Archive for the ‘New Zealand’ Category
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
It was my pleasure to address the National and State Librarians of Australasia on the eve of their strategic planning meeting in Auckland at the start of November this year. I have been involved in libraries for a few years now, and am always humbled by the expertise, hard ...
Posted in New Zealand, Technology | 16 Comments »
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Pondering the New Zealand fishing industry, I had an insight today. Forgive me if it's old news to you.
You have three options to make more money:
Lower costs.
Sell more of the same stuff.
Make new types of stuff to sell.
In quota-limited systems such as fishing, you can't catch more fish because ...
Posted in Business, New Zealand | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
There's a trend now to question the value of a university education. It used to be that simply possessing a university degree gained you access to a Better Class of Job. That is no longer the case; now you have access to The Same Class of Unemployment Benefit. ...
Posted in Business, New Zealand, Personal | 5 Comments »
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
Our band has two gigs coming up in Auckland and we'd love to see you there!
We play The Thirsty Dog on K Rd on Sunday, and the set is shaping up to be a good 'un: the songs we were playing last year have really bedded down nicely. We ...
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
New Zealand has, for a long time, marketed itself as 100% Pure. In the last year, this slogan has taken a beating. The climax seems to have been when BBC Hardtalk interviewer Stephen Sackur gave Prime Minister John Key a colossal roasting over the discrepancy between reality and ...
Posted in New Zealand, Rant | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
This post is about my 3 March 2011 appearance on Nine to Noon on Radio New Zealand. Listen to the show in MP3 and OGG. My notes below were made during research for the show, but we often depart from the script. In particular, this week I ...
Posted in New Zealand, Radio, Technology | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
We're counting down the days here at the mothership, getting ready for the 5th Kiwi Foo Camp. It's hard to believe this is year five already, the time's flown by. I've had a few people ask for more details than are on the web site, so I thought ...
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Text of notes for a talk given at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the New Zealand Computer Society in Rotorua, 17 September 2010. I will link to video when it's posted by the conference organizers.
Hello everyone. Thank you for the kind introduction, and thank you to the New ...
Posted in Business, New Zealand, Technology | 4 Comments »
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Our local newspaper, Mahurangi Matters, had this great piece of short news (sadly not online yet):
Local firemen recently responded to a 3.30am call "power causing concern". The homeowner could hear a humming sound seemingly coming from her bathroom wall. The firemen were all set to knock down walls ...
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Last month I was honoured to join Silverstripe as a director. Silverstripe makes an open source Content Management System backed by Sapphire, an elegant PHP framework, builds websites for NZ and international customers, and has a new performance monitoring product that's rapidly gaining traction. I was on their ...
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