Why I’ve gone so quiet: the Mongol Rally 2012

Hello, dear readers :) I just wanted to explain why I’ve been so quiet as of recent, and why I’ll likely be pretty quiet for the next couple of months. In short: I’m doing the Mongol Rally (with mad Canuckistani Dane Foster). We’re leaving Wellington on July 10th, and beginning our epic trip from the […]

A toolkit for organisations and social media

…Well, a little bit. Certainly, this post is for those of you who know organisations which are looking at social media and considering whether to get involved or not. Now, before a number of you cough and splutter, dear readers, it’s worth noting that many organisations are, really, honestly, I absolutely promise, still pondering this […]

nerd nite Wellington 10, featuring Mars, quantum mechanics and Mad Makers

This month’s edition of nerd nite Wellington looks to be a cracker. Or, possibly, a corker.     To celebrate the 10th edition,we’ve got people talking about making mad gadgets (and noises with them), KiwiMars and quantum mechanics. April 23rd, from 6pm. And two of them are Scibloggers!  Elf Eldridge and Roger Hanson, to be […]

Find value of your name!

The newest installment in my ‘I get the best spam’ series is this one, featured below. From the fractured English I was able to twist from Google Translate, it appeared to be an invitation to join a google group, for the purposes of discovering my genealogy and so forth. In fact, the website to which […]

#webstock tweetage

Hooray for the internets! Most appropriately, during Jeremy Keith (@adactio)’s talk about, amongst other things, trying to keep and store as much data/information as we can, and not letting the internet forget as easily as it might, I’ve set up an archive of #webstock (webstock conference) tweets. It’s being updated every five minutes, and is […]

The mechanics of love

Today is Valentines Day. Apparently, this is the cause for a great deal of consternation.  I know that it has, over the years, occasioned horror for me, too*. So, I thought I’d just share something a bit fun and whimsical.  Those of you who are American will no doubt know the name Rube Goldberg. I […]

I fink u freeky…

AND, talking of the expression ‘But is it art?’, freak-rap/industrial rave/genre-defying/confusing to non-South Africans group Die Antwoord has brought out its newest single/music vid. And it’s NOM. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw[/youtube] It’s off their new album TEN$ION, which, it is claimed, delivers “some apocalyptic fuckin’ industrial rave.” Makes me very proud to be of South African extraction, and […]

OMG! Earth photography pr0n

Thank you, NASA, for once again providing really beautiful imagery. Fresh off the boat off the orbiting device*, a gorgeous ‘blue marble’ photograph of the little planet upon the surface of which we sail through our ever-expanding universe**. As NASA says: This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on […]

Weirdest comment spam ever

I’ve just received the strangest piece of comment spam ever, over on my Sciblogs blog. I have not approved it, so it will not be appearing anywhere in comments.  But I figured it merited a post :P —- blah blah details of IP addresses (nothing attached to them), etc Comment: Hey There Sciblogs, Very interesting, […]