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What I'm Doing...

  • "Why John Key should be careful what he wishes for when questioning foreign ownership of NZ land | interest.co.nz" http://j.mp/cfpVHo 1 hr ago
  • RT @LATimesbooks: Amazon introduces $139 Kindle. Cheap -- but is it fun?: Amazon.com has introduced a Kindle for $139. <think I want one! 1 hr ago
  • Have 16GB microSD card for HTC sense - busy copying files over 1 hr ago
  • "Second Round of iPhone 4 Launches Begins in Australia - Mac Rumors" http://j.mp/9uUuaI (But not NZ yet ...'shipping error' blamed) 2 hrs ago
  • At Parliament last night. A pleasant eve aside from clearing press lines http://twitgoo.com/1ev32a 10 hrs ago
  • Taking a break in cafe in Portcullis House. Much vaunted flat white is decidedly average 10 hrs ago
  • iPhone4 no longer on VodafoneNZ website? 14 hrs ago
  • iPhone4 delayed in NZ? No longer sold exclusively through Vodafone NZ? 14 hrs ago
  • 8 days til we leave for holiday/work trip in NZ. Can't come quick enough #fb 14 hrs ago
  • BBC News - Time to 'move beyond' Asbos, says home secretary May http://bit.ly/cibLJ3 1 day ago
  • BBC News - Pakistan crash raises questions about air safety http://bit.ly/chjeOU 1 day ago
  • RT @nzherald Today's OCR hike is an endorsement of market sentiment, writes Brian Fallow: http://nzh.tw/10662058 < NOT so thrilled 1 day ago
  • RT @freezingkiwis Do you know how hard it is to find a cafe in Wellington that has WiFi? Bloody nuts. Settled in Joes Garage. Good people. 1 day ago
  • "It's India's poor who need British aid, not its military and business elites | Pankaj Mishra | The Guardian" http://j.mp/azyJpe 1 day ago
  • "MacRumors iPhone Blog: iOS 4 Adoption on iPhones Hits 50%" http://j.mp/9FMrCe 1 day ago
  • Pleasant evening by the Thames in Parliament even if I was clearing press lines half the time. Some on use of pandemic flu vaccines in Oz 1 day ago
  • Crikey, it might be recess but the work is unrelenting 1 day ago
  • RT @BR3NDA so, tonight i somehow got on to Council for New Zealand Open Source Society....< congrats 1 day ago
  • Gasping for a cup uf tea 2 days ago
  • I meant, I have noticed very little activity concerning #nhswhitepaper on twitter over last 3 days. Which I suppose is interesting in itself 2 days ago
  • More updates...

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Goodbye NZ, hello again London: For a while at least

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 down. [...]

Status report – Sarb, model WLG101

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 other [...]

PowerBook v MacBook – Old school rules!

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 up [...]

Kiwicon 2008 – Day 2

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 Google [...]

Watching Earth, listening to idiocy

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 learn [...]

Kiwicon 2008 Day 1

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 Metlstorm [...]

Tech Wellington

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 [...]