About the Author
I’m 34 years old and I live in Wellington, not far from one of those “Shoreline 1840″ markers. When I’m not writing stuff here, I work in the exciting, fast-paced world of television as a web editor. (Wanna know what it’s like to work in television? Watch ““Broadcast News“. You cannot have a normal relationship.)
I was born and raised on the mean streets and/or rural environs of Hamilton. Eventually I escaped to Auckland, had a wee spell in Melbourne, returned to Auckland and spend many years in the shadow of Mt Eden, and am now putting down roots in the nation’s capital.
Sometimes I talk about internetty and pop culturey and writerly things, like at the National Young Writers Festival, The Great Blend and Radio NZ National.
You can see my photos at Flickr, and I even have an IMDB profile.
About the Website
I could say I’ve been blogging since 1996, but as the word blog wasn’t created until 1999, I technically can’t claim that. But what I have been doing since June of 1996 is writing stuff and putting it on my personal website.
Inspired by people such as Justin Hall, Rebecca Eisenberg, and the posse at Suck.com, I started with a handful of pages hosted with my local ISP, and I just kept writing more stuff and adding it the website.
In 1998 I splashed out and got my own domain name, secret-passage.com and realised that it’s really hard to pronounce domain names with punctuation in them.
In December 2002, I got tired of constantly uploading static HTML pages to my website and opened an account at LiveJournal and started writing stuff there. It ended up being my main outlet for online writing, though it wasn’t quite how I intended it.
And now I’ve finally managed to amalgamate it all together in big happy interweb experience.