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I am reading Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal — her first novel. It is much more listenable than The Luminaries. in other news, I am doing a big archiving project that is taking much of my time. I am digitising my whole childhood of reading from Cassettes. It was a very English childhood of reading with some American [...]

I’m going north!

As I write this I am heading to Northland to spend a few days with my friends, Collin and Di brown. Intercity Northliner finally has WiFi on the bus so I am using it to publish this blog post. In other news I am learning the repertoire for level 4 of the SM programme. my [...]

Selfie sticks are banned — wtf?

Fuck — what happened to the selfie stick? I read in the herald that the palais de Versailles has banned selfie sticks. The Louvre, also inParis, hasn’t but is reviewing its photography policy constantly. I was saddened to hear this. I got a selfie stick for my birthday and find it vuseful. I also have a tripod [...]

What? Buffer?

Interesting, I was reading this book, “The Art of Social media” author forgotten. But it talks about some interesting apps. One of them is called Buffer. That’s an app that I think some folks I associate with actually need. Essentially it’s a scheduler and composer for Twitter, FaceBook and other social networks. It’s really rather [...]

Vine acting weird

I recently got back into Vine. That thing owned by twitter that lets one make video loops of between 3 and 6 seconds. I have put stuff up there before and folks seem to like it. So I thought I would renew my relationship with Vine. That’s all fine until it starts acting a little [...]

Braille app

It seems rather cynical to write and tell you all that there is a new braille app for the iPad. Well there is. It’s called ibraille notes and is exclusively for the iPad. And I am very impressed. First off the app has backspace and new line keys. This is a plus. The premise is [...]

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