London for Easter Weekend was a great idea. My sister Kerryn and her husband Haydn were great hosts, and there was plenty to do. We managed to catch up with old friends, eat ice-cream in Wimbledon Village, watch a bunch of films, perfect the coffee-making
There have long been professional services that will build you a website to order. Businesses should of course make the most of them. But these days, the rest of us can achieve a great deal by putting together a portfolio solution made up of free services
Nothing says 'you're a long way from home' like being live on Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on National Radio as a 'foreign correspondent' before you've even had your dinner on a Friday night. We talked about new technology, this blog, podcasting, Birmin
When I was growing up, I used to watch a lot of sci-fi. It usually concerned itself with the question of what life would be like in the future - specifically, beyond the year 2000: silver jumpsuits, rocket cars, jetpacks, videophones and meals-in-a-pill w
I've got a funded research project that I need some technical assistance with. I've got a bit of money to spend on a coder who can cobble together a Frankenstein piece of software with a friendly user interface, built out of other bits of open source code
I am irrationally irritated by poor spelling - and never more so than when I am the perpetrator of the error. You'd think after all this time on the internet, I'd be acclimatised to it, but it still bugs the hell out of me. So this is an apology for a spe
BT have been busy upgrading the lines in these parts, and from the 11th of this month, existing users (at least, those on the plan I'm currently on) will be upgraded at no cost from 2MB to 8MB broadband. Three more sleeps...
Sandi Thom was approached by Sony BMG and offered a major label record contract after she sang in a live webcast from her home in London for 21 consecutive nights and gained an audience and fan base of over 100,000 people.
There are certain things students should do, but don't. Simple, obvious things that would make their lives better and their time at university more rewarding (and I'm not just talking about marks here).
I've spent a large part of the afternoon learning how to use a computer operating system I was previously a stranger to. Now that it's almost time to start getting dinner on, I think I've pretty much sussed it. Not bad, considering the last operating syst
Just got back from the Post Office, where there was a significant parcel of goodies from New Zealand waiting to be collected (Thanks, Jicki & Steve!). Some of the best things you can't get here in the UK were waiting, somewhat battered from the journey, b
The Dubbers are London for Easter weekend, visiting family, looking after baby nephew Shay, and catching up with a couple of expat-NZ friends. The visit tied in nicely with something else I wanted to do. I spent yesterday afternoon at the BBC, getting the
The more astute reader of this blog may have noticed a couple of minor changes to the layout. I'm going for an increasingly minimalist presentation. I'm trying to ditch everything that's surplus to requirements. Along with that has come a decision about w
I'll be DJ-ing at Don Salvo's at the Mailbox tomorrow evening at a charity fundraiser for Parkinson's Awareness week. The event is called 'Passion for Parkinsons' - and I think it'll be a fairly relaxed and quiet affair, which is helpful - since I'll be p
May is New Zealand Music Month and to kick it off, the New Zealand Government has announced a deal with commercial broadcasters CanWest to save the ailing all-NZ music radio station Kiwi FM.
Well, I've been cross about the whole 'Kiwi FM being given public frequencies' debacle over the past 24 hours, and I've been receiving a whole lot of hand-wringing emails and comments on the blog that generally go along the lines of "Steve Maharey has bet
They do the dates back to front in America. So last night, sometime past bedtime, their clocks struck that historic moment: 01:02:03 04/05/06. Apparently that's not going to happen again for quite some time.
