Minor panic when I looked at Sky and couldn’t find a listing for tonight’s All Whites game. Turns out it will be shown on TVNZ.
Five years ago New Zealand’s telecommunications sector was breaking all kinds of records as the nation went into lockdown.
I’m not complaining, but Auckland is a lot colder today. This time yesterday it was 25, right now it’s 16C. That’s a huge drop. Last night I came home at 9:30 wearing a polo shirt. Today I’m wearing a rugby shirt and it’s the first day this years I’ve needed socks.
At last I found a question worth asking ChatGPT where I was not disappointed by the answer:
“What where the names of the Kung Fu ‘stances’ that were shouted out in the fight scenes in the 1990s Hong Kong film ‘Iron Monkey’?”
Linkrot has been a problem for years now, but this weekend is one of the worst yet, more than 40 outbound links from my site died in the last 24 hours and a similar number look like they are about to snuff it at any moment.
Five years ago New Zealand saw unprecedented data peaks during the firstt lockdown. From my site:
I dislike science fiction and fantasy because everything is so implausible. Yet I love kung fu movies where fighters are not even remotely subject to the laws of gravity.
No… I can’t figure this out either.
Barely a cloud in the sky all day, and now there’s a lunar eclipse going there’s nothing to see but clouds.
Going by all the fuss over egg prices coming out of the US, it seems Americans start to lose it when they pay New Zealand prices for their supermarket shopping.
Between now and Easter I anticipate Hot Cross Buns will be my main source of carbohydrates. They may even be my main source of nutrition.
To my eternal shame I loaded about half a dozen AI images on to my web site as an experiment when Midjourney first appeared. I now want to remove them, but there are around 2100 pages and sifting through them looking for the offending images is tedious. I’m just going to wait until they show up.
Would like my bank to offer an option to hide my Kiwisaverer balance when I log in to pay bill. Sending money to the lawn mowing man should not be this distressing.
I had never heard the term ‘take a raincheck’ before coming to New Zealand in the 1980s. Wrongly assumed it had something to do with the weather.
It’s been a long time since I saw a stranger reading a newspaper story that I wrote. Five years at least. But it happened twice today.
Google search has become so awful that for a brief moment I considered using Bing. But no… that’s just as rubbish as it ever was. Sadly the nicer, kinder search engines use Bing’s database, so they’re not much help either.
Was tidying up some broken links on my website and found this sad, but prescient post from 2011.
I was hoping that self-driving taxies might mean rides around town without having to listen to various right wing talking points. But I guess the tech giants have a fix planned for that.
Australians and enlightened New Zealanders… is it technically possible to be addicted to Vegemite?
Because I think I might be.
It’s 2025 and our stovetop Bialetti espresso machine remains my favourite piece of technology.
I never imagined for a moment I’d be writing that sentence when I first began working as a business and technology journalist 44 years ago.
Thank god for that. One of the pains in my work life is navigating umpteen different videoconferencing systems, most of which, like Chime, are flakey and unreliable.
Excellent point here. We often forget how important WordPress has been over the years.
I still have great memories of WordPress, but it’s no longer aligned with my needs.