i didn’t put up any posts while i was india (for a number of reasons – we moved around a lot; internet access was a bit patchy; i had marathon installed on my laptop so endup up playing that instead of writing) – but i did take a lot of photos. rather than trying to...
this post is an article i wrote for the new zealand telecommunications review a few months ago (it appeared in the march 2011 edition). the telecommunications review website can be found here. Squeezing the last potential drop of performance from a costly WAN or internet connection is usually pretty high up on the list of...
i did a photoshoot for a friend of mine a week or two ago – he has recently returned to auckland from london, and is the head chef at the rendezvous hotel. they were looking for some new artwork for the various collateral (posters, websites, etc) that they put together for the restaurants and catering...
fiona and i are off to india – officially. we booked flights today, heading out early december, stopping off for a couple of nights in singapore on the way (got some family there we’re going to visit, along with all those huge and cheap camera shops), then flying into delhi. we’ll be in india for...
nonsuch park, london, january 2009. hoar frost on plastic fencing.
the roof of the entry to the library of congress – washington, d.c., usa.
detail at the grand palace, in bangkok, in may 2008.
a technical post this afternoon… i thought it would be timely to share some detail on some of the changes that we’ve been rolling out in the orcon network over the last few weeks. i’ve been with orcon for approximately the last eight years, and for the most part, bar some specialist services operating in...
in the summer of 2008, over christmas and new years, we spent two weeks driving around the south island. this photo was taken at around 4am on the car ferry from picton, at the northern tip of the south island, to wellington, at the southern end of the north island. it was taken with my...
i’ve been using an ipad – it’s a 16gb wifi, the entry-level model – for the last week or so and i’ve decided i like it quite a lot. it’s prompted me to give a bit of thought to how i can travel more effectively (particularly when backpacking) with technology – when i’m on the...
taken in randers, in denmark – at the randers regnskov tropical zoo, in 2007. it’s a frog. it’s pretty cool. as it happens, also taken with my first digital slr – a canon 350d, with a 70-200mm f4 lens. sadly stolen not long after i returned to nz. more photographic evidence.
it’s 3am, and i’m jetlagged as all hell (still), and i’ve only managed a couple of hours sleep since last nights sleeplessness. and i’m sitting in an amtrak departure gate in union station, waiting for the 4am train to new york – nothing is open, and i’ve already finished the two coffees and the red...
