower, for a bird’s eye view of the city, before another typical chill out afternoon in New Zealand. For an incredible $175, you can plummet down the side of the building at 75kmh in a gaudy costume of blue and yellow. I think I’d like them to pay me for doing that.
I’m slowly starting to catch up on things at work – things were totally swamped when I got back to India, and while I’ve been pretty busy, I’m beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. JDS seems to be going pretty well, despite various dubious decisions being made along the way. I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to desperately get all the localized documentation back upstream before the 2.6.0 tarballs are released. That’s seems to be mostly successful so far. Another interesting turn of events is our increasing desire to work against community HEAD wherever possible and maintain as few patches as possible locally – hopefully it’ll just be a few branding and translation patches. This is a pretty huge direction to what we’ve currently done, having maintained 100’s of patches previously. I’m definitely getting the feel good factor about doing this work, despite how tedious it is becoming.
