Hello from New Zealand!

[Sparky]

Glad you're enjoying NZ. I came out here as my girlfriend is a Kiwi - she'd been in the UK for the past 9 years and wanted to return home, so I came with her. I'm enjoying it here so far, but am currently looking for an IT job in Nelson - there don't seem to be many!

Nelson ?!?!  Of course there's no IT jobs there!  Get your bum up to Auckland or Wellington .. out in the sticks the sheep have no use for IT  :-)

Also look at www.seek.co.nz  Lots of jobs listed there .. ignore the ones in the UK though :-D
What do you do in IT ?  Any field you specialise in ? (apart from antique computers)

[InTheSand]

Baa!!

We're kind of based in Nelson now as my girlfriend has already got a job here (plus some of her family is here and we both liked Nelson anyway). So... I realise 99% of the IT jobs are in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch but there's not much I can do!

Thanks for the Seek link, I've already registered on the IT Seek site. I guess it's just a case of continuing to look as things do come up from time to time in the local newspapers.

My "specialist subject" also doesn't help me - I've been doing Lotus Notes/Domino development work for the last 10+ years. That's starting to disappear in the UK, and the situation for it is far worse in NZ... I could convert to VB and/or VB.NET easily enough though, or could do PC support stuff if I had to.

I've not given up hope yet, I'll just have to be patient!

Cheers,

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

@Castellen:
They do appear to be the same, with the PS/2 socket's extra pin being unconnected:
http://pinouts.ru/data/MiniDinToDinKeyboard_pinout.shtml

... but I guess you probably already know that given your electronics background!  :-)

Cheers,

 - Ali