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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 (th

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 to be relevan

This post first appeared on my personal blog, published on 15/8/2012.

This article originally appeared on my personal blog, posted on 16/10/2014.

If you want to create lists with legal style numbering, here's a way to do it. It's quick, clean, and tidy. It results in lists that automatically do this sort of thing: