I have done another one of those cut ‘n’ paste “memes”. It shows that I am “actively participating” in an internet community, which is apparently what all the kids are doing “these days”. Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on [...]
I have friends in other countries who are currently despairing at the Fußball/Football/Futbol-mania that is currently gripping their nation. So it makes me a little bit relieved that while New Zealand prides itself as being a proud sporting nation, it’s not actually good enough at football to have even qualified for the World Cup. Best [...]
If you are one of those Auckland-based interweb types who is a regular reader of the Public Address blogs and is subsequently planning on going along to the Great Blend event this Saturday, you will be no doubt be excited and delighted to learn that I will be now part of the panel discussing internet [...]
Harvestbird tagged me to do one of those list things. Homie don’t usually play that, but this one was fun, and if it helps just one person give up drugs, well, then it will have all been worth it. List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have [...]
The final part of Tales of the Old Skool, brings us an incident even older than my webpage. This goes all the way back to 1995 and involves a hobby horse, Marcus Lush and an email. Remember Newsnight on TV2? It was a late-night (10.30, usually) news programme that was broadcast in the mid-90s. The [...]
While I’m doing this celebrating-10-years thing, I though I’d better tell the tale of the David Hasselhoff Experience, lest it be lost to the interweb forever. My website had been up and running for a month and I was bored. I’d learned this new HTML thing and wanted a new project, so I decided to [...]
Right about now, mid-June, is the 10th anniversary of… actually, I’m not sure what of. What I do know is that in mid-June, 1996, I uploaded the very first version of my website. I’d got online in about September 1995 and I’d been an admirer of the websites of people like Justin Hall and the [...]
The biggest load of crap that has come out of the Auckland power cut discussion is the idea that this somehow proves that New Zealand is actually a Third World country. For example, there’s this quote in the Herald today from Heart of the City (Auckland CBD retailers association) CEO Alex Swney. “Rather than try [...]
I woke up this morning at about 8.30, except I didn’t know what the time was because my clock radio screen was blank. After making sure it wasn’t my fault (power bill – paid; fuses – all present and accounted for), I rang Vector. I knew something was up when instead of getting through to [...]
I’ve spent the last few day on the couch with a box of Kleenex aloe vera tissues, sneezing and coughing and generally feeling awful. I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to make it to the 48Hours Auckland final, but I decided that it wouldn’t really be much different from sitting on the couch watching [...]