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Innovation As Infrastructure

For the first time in decades, the government has an extraordinary amount of political license available to expend on addressing key social, environmental and infrastructural problems that...

Lunch at Leeds Street Bakery, in happier times. So it’s been a long four weeks or so at Level 4 and at 11:59pm tonight we’ll be going to Level 3. For some people this means they’ll be...

Further to my guide to working from home and the 3 personal lessons therein,. Of course we’ve all zoomed (!) past the “1: Reduce the tech hurdles”, and I’ve given some thoughts* on “#2, “Don’t...

The Unjust Transition

Environmentalists, social entrepreneurs and green politicians have been warning of the need for a “just transition” to a low carbon, less damaging and more socially inclusive economy for as...

Further to my guide to working from home and the 3 lessons therein, let’s take #2, “Don’t be scared” in a bit more detail and provide 3 tips that have helped me through working at home.So, the...

It’s true to say that those in the tech industry are generally more setup, comfortable, and prepared for “working from home”, heck I’ve been running my work life “remotely” since 2006. Aren’t...

I once again embarked on the odyssey that seems to be one of Kickin’ Rad/Soap Factory’s Fringe schticks these days – an improvised soap opera, set in Wellington, with a cast of ten and new...

Oddacity promised an “award-winning, best-of spectacular with a cast of international luminaries performing stylish acts”, under the beautiful skylight in Bats’ Heyday Dome.   I wasn’t sure...

I wouldn’t necessarily say that Dungeons and Dragons has gone mainstream, but it’s become a lot more popular in the last twenty years.  It probably helps that there are so many TV shows these...

It was weird for me to go to a show at 93 Kelburn Parade, having completed my own humble BA at Vic almost 20 years ago.  In fact, #93 was the site of at least one audition and more than a few...

King George III, despite having been a learned and enthusiastic sponsor of scientific and industrial progress, a faithful husband and father, and in many ways very liberal for...

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[cross posted from news, “Connecting Should Always Be This Simple”]The OneTeamGov movement (for want of a better word) is one connecting those working within governments across...

Te Rā Aroha Press are about to launch Isa Pearl Ritchie’s Into the Labyrinth, the second of her Wellington-based YA Dreamweavers fantasy series (following on from Awa and the Dreamweavers,...

I have a prediction, voice is the next wave of ‘consumer’ computing and this will, much like cloud computing, have a subsequent pressure onto the internal workings of companies and...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the perfect pick for Summer Shakespeare, traditionally held in the Dell in Wellington’s Botanical Gardens at night in the middle of summer, but then the...

Director Carrie Thiel is seeking to “create connectivity using multimedia, motion capture and virtual reality technologies in a theatre setting.” Working with professional dancer Laura...

This is a ‘tune up’ of 2018’s STUPID BITCH which played in a dance studio above Cuba Street in the Fringe Festival. As a work in development it garnered actor/writer Claire Waldron...

TW: Suicide Jean Cocteau wrote La Voix Humaine in 1928 as a one-act play.  Francis Poulenc set it to music 30 years later, despite having already known Cocteau well for years, and gave the...

I’ll tell you what it doesn’t do, it doesn’t do anything.It’s been a released ‘feature’ since Chrome 77 (September 2019), and whilst the options are there and I can indeed choose to ‘send to’...