(not-so) secret Wellingtonista handshake
Okay, here it is.
So, you start with your hand in the ‘W for Wellington’ shape. Connect with your partner following the Welly footpath rule of staying left (ie. your leftmost finger should be on the outside of their rightmost finger). The join should be made up to the middle knuckle. Then (the coup-de-grace!) curl the ends of your fingers over. You’re now making a symbolic representation of the hilly Wellington landscape. Slide the fingers apart (symbolic representation of a catastrophic earthquake, if you’re so inclined), and you’re done.
So cool.
Welcome to me
It is time to reveal my last name, and join the Wellingtonista.
My usual cosy pad is over at Wanda Harland. Generally I write complete crap, so it is surprising to find myself on such a fabulous website as this.
I promise to try and resist writing about the price of beans at Pak n Save, while keeping it real peeps (did I mention I’m a gangsta rapper?).
God. Enough. They’re going to sack me before I even get started, and I value my corner suite at the Wellingtonista Towers too much to stuff it up at this stage.
blognapped!
So, there I was, idly trying to export the old Wellingtonista blogspot entries across to our snappy new dot com address, and failing miserably.
I decided to call it a night, and switch the publishing target back to the wellingtonista blogspot address, as my co-contributors were doubtless champing at the bit to post their latest, insightful thoughts on our fair city onto the site.
But, upon toggling from the FTP publishing option back to the publish-to-blogspot option, something weird happened: “Sorry, this blog address is not available.”
Yes indeed, in the couple of hours I’d had the blogspot address offline, someone had come in and blognapped it, replacing our lovingly crafted site with a spamblog.
Arseholes.
Anyway, this has but accelerated our site shifting plans, so, farewell blogspot, and hello wellingtonista.com.
Those of you with RSS links shouldn’t have to change anything, but if you’ve got a link to us on your website, we’d appreciate it if you could update to the new dot com version of the address.
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