or: bargain-hunting, even beyond the grave When setting up a will, you must nominate an executor to distribute your assets. It's a nontrivial task with some »
Loung Ung, First they Killed My Father, 2006. 238 pages. Before travelling to Cambodia, I wanted to learn a bit about their recent history - what »
Another month, another headling-grabbing bug: "Patch ASAP: Tons of Linux apps can be hijacked by evil DNS servers, man-in-the-middle miscreants" - The Register "Patch now! Unix »
In this post, I read along with the 1999 Berkeley DB USENIX paper. Berkeley DB as a tiny (175KB) embedded key-value filesystem-backed database. Berkeley DB lets »
Today, I'm launching Scatter.FM, a new visualisation that shows Last.fm users how their listening habits change over time. If you've been a Last.fm »
Mt Te Aroha Antenna Mast (Photo Credit: Joel Oughton) I've just launched a new visualisation: a map of New Zealand's terrestrial Radio/Wireless network. It's a »
Lights have been attached to the Bridge St Bridge, and they look amazing in Hamilton’s signature thick fog. The fog’s usually pretty thick, but »
I never used to care about the government budget. Every year, I'd see a storm of Budget stories on the news, and I wouldn't understand any »
I made a simple HTML5 iPhone app that displays a numeric keypad. My laptop doesn't have a numberpad, and I needed one for some of Blender's »
Hamilton gets heavy fog at night time. It plays with the lights at the university, turning downward-facing lamps into bright cones of light, turning spherical lights »