dave's blog

My response to Ian's blog post supporting online voting:

Last week I was able to participate in a "deputation" of concerned citizens (who happen to have a pretty strong set of software development credentials, as well as running bespoke develop

A democratic society can only function when the actors in that democracy, the citizen/voters, have trust in the mechanisms of that democracy.

Greg James of IRD (NZ's tax department for anyone not from NZ) has chosen to replace the current obsolete, unmaintainable monolithic bespoke software system

I am reminded of a story about a chimpanzee who has only ever known a world inside an underground laboratory.

At the recent NetHui conference in Auckland last week (8-10 July 2015), in a session titled "

Yesterday, my local MP, Nicky Wagner, did me the courtesy of returning my phone call to her office the day before asking to speak with her about the

The word "Open" is appearing all over the marketing sphere these days.

This is a story about the sort of "open" that matters to me, and how I got to this point.

This post is about the apparently mysterious art of indicating (that's "using your blinkers" for any Americans reading this) when driving on New Zealand roads (although this is likely