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June, 2009

  1. Broadband – yeah baby!

    June 23, 2009 by Stephanie

    After 10 years of the “joys” of dial-up, we’ve finally gotten broadband internet at home and it is so much freaking better! No more being in the dark ages!

    I hooked everything up, installed everything and was the first to use it. From then on, I vowed to never go back to dial-up. If anything, dial-up should be illegal now.

    I downloaded the new version of Firefox and that took a minute. On dial-up, it would take at least three hours, often longer. I can finally finish downloading the album I purchased on iTunes last year. Yes, last year. I was only downloading one song at a time and even then, it was only the smaller files because the 40/50MB ones would’ve taken forever!

    I’m going to have a freaking ball! :D

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  2. All Blacks v France, 13 June 2009

    June 16, 2009 by Stephanie

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    I’ve finally uploaded three pictures that I took at the All Blacks v France test match in Dunedin on Saturday night. I took a lot of pictures and got some video as well but I won’t be uploading the video any time soon because they’re huge size wise and they’ll take forever and a day to upload on our sucky dial-up connection.

    The first one was taken just before kick-off, the second one is of the Selwyn Ballet (a Dunedin tradition) and the third one is of the French team warning up before the game. It was a nice night – not at all cold like the last time I was at Carisbrook for a game. That time, it was 2°C at kick-off and it got down to -5°C during the game. At least, the beer was cold!

    The All Blacks lost but I’m putting that down to wearing my All Blacks shirt at the game. The last time I saw the All Blacks play France in 2003, I wore my French shirt and the All Blacks won. Maybe that’s telling me something…

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