I've been relatively quiet on the blogging front lately, for two reasons. Firstly I've been busily reading as much of Heath Row's SXSW transcriptions as possible (thanks Heath!) - so

Congratulations to Peter Jackson and his team for the 11-oscar sweep! New Zealanders (all 30 of us) are currently basking in the reflected glory of Jackson's achievement, like an escaped otter

I've been following Erik Benson's recent posts about his quest to find a "Big Goal" to work towards. The conversation has been very heavy, which is hardly surprising since we're talking about The

S¯ren Kierkegaard, 19th century philosopher: "Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really

Man it gets quiet in the blogosphere over xmas. I've had to resort to some real work to keep myself occupied. I've been diving into XSLT to try and develop

The world premiere of the Lord of the Rings was held in Wellington, New Zealand today - my hometown. Peter Jackson, the New Zealand director of the Rings trilogy, is

Today, August 25, is Elvis Costello's birthday. It's also my birthday :-) Co-incidentally, we also share the same surname. Elvis Costello's real name is Declan MacManus. How cool is

Actually in New Zealand, we don't have "grade schools" (they're called Primary and Secondary schools here). But I wanted to subtly reference Jon Udell's influential article called "Grade School CMS".

Asterisk: "...the one thing every Web professional needs, regardless of their main job function, be that IA, Design, Development, what-have-you is adaptability. You know, the ability to wing it." In

Ever listen to The Velvet Underground's 9 minute live version of 'What goes on', from their 1969 Live album Volume 1? The first couple of minutes feature Lou Reed singing