Sep 10, 2011

I love Stuff.co.nz. It’s a great source of news but mainly I love them because they’re the only New Zealand news source that have bothered to put together a mobile phone app, for both Android and iPhone. It’s a pretty good one at that – I always start my day by reading through the news on my phone while lying in bed. For me it’s the...

Aug 29, 2011

I like to think I take care of my stuff but the reality is that I always seem to be breaking things. I got a new BlackBerry at work so bought a special case to protect it. It arrived this morning and two hours later I’d broken the case. When it comes to cameras, I seem to have been through quite a few in my life, ever since my first camera – one with...

Aug 28, 2011

Following the almighty east coast earthquake in the US (sorry, I swear that’s all the piss-taking I’ll do in this post), Twitter have released a great video that shows just how fast Twitter is. Entitled “Twitter, faster than earthquakes”, it’s a video that’s been put together to show that Twitter was faster than the earthquake...

Aug 15, 2011

Jump to update for Tuesday 16th August -> As was forecast, we’ve woken up to a fair bit of snow again. At this stage it does seem to be a bit more snow than in July. Already I have 15 to 16 cms of snow in my driveway and it’s still coming down. It’s at that great powdery stage at the moment where it crunches underfoot and you can walk...

Aug 14, 2011

As Christchurch prepares for yet another icy blast – one that is supposed to be colder and last longer than the snow that we had back in July (more pics on the photos page) – many people are heading to supermarkets and corner stores to stock up on food supplies. Perhaps not such as bad idea seeing as Civil Defence are warning that people have have to...

Aug 13, 2011

I was jumping around the internet the other day and came across these cool travel videos. They’re all by the same small team and have been created using a kind of stop-motion effect, recording short clips of video and stitching them all together. There are three videos – Move, Eat and Learn – that were all taken over the length of one huge...