Do not read this without Auckland Council’s permission.

Officials are funny. They’ve officially made an official website for the Auckland Council and have said that, officially, you are not allowed to link to it.

Nepal Trip: Trekking with Mark Inglis

Recently I’ve been having a chat with Mark Inglis through Twitter, for which I’m completely honoured, and humbled. If you were to ask anyone in the know in New Zealand about famous New Zealand mountaineers, you’d hear Inglis mentioned amongst some proud names such as Rob Hall, Russell Brice and, of course, Sir Edmund Hillary. Mark [...]

How our car was stolen and then recovered

(UPDATE TO THIS POST: I FOUND THE CAR! SEE THE END OF THIS POST FOR DETAILS) This morning, my wife called me to ask me if I’ve moved her car. Questions like this spark immediate concern! Yes, my wife’s car was stolen last night from right outside our house. Ok it was only a 1992 [...]

The KeepCup. One Sexy Coffee Cup.

In our Christchurch office we have one of those new Council plastic bags to take the recycling out each week. Because it’s transparent, you get a good idea of how much rubbish you’re producing. Now ok, it is being recycled rather than thrown away … but too many people think that they’re doing the world [...]

Improve SEO With Dodgy Words & Hot Girls.

This has been mentioned a few times before but I’m going to pretend you’re not cool enough to have read the rest of this blog and so you may not know that this whole site is hosted on Wordpress. Although you may be too cool to know that SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. Now you know. You’re a little bit less cool. Ha.

Anyway, as well as an awesome amount of functionality for little-to-no cost, Wordpress provides a heap of statistics along the lines of: (read the rest at www.nzraw.co.nz)