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These are the speaking notes to accompany my presentation to Christchurch City Council on the "Westmorland cycle connection" as part of the "

The following is a list of articles (in roughly reverse date order, most recent at the top) from (primarily) the Aoteoroa New Zealand media concerning public service IT, whether it be in government

I think this stadium concept  - a large, covered, 25-30k seat stadium, within the Central Business District (CBD) is a travesty, and a failure of leadership and good sense.

Today, waiting to meet a young friend to cycle to school with my younger boy and me, we watched the morning rush hour traffic on a fairly busy road between us and school.

I recently ran into an issue upgrading a Ubuntu 18.04-powered server I run. I usually run the following command:

The government of Aotearoa New Zealand has just put out a request for suggstions on shaping th

I'm a parent with two children in public schools in Christchurch, NZ. I'm also a software developer with an interest in education.

So, another community with which I have a long history as a paying member, this one with the mission of "preserving the free and open Internet" in my home country, has decided to adopt Slack as it'

Ten years after the fact, I decided it was time to write down my experience of the big quake that hit Christchurch city and the broader Canterbury region at 12:51 pm on 22 February 2011.

Over the past few years, it's gradually occurred to me that we're in the midst of a new Dark Age.