Recent Posts

Reviewing red wine

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My post about informally reviewing red wine.

A new son is born!

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We now have a second son to introduce to the world!

Not long now

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Getting ready for the birth of our second child which is due very soon!

Visual Studio Code

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Why I recommend Visual Studio Code as your main text editor.

BTDF in Visual Studio 2015

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Workaround for getting BTDF to work with BizTalk 2016 and Visual Studio 2015. [UPDATE: This workaround is no longer required. BTDF is now updated]

Goodbye my mother

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This is very hard one for me to write.

Off to Microsoft Ignite in New Zealand!

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This year Mexia are sending several co-workers and I to the Microsoft Ignite conference to be held in Auckland, New Zealand.

Azure App Services announced

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Microsoft announced Azure App Services today. This will definitely be a technology to watch to see how the future of BizTalk development may evolve. However ...

Intrepid?

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Dictionary.reference.com defines Intrepid as:

Nathan is here!

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I have been really really slack with this site hey?

Not long now!

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Tomorrow is Femke’s last day at her work for about 9 months!

An addition to the family!

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I don’t know if many or any people are still following this blog? However I do just want to proudly announce that my future wife to be Femke is now about 8 w...

Macbook Pro

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Most of you already know that on my personal PC side, I have switched from PC to Mac. After using an iPhone for over a year by that time I was curious about ...

Wow… time does fly!

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Wow. it’s been over a year since I have touched this site.

House Hunting

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Femke now has her residency visa, so now we move on to setting up our own lives together.

A Dutch Life

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My thoughts reflecting back on life in the Netherlands for 3 months and how it compares to Australia.

Journey back to Australia

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Sadly I had to leave the Netherlands to return to Australia by myself. I did have some issues on the flight back too.

Immigration Dramas

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Things are not quite going to plan with regards to staying and working in the Netherlands.

Immigration Dramas

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Things are not quite going to plan with regards to staying and working in the Netherlands.

Whanganui Canoe Trip

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This is the story of the biggest adventure we had in our entire New Zealand travel holiday! We are just glad to have survived it!

A bit of snow

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I have not seen a lot of snow in my life, so it was a big deal for me when it happened in Christchurch!

Yet more blog changes

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Some behind the scenes changes of my blog web site

Wanaka

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Details our travels to Wanaka and the Rob Roy hike

Fox Glacier

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Several days at Fox Glacier and taking in the local sights.

Frans Josef Glacier

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Details about the three days we spent at Frans Joseph glacier. Stunning photos and views

Greymouth to Frans Josef

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A pretty dull drive from Greymouth to Frans Josef. But it picked up dramatically towards the end!

Greymouth

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It was a stunning drive from Westport to Greymouth.

Westport

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Not a great deal happened on the journey to Westport and while we were there.

Nelson Lakes National Park

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Details the adventures and mishaps we had at Nelson Lakes right after the Abel Tasman hike.

Abel Tasman Coastal Track

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Big blog post about our first great hike! the Abel Tasman Costal Track!

Welcome to the South Island

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After a while in Wellington, it was time to say goodbye (for now) to our relatives and move on to the South Island.

Windy Wellington

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Catching up with Jeff, Cath, Jarrod and Jack in Wellington

The long road south

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Details of our trip from Auckland to Wellington

A minor setback

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A small thing causes a few delays to our trip

New Laptop

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Investigations into getting a new laptop

New hearing aids!

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Not many good audiologists out there any more.

Create your own books!

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How you can create awesome and professional looking books from your computer!

Water Woes

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Cheap and nasty cost cutting during one of Brisbane’s worst droughts

New Camera Gear

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Details of my new camera gear

Weekend in Sydney

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Summary of weekend photography trip to Sydney with Bronwen and John

Dirt Bike Shots

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Testing out new camera gear by taking photos of a mate’s dirt bike in action