Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Ah… Piha, the west coast on the North Island. Just close enough to Auckland to be part of the big smoke, isolated enough to be a rural hippy hamlet. Plus more architects per square metre than anywhere else in the world. Every second house on the way down Piha road seems to harbour an architects studio.

Tuesday, February 11, 2003
I’ve been playing with the panoramic facility on my new digital camera and it works beautifully. The Ixus is set up to take overlapping pictures and software comes with it that stitches it all together. Here’s the view from Pukematekeo the summit of the Waitakere ranges. (It’s a popup and fairly large ~1Mb)