It’s been a bit ungadgety around here lately, but never fear! I’ve got some cool stuff coming up in the next couple of weeks: Reviewing the new Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kit. Reviewing the Arduino starter kit from Mindkits.co.nz Giving away an LG [...]

I’m known to drift a little off-topic on occasion, but if you would bear with me for a few moments… Earlier this week, the NBR, one of New Zealand’s eminent printed business publications, decided to hide 20% of its content [...]

Update: the phone is back up for sale now, concluding the strangest 24 hours in New Zealand mobile handset sales so far this year. If I’ve learnt one thing today it is this: PR is a quirky business. Today, for reasons yet [...]

If you’ll forgive a diversion from my usual geekly rantings for a moment, I have a polite request to make of you. In New Zealand, during July, you will be asked to vote in a referendum on the following question: Should a [...]

Ollie, Alex and I had a blue whale of a time at the Air Show, and Ollie even got his photo on the local news website. He loved being able to sit at the controls of two or three planes, [...]

I took my five year old to the incredibly politically incorrect Military Day at MOTAT (Museum Of Transport And Technology) yesterday. The day included rides in various military vehicles, exhibits by historical re-enactment clubs, and a couple of blank-fire re-enactments [...]

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it." [...]

What a tumultuous year. I’ve changed jobs twice, but two of them have been the same. Sounds like a mind-twister, but it was simply Datacom -> Orion Health -> Datacom. If you catch me after a few beers I might have [...]

They say that angry customers tell 3,000 friends, while satisfied customers only tell 3. A couple of weeks ago I got the regular helpful little card from my bank, reminding me that it was time to re-fix a portion of [...]

In the spirit of Web 2.0 and user created content, I had a sudden realisation that rather than sit by myself and puzzle through some ideas, I should ask the community. That would be you fullahs. So, let’s assume for the [...]