Dec 23, 2011

This afternoon, 23rd December 2011, Christchurch was hit by yet another significant aftershock. And to be frank, we’re pretty bloody over it by now. Like much of the city, I was at work when it happened and it was definitely another one that required getting under the desks. It was a 5.8 that hit us, 8km deep and approximately 20km NE of Lyttelton. Driving...

Dec 1, 2011

It’s a fact: you can go to straight to Paradise from Queenstown. And although you might think you’re already in Paradise when you first see Queenstown, you aren’t. It’s 67 kilometres away, past Glenorchy and across the Jordan River. Paradise is not everyone’s idea of fun. If you’re strictly the shopping/sipping latte type, go somewhere else....

Nov 8, 2011

Google+ have finally launched Google+ Pages. Like Facebook Pages, these are ‘profiles’ that are intended for businesses, brands and other similar indentities, rather than individual people. Perhaps to avoid the mad scramble for vanity URLs (i.e. website addresses that contain the brand name such as facebook.com/nzraw), Google appear to be identifying...

Nov 6, 2011

The new temporary city mall has been open in Christchurch now for a week. Buildings damaged in the earthquake have been demolished and replaced with cargo containers to create a new, temporary, Cashel Mall. I visited the mall yesterday and was quite impressed with what they have done. The cargo containers have been nicely converted, brightly painted and...

Nov 1, 2011

Just a quick post to say that NZ Raw recently received its 100,000th view! Woohoo! I once read a great piece of advice – celebrate every victory. With that in mind and in the spirit of writing, I figured I’d write another blog post! I’m quite proud of that statistic although it’s quite a messy one as statistics go. Mainly because this...