November 2007
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disappointment
I came into work this morning to some bad news: due to personal reasons, my internet heroes Derek Powazek and Heather Powazek Champ will not be able to make it to Webstock. This means no photo workshop with them and no speaking spots during the conference.
Derek and Heather have long been heroes for a number of reasons - their involvement in projects like the Mirror Project, JPG, Fray and...
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barcamp auckland announced
If you haven’t already heard, Auckland will have the inaugural Auckland BarCamp on December 15th - I know, I know, you’ll have a hangover from your work Christmas party, right? Well, drink some water before bed and come on along.
BarCamp is a web community ‘un-conference‘, where there is no set list of speakers or seminars. Instead, the people attending become the speakers and generate the...
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don't reinvent the book
It’s pretty similar to the saying “we don’t need to reinvent the wheel” - books are not something I consider needing reinvention or real change. There is a great Newsweek article on the new Amazon product, Kindle, which raises a huge amount of points about the potential future of the book, most which I disagree with.
Call me a traditionalist - I don’t see it as a perjorative term in this context....
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planning menus
I’ve explained this to a few people lately and thought I’d post it here in case anyone else is interested in this idea: we plan our menu week to week by using Google Calendar.
How we do it
Find recipes we like, either in cookbooks or magazines
Create an event in our shared Google Calendar with the name of the recipe. We add the recipe reference & main ingredients into the details of the...