NZ Bound

Around February 2008, I was all mysterious about why I was heading back to the UK. I had a few motives for doing so. I had an interview for the JET programme, teaching English in Japan for up to three years. I was successful, and was offered a spot, but I ended up turning it [...]

A few things to catch up on as I’ve been a bit busy and slack over the blogging thing over the past few days and weeks.
I’m no longer on stand-by to go to Victoria as they look like they’re wanting to keep things in-house for a while – according to my sources anyway. On the [...]

The last couple of weeks have been held together by a lone EEE PC 701 4G, little trooper that it is. It all started just after the beginning of January when I picked up that the Apple NZ store had started stocking new Aluminium MacBooks on the refurb part of their site. Now i picked [...]

Just a brief update of day 2 as I found much more of today was over my head and for a more specialised coder type hacker. Roberto Liverani, again, from security-assessment.com from gave a demonstration on Black SEO exposed. This is the art of search engine deoptimisation. Instead of protocols to improve you ranking in [...]

As a bit of a counterpoint to yesterday’s daytime activities at Kiwicon II, I gave the tokemon hacking drinking game a miss and went to see Earth with Kate at the Penthouse in Brooklyn. I’m more of a hacktivist that a technically knowledgable person – I wouldn’t have a clue – though would love to [...]

Today was Kiwicon II – and it was a busy event – lots of speakers and a lot of delegates, mostly dressed in black as you’d expect. I’d better get myself into the hacktivist uniform tomorrow – I felt disappointingly underdressed today – I might even shave a goatie beard back in especially, Anyway, after [...]

Last week I attended Software Freedom Day in Wellington, directly after finding about the Games, Geeks and Gadgets event. Both were run by Unlimited Potential and pretty well too, at a very human level in terms of scale with a friendly bunch of people attending to boot. Both of those events were of interested [...]