Te Ahumairangi or the hill with many names

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The words on Twitter were that there is a new lookout built on the Northland end of what formerly referred to as Tinakori Hill, and will be officially opened tomorrow. The sources such as Wellington City Council and Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand inform us the area now should be known as Te Ahumairangi Hill.

I live on the north western flank of Te Ahumairangi Hill and, as a local waker, consider it as my home patch. In the last four months or so, I've written two posts about walks on Te Ahumairangi, one about Stellin Memorial Park the other about the old route up from Monmouth way. Yet I did not know a major construction was going on the very area. I felt a little bit embarrassed about my ignorance, and decided to go find out where exactly it was and what it was like. …

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Opera tip [2] – My Opera profile tweaks

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Ever wanted to change your My Opera location to something fancy, or needed to adjust your time zone because you live in that special corner of the world?

This tip is about how to tweak your My Opera location, time zone, etc, including the step by step guide to set time zone to UTC+13 for those live in the most advanced country in the world[/FONT][/B]. 😀 In six hours,the daylight saving will start in Aotearoa/NZ, but currently there is no provision to set the time zone to NZDST's UTC+13hours. …

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