Archive for the ‘New Zealand’ Category
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I see in Rod Drury's blog that National have released their first real economic policy and it's to do with funding fibre-to-the-home in NZ. It's good! Anyone who travels knows how dire the bandwidth situation is here, and it's worse on the ground.
For me, bandwidth = productivity. ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
A client made the decision to use Telecom as their web site host. I argued against it because the price differential was so great between Telecom and, well, anyone else. The client's management decided to go with solid blue chip Telecom. The service we've had from them ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Julie Starr faced an interesting problem recently: how to explain RSS, aggregators, even Twitter to a room full of journalism students ... without slides or a net connection. In attempting this, as she says, she "found a new respect for teachers this week". As a recovering teacher (or, ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I often joke that Foo Camp ("Friends of O'Reilly") should be Font Camp (Friends of Nat Torkington) in New Zealand. I love typography and was delighted to find "The Font Scene in New Zealand", a list of typographers and fonts made by New Zealanders or by New Zealand companies. ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Congrats to Sue Tyler and the Ponoko team, and all the others who were interviewed by Peter Griffin for the Idealog issue focusing on craft. The article (which will be online in a few weeks) has photos of various Ponoko-made goods, including a necklace of sheep which looked awfully ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
About two weeks ago, my uncle Zom got a little carried away with some repairs in the cabin and drove the family fishing boat ("Foam") onto some rocks. Getting it off damaged the propeller and keel, so ten days ago he and I took advantage of the time, tide, ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
I haven't blogged in a while. That doesn't mean things are bad. In fact, it's the complete opposite. Something happened around September, the end of my last trip away for 2006--something good. We just clicked. We went from feeling like strangers in a strange land to ...
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
I just got back from a week in the US for Foo Camp, where I had a great time shopping two ideas around: New Zealand can be a hub of innovation, and Kids aren't being turned onto science and technology as careers Re: the ...
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
Before I left for my last trip to the US, I went to a school board meeting where a program called Super Kids was discussed. It's a kids Christian program that wanted to use the House Of Learning (aka "library") at our local primary school after school hours. ...
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Great news! The house in Colorado is under contract, they inspect tomorrow morning, and then hopefully it's smooth sailing to closure. This is it: if it falls through, I'm renting it out. But if it sells (even if for much less than we were hoping to get) it's ...
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