Recently, I've been talking a lot about freeing the internet in Wellington by spreading excess bandwidth from various 'net connections across a city-wide mesh. But this is a best case scenario compared...
Excitement builds... Today was the first day of Webstock workshops in Wellington, and s'all abuzz in the NZWC. At SilverStripe, more than half our office is likely to be gone over the two conference...
Finally... A Creative Commons License that is legally valid in Aotearoa New Zealand. There's a few links on a few sites I should start updating now. Well done to Alastair Pharo, Brian Opie, Karin...
As the dust settles, it is clear that the unrest is far from over. Wikipedia has detailed and thorough coverage which is currently the best starting point for exploring the issue, as grandstanding...
Check out this footage of my old mate Bryce in the ring with Shane Cameron, shot not long before the brutal fight in Auckland where Cameron ended up ahead on points but had his forehead beaten to...
The Dominion Post all but ignores the local body elections for months leading up to the final vote count, but then turns around and has absolutely no problem giving Owen Scott a soapbox for hand-wringing...
In a 1950 editorial the "New Zealand Design Review" identified the "horrible forces ranged against good design" as Indifference, Cheapness First, Unnecessary Novelty, Mass Production, De Luxe...
Despite the fact that we may be just shambling toward a messy repeat of last time, I would urge all you Wellington residents out there to get out and vote in the local body elections. So far,...
Wellington based startup Ponoko went public today, in conjunction with the TechCrunch event in San Francisco. Some of you may have seen bits and pieces at the Dowse recently, or even come across...
It's been a long long time since I've participated in hours and hours of such lively and (mostly) positive discussion. I have to echo Mike's view that Wellington is one of the only places where...
I was supposedly going to be in Auckland this weekend, but things changed. After a fascinating discussion with Callum Strong on the relativity of rates on Thursday, I spontaneously decided...
The two teams have just briefed, the rooms have been set up, the network is streaming, and we're gathering up all the final bits and pieces we're gonna need (post-it notes, and assorted bits of...
We're safe and sound in balmy Sydney, where we await the arrival of the Australian team. We're planning to take it pretty easy on Friday with a bit of tinkering, a bit of touristy stuff, before...
The Independent Financial Review (via Stuff) revealed today that Air New Zealand and Boeing have a secret working agreement with Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation to test a new type of biofuel for jet...
Finalists for the New Zealand FullCodePress team have been selected, and I'm one of them! Final selection is tomorrow. Good luck to everyone who has been nominated, especially the other two selected...
Russian tycoon announces to the Guardian that he is plotting the overthrow of the Russian state. Kasparov is arrested, and the Putin government orders demonstrators off the streets, and sends riot...
He's a personable fellow, George, greeting our Prime Minister with a cheery "Hey, here's Helen!" upon her arrival. But he's not the sharpest tack in the pack, it must be said. I noticed he had some...
The state of science education in New Zealand, is in dire need of a massive creative rejuvenation, but it can only occur to it's fullest once there is widespread knowledge of an irreconcilable crisis...
We all suspected that Marty was an insane genius, seems the art world is starting to pay him some attention after the close of the Obsessive Drawing exhibition. Not that any of this publicity would...
I noticed that New Zealand is not included on the Prejudice Map. Due to the obvious weirdness of our location on many Euro or US-centric world map projections, it's always funny to see where we are...
I'm not usually one to jump onboard the blog meme wagon, but after seeing the recent proliferation of America in Ten Movies or Less, I started wondering which ten films would best sum up the New...
It's 3am, after a night of boozing and rampaging in Whitianga and everything is closed except for a takeaway bar on one of the side streets. Rustic bogan dude steps out of the line at the counter,...
Labour: wipe interest on all student loans. National: cut petrol tax. Vroom vroom... Let's treat the NZ public like a boisterous toddler. If they don't listen to us, we'll just stuff their...
One of the worrying things about this National Party under Brash, is the noticeable lack of clearly planned policies and strategies. In terms of fiscal objectives, these well documented tax cuts are...
A new TV3/TNS poll puts the Labour party back in front... Projected number of seats in the House on the basis of the latest poll results: * Labour 57 National 45 NZ First 6 Green Party 8 Maori...
Make a National billboard... a few people have taken this for a spin with the most obvious tax joke ever, looking after US interests, the Green Party, authority, and facism and socialism.
KiwiMP is an open source project aimed at opening up the information available about New Zealand's government and political processes: For all its faults and foibles, our democracy is a profound...
I can't believe they're still arguing about this... it's the year 2005, can we really take the idea of investment and competition in copper wires that seriously? As if theres going to be incentive...
Brilliant: tardme.co.nz... complete with threats of legal action.
In Remote Tagging: A Richer Social Model, Stowe Boyd describes an addition to the RelTag microformat that allows shared tags themselves to be embedded in the link....
So Te Ara is finally live, and I'm immensely proud of having been involved in the design process, primarily the development of the CSS/Javascript system, the lower level content pages and the...
Since last week, the New Zealand Immigration Service website has been getting over 10,000 hits per day, and a stream of enquiries from Americans wanting to escape the BushCo...
It's been over a week - and still no Wellington election results... The local body elections are obviously not taken seriously by the majority of the population - witness a voter turnout...
INTERJECTION: "Mr Lange Sir, if I may address you as 'mate', perhaps. You talk about the quality of rationality. Now I've heard many reasons advanced for keeping American sailors out of ports...
"Freedom of the will" - that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor...
Matapihi is a free collaborative service stretching across New Zealand's collective cultural archive (see also: PictureAustralia and Images Canada). The search tool provides access...
