I hate fax machines. Anyone using one should stop immediately. I thought they stopped making them in 1997, but it turns out that people actually still use them in this modern age. Once I rang up my bank – which prides itself on its technological innovations – with a query. The call centre guy offered [...]
The Page 123 meme was flying around LiveJournal tonight and I was tagged twice. Demands were made that I ought to… 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions. 5. [...]
Last night was another Public Address Great Blend event. This time it was held at the brand new venue atop the Auckland Museum. Initially the splendid panoramic views of Auckland city offered consisted of grey, rainy streets, but once the sun went down, the city lights looked completely awesome. First on the evening’s programme were [...]
I spent the last few days on Waiheke Island with the whanau. Man, it was hot. It didn’t feel like Auckland – more like a tropical island. While Waiheke is rapidly being overrun by holiday homes and vineyards, there is still a core of residents, many of whom look like they live there because they [...]
So I’d been wanting to upload a video to YouTube – or YouChoob, as we say in Aotearoa New Zealand – but I didn’t have anything suitable. But then I realised that among my bits and pieces, I had a short film dating from 2001. It was the result of Dylan and Ryan and me [...]
It has been brought to my attention that Prime Devastation, Hamilton’s hardest working metal band, who also take time out for family/work/sporting commitments, are now on MySpace. Fans of the ‘Dev have been asking for this for a long time, so it will be good news to both PD fans and the metaller community in [...]