Well, we did it... after an incredible series of mishaps (like this) and failures to source essential equipment (like this), things actually started going really well. Our assigned genre was Crime,...
Somehow, I've managed to destroy two hard-drives recently, and in the process lost a small but significant collection of writing, mostly stuff that I was planning to publish here. As things fell...
Wow. Last week was absolutely crazy. Aside from being super busy at work and trying to keep several part-time music and design projects ticking over (!!), I attended Webstock 08 (aka The Nat Torkington...
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...
So I have joined SilverStripe in a full time role as a core developer. It's a fantastic opportunity for me to apply my programming and design skills to a mature open source software project with a...
I'm looking for work. If anyone knows of a good Wellington based position for an information designer slash programmer slash writer with 10 years experience building HTML and CSS websites and 6 years...
Lately, I've adopted a new strategy to stem the flow of procrastination, and have been experimenting with the Bedouin worker lifestyle. I've been doing freelance design work from home for the...
What a weekend. One of the most intense storms of blogging and flickrizing that I've ever seen, and definitely the most intense all nighter I've ever experienced. Our charity client was so blown...
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...
This site is my playground, a whirlwind of ideas, projects, tutorials, and information, a mental mind map. Warning: this site is undergoing a major transformation in public motion. Aspects...
I am privileged to be a part of the first NZ FullCodePress team, to travel to Sydney in August. By luck or whatever else, I somehow find myself right in the middle of it... What is possible for...
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...
I've just had a massive breakdown from lack of sleep and stress. Accidentally getting tangled up in the 48hour film project was fun, but definitely didn't help. My major web project of the last couple...
Here's an old journal which hasn't been written to in a while... What shall we do with it, precious?
Just meandering on the Coromandel...
Yes, I'm still alive. No, I'm not planning to be at Webstock even though the lineup looks fantastic and me ol' mates Mark and Phil will be showing off some pretty cool stuff in the 8x5 session. I...
I think someone is trying to tell me something... I've been noticing requests for http://maetl.coretxt.net.nz/http popping up in the logs, which is probably a sign that I should be fixing a few...
Just got back from a few days chilling in Auckland (pleasantly free of internet technology, thank you very much). Touched down in Welli on Saturday night, to be greeted with the amazing sight of a...
Too busy and preoccupied to write anything coherent for a while, I've finally been plunging headlong into Ruby and for the first time, doing programming work and experiments that are not directly...
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning...
Well, now the election's over, and there's not much left to do but wait til the coalition is announced (and perhaps look at some visualizations of the results), I have a bit of personal news to relay... As...
The last few days I've been locked into a frustrating negative and consuming frame of mind where writing and programming clash together, which unfortunately caused a few headaches. Just one of those...
Spring is beginning here, as evidenced by the tiny yellow blossoms sticking to my shoes these last couple of days... It seems a very fertile time for open source collaboration at the moment, and...
Why do I always notice shit like this? (via 43 Things)
Or I'm a complete and total dumbarse... Uploaded some random experiments via FTP, and accidentally overwrote some of the core libraries without realising it. The good thing is that it forced me...
Of all the places my parents could have been on the 7th July, they just happened to be travelling on the underground in London that morning. It took me nearly a whole day to get hold of them, a fairly...
It's good in Wellington at the moment. I'm just glad that I am going to be able to sleep this weekend (unlike those about to unleash the 48 Hours!). But there's a lot going...
Some things keep going, a little bit at a time... Just a collection of random notes at the moment, but I've made some big changes recently, that should start to make the core features easier to...
So stood the young man On the verge of never holding back, But never still yet Oblivious to praise, He could only focus on the chinks in his armour Small steps in a search...
We were going through the barbed wire when a machine gun started. I kept walking until I saw my head lying on the ground. "My god i'm dead" my head said. And my body fell over. Norman...
It's the busiest time of year, and recent commitments have left little time for writing. I'm working on some articles about the history of information design and fascist themes and repurposing...
Things have been pretty hectic lately and unfortunately I've had to push back a number of updates to this site, as random work and business requirements threaten to overwhelm... There's still no archive...
----- Original Message ----- From: "thesaurus" To: "maetl_" Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 7:55 PM Subject: Snow storm on canvass Saaaaap to you Relentlessly turbulent one, Hell bent...
This site is written in HTML and rendered in CSS + Javascript. The layout is heavily inspired by the geometric design experiments at the Bauhaus in the mid 1920s, but with a...
Long overdue, perhaps more difficult than finding time, was the problem of actually having something to write inside this architecture. But finally, the format of the experiment...
