The Real World
My partner came home from school tonight with a story of the young ex-student who visited to show and tell a liver transplant scar and to thank her year six teacher (my partner) for the belief in...
View ArticleLinkeracy 25 September 2009
Remembering Sir Howard Morrison who died in his sleep this week. My ex-mother-in-law maintained that he and John Rowles were relatives of the family. Fairly tenuous relationships but who was I to argue...
View ArticleRest, Recuperation and Resurrection
My catch of the day at the Huka Falls Prawn Park A new decade – a new start? It would be nice to be able to resurrect this space and do some “fun” writing again. The pressures of the last eighteen...
View ArticleThe Mystery of QR Codes Revealed!
I’ve seen the idea of QR Codes coming up a few times recently. There was a piece by Gina Trapani and some discussion around the issues with their use at SXSW.I thought it might be time to do some...
View ArticleLinkeracy 28 May 2010
Let’s see if we can get a new word into the online vernacular – linkeracy. Linkeracy, as defined by me is the currency of links. Here goes! Kevin Kelly on Wired Magazine‘s early predictions … … it is...
View ArticleThe Posts That I Didn’t Write This Year
It is traditional, at the end of the year, to reflect upon what has been accomplished in the preceding twelve months. This post, the first for a long time, is a simple acknowledgement of what has...
View ArticleThe Digital Magimix
St Kilda Overpass panorama from my digital Magimix Artichoke is blogging again! And because I have decided to attempt to write again I am going to comment on her posts here in my own space. Arti has...
View ArticleYou Get What You Pay For
Although I have not been at home and able to pick up my MacBook to try it out, I am excited about Apple’s new App Store. I’ll be able to pick the software that I want, buy it, download it and hey...
View ArticleLinkeracy 22 May 2011
The Facebook” Dislike” button is a scam … so don’t push it, forward it to your friends or give it any of your time. Via Mashable — ReadWriteWeb reports a French study that says that people scan...
View ArticleTwitter – Making Choices
I’ve been on Twitter for a while now. My @nixit (which has evolved into my professional account) handle is nearly five years old whereas my everyday @nicki_nz account is quite a bit younger. I’m a...
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