Vanity

Linkeracy 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 with a magnificent old kuia?


Speaking of Kiwi Culture, said ex-mother-in-law’s eldest child was Pixie Wiliams who was the vocalist on New Zealand’s [...]

Steal This Comic

… you can’t win either way … Steal This Comic from xkcd

Format Shifting

Eight days since I last posted. I wish that I could say that I have been doing exciting, worthy things but sadly, no. it’s milestone and variation time here in ICT-PD-land and it’s all been about collating and compiling and putting it all together.

This morning’s Sunday Star Times had a spend-up-before -Christmas glossy about some [...]

A New Voice

A group of Canadian musicians has got together to voice their opposition to the copyright controls that they say have been imposed upon them and their fans by large multi-national recording companies.

The musicians, with Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan amongst their more famous names, are calling on their government to support them in [...]

Linkfest

I’m in the middle of a site tidy up and so I am in a posting mood. Long may it last.

Podz has a great tutorial for getting Wordpress on a USB memory stick. I can verify that this does actually work and is a handy way of demonstrating how Wordpress works. Get the [...]