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Dunedin residents call for change

July 25, 2010

As you know, I’m standing for Dunedin City Council in the upcoming elections with Greater Dunedin. Several people have asked me for my opinion on the the current Council. Rather than just a soapbox from me (happy to do that too, involves repeated use of the word debacle), I’d rather look at what Dunedin […]

Dunedin Digital Strategy: Content needs process; upscale Capability; add Catalyst

July 16, 2010

Here’s my submission on the Dunedin Digital Strategy. I applaud the development of this document, its direction and all the initiatives described. I do, however, have two areas of concern: Content; and Capability, and suggest a new project area: Catalyst. Content The strategy describes worthwhile projects to increase DCC content on the web. Unfortunately, this […]

Almost 350

October 23, 2009

Including sleep, there’s 15 hours until we have to be coherent and on show for 350. Student projects are rapidly emerging and getting hurried testing (hopefully not too hurried!). If you’re in Dunedin, come and see us at the Spring Festival. (more Flickr images).

Bill McKibben’s 350ppm at 46 South

May 1, 2009

We had Bill McKibben visiting work yesterday. He gave a good talk and stayed for lunch. Bill has been in Wanaka and started his talk with a compelling story of an experience in Tibet, of glaciers melting and significantly changing landscape in an area that provides the water supply for a huge proportion of […]

eDay Dunedin

October 4, 2008

Flickr pics We called down to the Dunedin branch of eDay today. It was fantastically organised and everyone was in good spirits – well done Cath and Ros. Here’s the slideshow. I was struck by the volume of CRT monitors (far exceeding the number of boxes). Many of the screens seemed to be […]