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Food tweets
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1 min read
Update on pizza notes. Roast hogget stuffed with honey, mustard and breadcrumbs from Donna Hay. Scalloped potatoes from the Edmonds Cookbook. Important to point out, these were two separate meals.
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Getting sociable and sensibile in the Bay
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MediaSense is a new social media conference put on by Hal Josephson, a Hawke’s Bay entrepreneur, impresario and top bloke. For me, this was a fantastic chance to meet folk I don’t normally meet, with people from all around the country attending. The Bay was well represented and I was most impressed with the locals’ friendliness…
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Two things too small for posts of their own
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One: I’ve signed up at goodreads.com. My first review is of Donald Sturrock’s Road Dahl bio Storyteller. I recommend it, and wrote a review over there. Most interesting to me was Dahl’s view of himself as an outsider, never conforming to any individual’s or the literary establishment’s expectations, and the fact that he came to…
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#retroavatarfriday – requiem for a meme
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It all started with a tweet: This got a few comments, TV3 changed theirs, a hashtag was born, and before long, it became a *thing*. The retro avatars fell into three categories – corporates, who went through the brand crypt to find logos past, people who uploaded old pop culture references, and baby photos. By 3.30pm the next day, the internet had…
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Pizza notes
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I’ve been experimenting, trying to make the best thin base pizza I can at home. I’d heard that Italian pizza is about the crust, not the topping, the same way Italian pasta is about the pasta, not the sauce. I wanted on board. With much trial and error, using me Dad’s basic bread-in-a-breadmaker* recipe: …I’ve…
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Social policy in one tweet
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1 min read
And ‘they’ ‘said’ it ‘couldn’t’ be ‘done’.
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The @vaughndavis interview
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Popular goat farmer @vaughndavis wrote Tweet This Book, a book about social media. I wanted to interview him for Telecom’s co. magazine, so I put new batteries in my dictaphone and suggested we meet up for a chat. Vaughn gently suggested I was clearly off my tits on printer’s ink, and that we should do…
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It’s a camera with a phone
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Clearing out my phone’s photo gallery. If you look at this photo while standing next to the oven on 230 degrees on fan bake, you’ll get an idea of how hot it was this day, but with less cooling breeze. This thing made us move out of our fishing spot in the Tauranga harbour channel.…
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Victoria Park, 10 December 2010, just after 7am
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It was very tempting to just stay there for the day, let me tell you.
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