Super Golden Saturday - New Zealand's most successful day in Olympic history...

New Zealand has won more than one gold medal in a day in an Olympic Games before - Peter Snell and Murray Halberg achieved this on the track in Rome within an hour in 1960, but have never won five medals in one day before.

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Birthdays, birthdays...

When you get to my age birthdays come a little too quickly. One closer to the last, perhaps?

I used to go out and celebrate, then later it was a family occasion to be shared with my wife and children.

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NZ rowers were brought back to earth with the proverbial bang after mediocre semi-final performances at the Beijing games.

There are a host of puns all sitting there to be used: Its not over until the fat lady sings is one that comes to mind.

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Our Kiwi rowers have real chances of some Olympic medals. Six teams or individuals won their heats, and two others came second.

Our female single sculler came third in her quarter final, and three times world champion Mahe Drysdale won his narrowly. Other finals later in th week.

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Having my Google Adsense account disabled will affect a lot of my future blogging.

It is a fact that many of my blogging accounts were set up to promote my Google Adsense account; even my Blogger Party account was originally in that category before a number of sites such as Blogfeast were closed down. Since then BP has become one of my regular blogging sites, along with Blogevolve, Communati and a few others.

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New Zealand was attacked by weather bombs during the last week...

NZ was attacked by weather bombs during the last week, from the north to the south, from the west to the east. Storms have ravaged the country, with high winds, heavy and driving rain; trees were uprooted by the score; heavy seas prevented water being drained off in some places. Many homes have been damaged, some inhabitable. In the north thousands of homes have been without power for days on end, and some for many days to come because of falling power lines, fallen trees and slips. Mother Nature has been in a foul mood this week!

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We have all been attacked by a spammer. Just answer in some way to force their post down in the list.

Where is that blasted Admin?

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Google Australia has announced the launch of 'Streetview' for Australia, featuring a new feature for Google Maps that enables the user to view and navigate 360 degrees.

Street level imagery of Australia's cities, towns,regional and remote areas is now possible. Compromising or personal photos will be imaged out.

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Iran tells US and major powers to kiss my nuclear butt...

Iran said on Saturday it would not back down "one iota" in its nuclear row with major powers, voicing defiance on the day of an informal deadline set by the West over Tehran's disputed atomic ambitions.