• If you’re in town before 6pm today, sneak into the Soft­ware Free­dom Day at the Michael Fowl­er Centre for a free Havana cof­fee. Don’t tell them that I sent you though.
  • The pre­vi­ously men­tioned Kayu Manis (you’re a manus!) – the Indonesian/Malaysian res­taur­ant on Cuba Street is now BYO, which makes its $18 mains much more pal­at­able. Also, the food is super fresh tast­ing, and the atmo­sphere is much nicer than your stand­ard Malay­si­an joint, so we sug­gest that you check it out.
  • The fre­quently apo­strophe-cata­stroph­ic Elec­tric Aven­ue now sports a ban­ner advert­ising its music quiz on Thursday nights as being the only music quiz in town. Appar­ently Abel Smith Street, home to the music quiz on Thursday nights at the Cross is a sub­urb.
  • Radio Act­ive 89FM’s Handle the Jan­dal, the nation­wide DIY music video com­pet­iton, is back for 2008 and is call­ing for entries for this year’s com­pet­i­tion, to be held Novem­ber 27 at Wel­ling­ton’s St James Theatre. Go to Radio Act­ive’s site for more inform­a­tion.
  • Don’t for­get to sign up for Bowl­ing League.