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New Toy
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2 min read
My place of work has been so goodly kind to shout me a shiny new Okta Touch. First thoughts: It’s sexy. Real sexy. Sexy as really cold beer on a hot day. This is my first real PDA, and all my ‘I just want a PHONE, man’ thoughts melted effortlessly away in no time. It’s…
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From Merlin Mann’s 5ives: 1. gently enquires as to where you like to put the turkey baster 2. repeatedly offers to demonstrate “how Blighty squeezes the lemonade” 3. stands in your front yard, pants-less and swinging a garden hose in lazy figure-eights 4. makes rapid “milking a cow” gesture while screaming something incoherent about Robert…
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You can read the original over on the Aucklandista For Aucklanders, traffic is big, right up there with property prices and ‘How’s my hair?’. THAT big. So when I moved to the Shore (love makes you do crazy things, team), getting to work weighed heavily on my mind. I mean, Shore traffic is crap, right?…
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Lookalike – is it just me?
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1 min read
Has anyone else drawn comparison between alleged murderer / vigilante Bruce Emery and the Michael Douglas character from Falling Down? In other, related questions – am I a terrible person?
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Narrowneck beach, anniversary weekend
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0 min read
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Link: You suck at Photoshop
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1 min read
A nerd’s life comes apart in front of your eyes, while explaining best clone stamp practice. I love that he’s turned a boring old Photoshop tutorial into a mini tragedy. Genius. Episode one / Episode two / Episode three
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Facebook infestation hits New Zealand beaches
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1 min read
Facebook has taken over from Sharks as the slow news summer shock horror story. The Sunday Star Times reprinted curmudgeonly Tom Hodkinson’s rant from the Guardian, changing its’ title from ‘With friends like these…’ to the much more measured “Why Facebook is EVIL!”. Reading the SST front page story I learned Sophie Elliot’s boomer era…
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Climb every mountain
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1 min read
One of our greatest died today. I’ve only got one Sir Ed story (it’s not even my story, technically, but anyhoo). A good friend used to look after Sir Ed’s feet at his Meadowbank podiatry practice. He was making small talk and remarked that it was pretty cold that morning. We’re talking Auckland in maybe…
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Bressa Creeting Cake appreciation day
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2 min read
Bressa Creeting Cake recorded my fav NZ album ever – here’s my entry to Public Address System’s Soundtrack competition. It’s a fuck of an album.Bressa Creeting Cake for the most part went on to become vineyard and orchstra salwarts Goldenhorse, after releasing my favorite NZ album, the eponymous Bressa Creeting Cake. Dodgy name (and cover)…
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New Cloverfield trailer
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Empire has the latest trailer for Cloverfield, the mysterious monster mashup movie that ‘s got interweb nerds ordering an extra case of Mountain Dew and towelettes for extra long nights’ online debate. It’s bought to you by Lost’s JJ Abrahams, and has loads of hand held camera stuff, plus shit blowing up – The Blair…
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