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| Thinking outside the square red box Essays I'd like to think there are some visionaries in New Zealand Post who are thinking outside the square red mailbox. | ||
| Harnessing your web history Geek bits A client wanted to put her browsing history to work. She wanted her own website to display the URLs of selected other sites every time she visited them. | ||
| Designed to death Essays The design train gets bogged axle-deep in the mud of additional requirements. | ||
| Tough Jobs for open development tools Geek bits The web needs open technologies; the future is convergence and interoperability, not closed shop silos. | ||
| Two wrongs don't make a copyright Essays Even George Orwell couldn't have thought of a better threat to keep the populace in line. | ||
| March 2010 Photographs A fountain without water, a shine with a view. | ||
| Inside the Android Dream Geek bits It was the G1 Dream's functionality that attracted me to it in the first place, and I don't really want a phone I have mollycoddle. | ||
| February 2010 Photographs Water at Waitonga, sunshine in New Plymouth | ||
| January 2010 Photographs Towers, walls, doors and beaches. | ||
| December 2009 Photographs The bay. Golden. | ||
| Discovering Golden Bay Essays Without resorting to hyperbole it's difficult to describe how lovely I found Golden Bay, the people, the lifestyle. | ||
| Open source - geeks only? Geek bits There are too many exciting projects which suffer poor or non-existent documentation and successfully avoid mass adoption as a result. | ||
| The dumbing down of language Essays Thinking and language are tightly coupled: without the language of algebra, would e = mc˛? | ||
| November 2009 Photographs Taupo Public Gardens and Whanganui River | ||
| September 2009 Photographs Art deco in Hawkes Bay, glass in Wanganui | ||
| August 2009 Photographs Reptile environments in central and southern New Zealand | ||
| July 2009 Photographs Water and light, Wellington and Wanganui. | ||
| June 2009 Photographs Getting churched in the Wairarapa. | ||
| National character: liability? Essays After a century and a half of optimistic ingenuity it's about time for a review. | ||
| Postal audacity Essays Is New Zealand Post's survey an attempted end-run around existing consumer privacy protections? | ||
| Spicy tuna bake Essays One warning: don't make it unless you have guests, it's very more-ish. | ||
| Relatively absolute paths Geek bits It sorts out path issues within an installation, between installations, and even gets Javascript references right. | ||
| Serendipitous SQL Geek bits Tips and tricks for your SQL and mine. | ||
| Localhost root selector Geek bits The logical and simple solution was to write a utility that would edit the DocumentRoot setting. | ||
| May 2009 Photographs Canterbury, the West Coast and Auckland | ||
| April 2009 Photographs South Canterbury and Turakina, with just a touch of Wanganui and Christchurch. | ||
| March 2009 Photographs Wellington and Wanganui. | ||
| An opportunity passes Essays It's not often a nation has the opportunity to forge a link in the chain of national identity with such a simple decision. | ||
| Multiple file uploads Geek bits File uploading from a web page is straightforward; add a file input control, a submit button, and you're done. Uploading multiple files at once is a little more challenging. | ||
| Dynamic email signatures Geek bits The following project could be adapted to most email clients with a little ingenuity. It allows me to generate dynamic email signatures, and at the same time avoid duplicating and maintaining data. | ||
| February 2009 Photographs Wellington and Wanganui. | ||
| January 2009 Photographs Wanganui, Picton and Wellington. | ||
| Offshore Weather Music I wrote this song in the winter of 2007, based on some interesting guitar chords; E-shapes with fingering variations. | ||
| December 2008 Photographs Leigh, Wanganui and Picton. | ||
| Start Out Tall Music The hookline in Start Out Tall was written in 1976. It's been hanging around awhile but I've never done anything with it until now. I like the way it lopes along without effort. | ||
| Win Music Win grew from what are now the first lines of the first and second verses; the inherent contradictions appealed to me. | ||
| November 2008 Photographs Wanganui, National Park and Lake Taupo. | ||
| Call It Love Music I wrote this after reading about an American fundamentalist organisation which claims to change the orientation of gays and lesbians. | ||
| Turn Around I Fall Music An immediate hit live at the Adelaide the night I wrote it in 2007, this song is a series of apparent contradictions which make perfect sense once you have the context | ||
| October 2008 Photographs Wanganui, Wellington, Featherston and Greytown. | ||
| Wairarapa weekend Essays I'm finding the attraction of the Wairarapa stronger with each visit. To me it seems to offer an enviable lifestyle, and the relative ease of travelling to Wellington increases the appeal. | ||
| Why you should ignore the gloom and live your dream Essays The doomsayers may have the marketplace all to themselves and most of us may have reluctantly accepted the thin economic gruel they're peddling, but the human spirit always hungers for hope. | ||
| The Pardon Music This song arrived fully-formed while I was taking a shower at my friend Helen's home in Auckland. | ||
| The miracle of persistence Essays If character can be said to have molecules, persistence changes our character at a molecular level. It always does this ... but never instantly. | ||
| August 2008 Photographs Wellington and Wanganui. | ||
| Singing for Rory Essays Later, when I paid him, we talked about it. And I didn't feel shamed or exposed. I suspect because continuing to sing had been a conscious choice. | ||
| Bitter chocolate Essays I never open a Cadbury chocolate bar without thinking about that connection, remembering the Cumberland Street factory which I first visited when they were still making biscuits there. | ||
| The pleasure of walking Essays You do arrive at your destination with a clear mind, a relaxed body and a sense of your place in the world that driving a car never gives you. | ||
| The lunchbox of dogma Essays And do they go back to the lunch counter and say "hey, this isn't what's on the menu. We were promised peace, love and understanding"? I've not seen it happen yet. | ||
| Wrappiness Essays It's something Bill Shakespeare was particularly good at - he enriched the language with well over one hundred neologisms. | ||
| July 2008 Photographs Wellington. | ||
| May 2008 Photographs Wanganui and Wellington. | ||
| April 2008 Photographs Wellington, Mt Hiwi and Waverley. | ||
| The Garden Stories All very neat and tidy, but not - simply not - Normal. Mrs Cumming was a strong advocate for Normal, especially since Mr Cumming had left. | ||
| The Lottery Stories But that was not the end of it. A quiet week went by. Two, three weeks. And then Rajid again heard God speak, telling him to buy a ticket in the lottery. | ||
| Compassion Stories We fool ourselves when we consider fairness and justice our right. Like compassion, they are responsibilities only. | ||
| March 2008 Photographs Wellington, LowerHutt, Wanganui and Waverley. | ||
| February 2008 Photographs Wellington, Makara, Karangahake Gorge, Waihi, Opoutere and Onemana. | ||
| January 2008 Photographs Wellington and Wanganui. | ||
| December 2007 Photographs Wanganui and Wellington. | ||
| November 2007 Photographs Wanganui and Wellington. | ||
| The feeling of now Stories Warm self-knowing flow of happy: People open Heart smile | ||
| Introduction Stories I know audiences. They just want to toy with my affectations. | ||
| Love and the princess Stories People don't start out with the capacity for a great love. It is love itself which shapes and expands the human heart. | ||
| Forgotten Stories I shall live in an endless beauty of art and music with such Ecstasies of eternal enjoyment that I resent sleep. | ||
| April 2010 Photographs Up north for awhile, down south for a bit. |
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