“blog your rage, vent your spleen in the only way we know...”
— Twitter / spudooli re: the...

Truckies strike this morning against increasing road user...

Kira Cochrane on the apparent backlash...

don't you dare:

introducing zoe

magazines

i love nice magazines with their layouts and their ideas.  i guess it is also their alluring...

lifeasart: Why did I write? Because I found life...

Steven Poole: Fugitive pieces

the first annual nzff club

(and may be extended to other film festivals, who knows?) the aim of the group is to actually see...

wanted: an epiphany

i am so bored of this website.  i’m bored of considering lifestreams and blogs and linklogs...

diy worry

“Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than...”
— Kevin Kelly — The...

[corner store] kareenazerefos.com

Fictional stars get a makeover

Spotted, A by D: Just Add New Zealanders. Look it’s...

A homage to "velvet touch" lettering from...

How the Web Was Won: an oral history from...

Photos from Dan’s 30th on Darren’s Flickr - the...

Haiku–Tue: All Haiku, All Tuesday

1 year anniversary

“My hope is that this new degree of public intimacy can widen...”
— Derek Powazek - Not Just One...

User Experience is Everyone’s Responsibility

maura: (via catbird, who left out the part about the...

Living the Prolific Life: A How-to Guide |...

taking time out:

ways to survive the colder months

veryplaintxt · plaintxt.org

preparing for winter

Tips on how to work smarter from Ricardo...

BBC NEWS | Technology | Luminaries look to...

A Poem About The Internet

kfan: Do not stop to think or editYou must be the first who said it.

Colophon | Denna Jones

i am starting to wonder

Brought to you by the letter "v"

Recently the helpful phone book delivery people dropped the 30cm high stack of Auckland directories...

interpretive dance

The web, community, privacy and optimism

More unhelpful high end sales people

Kitty Wigs! The Wigs

How to Become a Writer

Dear Noelle McCarthy and staff of Viva,

Barcamp Auckland 2 - 12 July 2008

marginalia, by billy collins

Photo Matt » OpenID and Spam

trials of the gym

In a moment of almost-fanaticism last year Darren and I joined a very nice gym. It’s so nice...

ben barren - rss'ing down under: my blog is...

Themes/Theme Compatibility/2.5

Look who finally learned the computer.

postcardsfromyomomma: Look who finally learned the computer. Dad set me up email ACCOUNT AND ALSO...

public transport

Again, a lament about the sorry state of public transport in this city.  The train rules but...

Geotag Icon Project

Fray: The Quarterly of True Stories

in the spirit of marissa:

Mobileness ~ Authentic Boredom

Adding Comments to Tumblr

Photos are now up from our engagement party. View the...

Sitepoint > designing for the mobile web

mobile phone numbers should work like...

It is just a simple truth, and one that is highlighted to me every time I have to manually enter a...

webstock 2008: a roundup

Webstock 2008 was an event and a half, as expected - amazing speakers, a list of books to search out...

structuring personal digital artifacts

I have a mess of websites, several domains, and content all over the place - Wordpress blogs, a web...

webstock photo walk

About 9.50AM yesterday morning it started to rain.  As we are currently in Wellington I wasn’t...

too quiet?

Hello and happy new year! I realise it is now well into February (we celebrated Waitangi Day...

short form notes

I sometimes wonder how other people write: how they pull together disparate ideas, how they form...

spaghetti or meatball?

Mat Allen designed the awesome tshirts everyone got today and was kind enough to explain what he was...

diy css frameworks

Darren Wood’s presentation was posed as a conversation on CSS design patterns. Frameworks have been...

tales from the scrum

Andrew Hedges, UI developer from Vianet.travel, ran a session about a project management method for...

barcamp round-up

The inaugural Auckland BarCamp was organised by Ludwig Wendzich, a 16 year old high school student....

credit where credit is due

The first presentation I attended was Che Tamahori’s - he spoke about giving credit where credit is...

charles

The second afternoon session I attended was about Charles, run by Karl von Randow. Charles is a...

webstock photo exhibition

In the original Webstock line-up, Heather Champ and Derek Powazek were going to lead a photo...

i work on the web

It’s been far too long in coming, but I finally wrote & added my iworkontheweb.com profile. Do...

email standards project

If you’re not blind or deaf, you’ve heard about the new Email Standards Project, which has been...

disappointment

I came into work this morning to some bad news: due to personal reasons, my internet heroes Derek...

barcamp auckland announced

If you haven’t already heard, Auckland will have the inaugural Auckland BarCamp on December 15th - I...

don't reinvent the book

It’s pretty similar to the saying “we don’t need to reinvent the wheel” - books are not something I...

nail polish technique

I recently inherited Darren’s Macbook with glee - except about the yellow discolouration which was...

planning menus

I’ve explained this to a few people lately and thought I’d post it here in case anyone else is...

news

Not that it is an excuse for not posting here, but I have changed jobs & operating systems....

semi-permanent 2007

Yesterday I attended the 2007 Semi-Permanent event with a bunch of my workmates & design-y...

being blind online

Last night at the Auckland UPA meeting, Neil Jarvis from the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the...

mysky

I’m not a huge TV watcher but now we have MySky which suddenly removes a lot of things that I don’t...

raise your hand if you love google

I do! I do! And I’m about to tell you why. email I now use Gmail for all my mail - I can send from...

ordering online

A subject close to my own heart, as various past times I’ve been quite enamoured of (zines, crafts)...

blending

As always, the most recent Great Blend had a range of thought-provoking topics and speakers. It was...

transportable internet

Online experience shapes offline experience more often than not for me now; any time I am away from...

15 minutes, or the new (internet)...

When the web first boomed, there were the people who got rich quick. Some of them then got poor...

twitter

I can’t help it - I’m hooked on Twitter. Darren sent me an invite yesterday and after initially...

personal folksonomies

One thing I always struggle with when I’m tagging my online content - especially on Flickr - is that...

vortex.net.nz: handjiving since 1999

what:  vortex.net.nz serves as a fragmentary and overarching key to personal memoir, notepad &...