Maungatua

December 30 2016 · landscape-photography dunedin

A day walk up Maungatua from the Taieri Plains.

Over the Taieri

Over the Taieri


Lake Marian

October 30 2016 · landscape-photography southland

An enjoyable 2 hour walk up to Lake Marian.

Lake Marian

Lake Marian


Doubtful Sound

A trip through Doubtful Sound on the cruise ship.

Deep Cove

Deep Cove


Mavora

I spent a couple of days around the Mavora lakes. When I first got there it was cloudy and very still - bloody magical. I walked up and around the eastern side of the north lake. This was the location in the Lord of the Rings films after the death of Boromir when Frodo and Sam depart in the boat. …


Testing the Status of a SOCKS5 Proxy in Python

September 11 2012 · tech python

I’ve been working on a proxy testing application in Clojure and have been thinking about porting it to Python. There are a couple of Python libraries that I could use to test the status of a SOCKS proxy. PyCurl is a Python wrapper of the C library curl, this makes it easy to do HTTP requests by …