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It 's like a washing machine out there , steep 6-foot chop generated by wash , coming from any direction . " Anyway , there was a good audience including underage youth as well as computer scientists ; Ivan 's ploy may be working . On Dec 22 's Weblife page ( p.21 ) , under Links worth a visit , get this : " As the post-food lull kicks in , try a Queen-style Christmas message with New Zealand 's Witten family , who round up their year , every year , at www.cs.waikato.ac.nz / ~ ihw / xmas / xmas.99.html . Hobart , in particular , is a most attractive small city , with a mountain towering over it that you can drive up and look down from-not unlike Cape Town , in fact . We marvelled at massive blowholes , walked to the celebrated " Wineglass Bay " on the Freycinet peninsula ( we think Matai Bay , described above , is even nicer ) , strolled around Salamanca market in Hobart , ate and drank well , and generally had a great time . - - we were swallows , there only for the summer , but trying to pose as indigenous natives . The next day we sailed to Tiritiri Matangi , which , though previously farmed , is being rehabilitated with lush native bush and rare native birds . Our captain , recalling days in racing dinghy , is weaving in and out of the fleet with his accustomed accuracy and dexterity , when he discovers that super-yachts are surrounded by a ring of un-confidence . Far from simply maintaining the status quo as Pam had anticipated , there was real decision-making to be done , and the Government did n't make things any easier by rescaling the aides ' grading and salaries and also restructuring the children 's financial support , all of which meant long and difficult consultations and discussion , and huge amounts of extra paperwork . Because of general dissatisfaction with the way things are run by the new regime , there have been more than the usual number of departures . Imagine a hundred thousand books in tottering heaps on the floor in a room maybe 10 feet by 15 , threaded by a snaky passageway that you can just squeeze through to a miniscule desk at the back . There they have various eagles including Sarah , a magnificent golden eagle ; all sorts of owls including the cute little ground-nesting burrowing owl ( did you know that a 70 cm tall great horned owl weighs only half a kg or so , and its neck , which looks enormous , is only one cm thick inside all those feathers ) ; Snoopy the celebrity vulture ( remember the movie Shanghai Noon , where Jackie Chan is buried up to his neck in the sand and a vulture pecks his head ?