Western Europe 2018 Trip – Part Four: Berlin

August 3, 2020 by Brad

Following almost a week in the UK it was time to move onto Continental Europe, with the first stop being Berlin.

Western Europe 2018 Trip – Part Three: Edinburgh

May 24, 2020 by Brad

The next leg of my journey was to catch the Flying Scotsman train from London’s King Cross station to Edinburgh’s Waverley station. The modern day version of the Flying Scotsman is very comfortable and had onboard WIFI the entire way – useless for anyone who gets bored looking out the window (I’m not one to get bored looking out windows).

Western Europe 2018 Trip – Part Two: London

March 8, 2020 by Brad

I spent two and a half days in London catching up a kiwi friend and co-incidentally my Godparents whom happened to also be visiting at the same time.

Western Europe 2018 Trip – Part One: Sydney to London

January 26, 2020 by Brad

In late 2018 I travelled to Europe to attend a friend’s wedding in Germany. During the trip I also visited the UK and Portugal.

Usually I travel to Europe on Etihad, but for this trip I went with Emirates as I was travelling on part of the trip with other friends as well.

Photos: Rotorua, Wai-O-Tapu, Hamilton Gardens 2018

January 18, 2020 by Brad

In Mid-2018 I did a weekend trip to New Zealand, in this slideshow are a few of the shots from an overnight trip form Auckland.

Lady Knox Geyser – Wai-O-Tapu
Hamilton Gardens
Kuirau Park
Kuirau Park
Wai-O-Tapu Champagne Pool
Steaming Hills

Goals for 2020

January 1, 2020 by Brad

Go to Europe
Read 12 Books
Save 20% of After Tax Income
Catch up on two years of trip blogging and photo editing

A Short Review of 2019

December 31, 2019 by Brad

At the start of this year I set myself four goals:

Read 12 Books

I read 20 books! This is twice as many as 2018

Make a 5% return on savings and investments

I made a 5.2% average return (unweighted, includes investments held for less than 6 months) on my investments. Savings accounts much less as repeated rate cuts hurt my savings growth.

Git Cherry Picking Across Forked Repos and Empty Commits

November 2, 2019 by Brad

Recently I found myself in a situation where I wanted to bring in a specific upstream commit into a forked repository. Although these repos share a common history, the two repos had diverged enough that it wasn’t a straight-forward cherry-pick between branches. Instead, with clones of the two repositories I managed to cherry-pick as follows:

git --git-dir=..//.git format-patch -k -1 --stdout | git am -3 -k

A Quick San Francisco Get Away

July 14, 2019 by Brad

In late 2017 I flew to San Francisco for a very short work trip. I then had one day spare where I headed out with a friend to Muir Woods and the Marin Headlands.

Below are a few photos and videos from the trip.