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NZ Healthcare

At the New Zealand Open Source Awards, David Cunliffe (the then Minister of Health as well as of IT) literally tapped me on the shoulder and asked whether I’d be interested in serving on HISAC, …

Good one, National Library!

My friend Aaron Swartz writes about the increasingly-evil OCLC: Not satisfied with controlling the world’s largest source of book information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. …

Nine to Noon: 30 Oct 2008

Today I was on the National Radio show Nine To Noon. It was nerve-wracking beforehand, but fun once it started. The podcast of my appearance needs some context: she’d been teasing future …

Ode to Auckland

Auckland Even when I’m well stoned on a tab of LSD or Indian grass, you still look to me like an elephant’s arsehole surrounded by blue-black haemorrhoids, The sound of the opening and …

Plone in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch

November 7th is World Plone Day, when the Plone community will run outreach events around the world to “promote and educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using Plone in …

Two Posts On The Meltdown

In case you’re interested but don’t follow O’Reilly Radar, I’ve recently made a few posts there about the mortgage dramas: Effect of the Depresson on Technology The Connected …

Cybernetics Quotes

Reading A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory, I found some thought-provoking and sometimes inspirational quotes. I’ve collected them below: “When we try to pick up anything by …

More on the bizdev shortage in NZ

James McGlinn emailed me a great reply to my piece on the business cofounder shortage in NZ, and he’s finally posted it. You should read it because I agree with everything he says.