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  • Interview with some guy

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    Massey University student Aaron Overington was keen and kind enough to publish an email interview about my role as social media chap at Telecom. Do you have ROI goals or targets to meet, and if so how do you define them? No formal ROI targets have been set yet. We feel our level of investment…

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  • “I think he’s at lunch”

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    A new thing – I’m contributing to corporatelunchbox.com, “an open forum for lunch suggestions in and around Auckland city”. My first post reviews Paneton Bakery: “All rolls and baps are well sized with generous fillings and go for around $6-7, a price that makes non-Aucklanders spit out their roll-up and shout “HOW MUCH?”, but makes…

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  • Who to follow on Twitter

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    The NZ top Tweeter lists (one, two, three) probably did exactly what the Herald wanted it to – create a lot of page views. MUCH debate ensued as to whether your own humble tweet collection of chatter with your mates, with the odd artful zinger is as worthy as some breakfast jock’s. Only you and…

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  • Forever blowing bubbles

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    Leftover pizza dough freezes no worries at all. But in protest, it pops weird bubbles when you thaw it and put it in the oven. Here’s exhibits A and B (click to make bigger): Pizza bread Quick pizza. Because our little family usually can’t eat a whole pizza dough on our own, leftovers usually go…

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  • 2011 in mobile phone photos

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    There was a lot packed in to 2011. Earthquakes, an election, a world cup. A new baby and family stuff. Work. Here’s a summary in mobile phone photos, an idea I’ve pinched. Update – here’s even more. Our office moved to Victoria Street, and I’m lucky enough to have this view – I spent a…

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  • HTC Sensation review

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    I wrote this review for Telecom’s late, lamented co. magazine, after using the handset over the course of a weekend. I subsequently acquired a Sensation to use as my permanent, day to day phone. Reading the review again, it pretty much holds up – I love using it. The camera and video capability are really, really good,…

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  • Flying to Pauanui

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    I made a late entry in the comment thread of the year over at Dim Post, a challenge to “submit a paragraph in which Shelley writes a passage from a classic New Zealand novel in her own inimitable style,” referring to the Herald’s Remuera housewife on Valium / crack columnist Shelly Bridgeman. My paragraph is…

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  • I take photos

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    Santa makes a slow, silent and ultimately doomed bid for freedom Lunch A tugboat doing a wee, for the easily amused Sneaky bollard is sneaky Oceanside

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  • Auckland, Aotearoa Gill

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    An evening with AA Gill, Auckland Readers & Writers Festival 13 May 2011 AA Gill, the man himself, dismantler of restaurants and sharpest dictaphone in the west strolled slowly on stage suited and booted, ready to talk. And talk he did, about food, criticism, his mother, his father, television,travel and his previous life as a…

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  • Cinema’s greatest sandwiches

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