2014
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Peak nerd
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1 min read
Making custom retro-look mute and volume labels for the good old Apple Extended II (which now lives at work) that I remapped the function keys for is probably a sign of… something.
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Brought knife to gun fight
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1 min read
Thanks to Oliver from CricHQ for the snap.
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Actions, not words
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4 min read
Some quick thoughts on the Telecom -> Spark thing. Telecom’s biggest challenge has always been doing less. Like any incumbent telco, it has no end of systems, processes, technology and products that keep getting in the way of having a product line up that’s simple and complete while still innovating at the pace demanded by…
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You don’t really need a Wolfram Alpha strategy
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3 min read
There’s a school of thought that says whenever two chaps in a garage get a 0.3 beta of a social network out the door, digital folk everywhere should drop everything and get on it. This is bollocks. Your valuable and limited time, energy and resource is best spent on Twitter. Or Facebook. Or the platform(s)…
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Speaking on Mediawatch on the ACC
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1 min read
I was on the Radio New Zealand Mediawatch show talking about the Alternative Commentary Collective, a caravan of chaps commentating the cricket this summer. Hear the interview at Radio New Zealand (my bit’s on about 20 minutes in) and here’s a more thorough run down at sportreview.net.nz.