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		<title>change of address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for years we kept hearing about this real estate boom and decided it was time to get in on the action &#8211; hope it&#8217;s not too late? after 2 1/2 years of looking and countless open houses (probably close to 100 for the jboss) we finally have a signed contract on a house. it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fryphone.com/nzblog/2009/12/11/change-of-address-2/</link>
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		<title>the long way home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[another in our series of long city walks, today we did the &#8220;go the distance&#8221; walk along the wellington harbour, and then extended it by walking the rest of the way home via the southern coast. 16.93 km (10.52 miles) from start to finish. there is common phrase said throughout nz that &#8220;you can&#8217;t beat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fryphone.com/nzblog/2009/12/05/the-long-way-home-2/</link>
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		<title>big city, small town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[with a population of almost 400,000 i have found wellington to have almost all the big city things i would want &#8211; arts, entertainment, sports, restaurants, shops, etc. but what i’m really happy about is the small town feel. most weeks i’ll have some small town experience that will make my day. some examples: i’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fryphone.com/nzblog/2009/11/22/big-city-small-town-2/</link>
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		<title>city to sea &#8211; aea ot ytic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[today we completed the longest and most challenging of the wellington city walks &#8211; the city to sea. 19.8km (12.3 miles) along the western ridge line from parliament to the southern coast. except we did in reverse starting at our house, heading down to the island bay coast and then heading into the city. 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fryphone.com/nzblog/2009/11/08/city-to-sea-reversed-3/</link>
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		<title>her majesty&#8217;s park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[today we went for a tramp at queen elizabeth park along the western shore about a hour north of wellington. we didn&#8217;t see the queen &#8211; but i&#8217;m guessing that she&#8217;s a bit harder to spot in her tramping gear. we started in the middle of the park, walking north along the beach, then heading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fryphone.com/nzblog/2009/10/25/her-majestys-park/</link>
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		<title>south central park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[not the south part of central park &#8211; but a southern central park. wellington has it&#8217;s own dog friendly small urban central park that has just been completed a rehab, so today we all went for a short tramp. gromit was happy to see the water fountain has a built in dog bowl.]]></description>
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		<title>southern walkway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[today was the first of our big city tramps &#8211; the southern walkway. 12km (75 miles) from island bay to oriental bay along the eastern ridge. out starting point is shortland park, in island bay next to the coast. the old public toilets have been taken over by the dunes. looking back on island bay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fryphone.com/nzblog/2009/09/26/southern-walkway/</link>
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		<title>nothing to hide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[air new zealand has launched a series of commercials under the banner of &#8220;nothing to hide&#8220; they&#8217;ve also made redone their preflight safety video. you will not be seeing this on any us airline anytime soon. [click on the image for the video] all the videos are on youtube here including bloopers and behind the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fryphone.com/nzblog/2009/06/30/nothing-to-hide-5/</link>
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		<title>delegated financial authority:  $0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[friday was my last day at company &#8220;e2, an h2 company&#8221; and today my first day at company t. not much of a change since whilst i at company e2 i had been on assignment at company t &#8211; so same job title, same location (one desk to the left), and many of the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fryphone.com/nzblog/2009/03/16/ed-long-overdue-update-in-progress/</link>
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		<title>dunedin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[day 11 and the final stop on our trip is dunedin. founded in the mid 1800&#8242;s by scottish settlers and now home of nz&#8217;s largest uni, the university of otago, dunedin definitely had a university town feel to it. many of early settlers came from edinburgh and the city has very similar architecture. every saturday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fryphone.com/nzblog/2009/03/07/dunedin-2/</link>
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