arvestbird’s writing talent has been recognised with the inclusion of one of her essays in Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015, which had its Christchurch launch last night. She invited me along to the launch, where she and a few of the other included writers read teasingly short excerpts from their essays. It…
This is the second time I’ve written this post. This morning I wrote a long (and, of course, incredibly witty and entertaining) version of it, but when I hit publish WordPress just laughed at me and ate it. And I didn’t have time to re-write it straight away, because I had to run off and…
The two main programming languages we use at work to build helpful little tools to speed up the tedious jobs are Javascript and Python. I’ve been making reasonably good progress at learning Javascript, but the Python stuff I’ve been leaving to Lucy-Jane, who is a much more skilled programmer than me. On Friday afternoon, she…
ēnā koutou katoa, Ko Kopuwai te maunga, Ko Mata-au te awa, Ko Ngāti Pākehā te iwi, Ko MacMillan te hapū, Nō Ōtākou au, Kei Ōtautahi ahau e noho ana, He CEISMIC Production Coordinator taku mahi, Ko FutureCat taku ingoa, Nā reira, tēnā koutou katoa. Greetings to you all, Kopuwai (the Old Man Range in Central…
ur team spent the day out at Kaiapoi, at the Tuahiwi Marae, learning about the history of the Ngāi Tūāhuriri hapū and a bit of tikanga Māori. As it was being held on a marae, we started off with a pōwhiri, then after morning tea we broke into groups to learn how to put together…