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On Saturday afternoon Lydia and I thought we’d go for a bit of a drive - it was fairly aimless, but ended up being quite long and adventurous…

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Just a quick note to say that another Below43 site has launched: NZ Android Phone News.

The site aims to bring news about the Google Android Phone to NZ.

More here.

The latest post on the Flickr Blog is about the National Library of New Zealand which was one of the first users of Flickr’s Commons which is for public photo archives.  The library’s collection is viewable here and the blog post is here.  Nice to see someone in the NZ public sector up with the technology.

I’ve had the idea for a while, and now that I’m back in Aotearoa, and in a new city, its a good chance to get it started. Kawhe.com is the name for my new site, “New Zealand Cafe Review”.

The idea behind this is to identify the best cafes in New Zealand. At the moment we have reviewers in Christchurch and Auckland, but I’m hoping that as interest grows, so will the number of available reviewers.

This was a good exercise in Wordpress setups. The whole thing including finding a good theme and installing caching and star review module (to put pretty stars on the page) took four hours.  In time, I may want to change the site to arrange reviews in a better structure, but for now tagging and categories will help me organise the reviews.

Reviews take into account the coffee (both espresso and flat whites), food and atmosphere.

Click here to go to kawhe.com…

Lydia was working and it was a beautiful hot sunny day (temperature in the high 20’s), so decided to go for a drive in the Port Hills above Christchurch. I took quite a few photos on Summit Rd - this runs along the rim between two volcanic craters (one of which forms Lyttelton Harbour). Lovely views of the ocean (New Brighton Beach in particular), Christchurch and the Southern Alps (a wee bit of snow left) - could also see beyond the haze towards Kaikoura and the Alps extending further North from Christchurch.  Morocco and China photos will be up as soon as I get a chance… View photos here or click here for a slideshow.