It kinda goes back to something I wrote in Germany last year which is here..
Anyway to clear the mind I made a wee advert and sent off an email. Thanks to Mark for the photo, love that Mark. And Nico to for the biceps.
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Being Green
I went to the Green Party meeting in Cromwell on the weekend and it got me riled up again about how, for me, the Green Party even thought my natural colour does not sit easy in my stomach.
It kinda goes back to something I wrote in Germany last year which is here..
Anyway to clear the mind I made a wee advert and sent off an email. Thanks to Mark for the photo, love that Mark. And Nico to for the biceps.
It kinda goes back to something I wrote in Germany last year which is here..
Anyway to clear the mind I made a wee advert and sent off an email. Thanks to Mark for the photo, love that Mark. And Nico to for the biceps.
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
New job!
I started my new job at Wanaka Wastebusters world HQ yesterday, two days a week - Tuesday and Wednesdays. I'm not sure of my title yet but I am gunning for Chief Disruptor. I am perfectly qualified for the post anyway.
And what will this entail? Well it is a mix of moving the office processes forward into the 2000's based on what worked at Cactus and making some of the more esoteric projects reality using what I have learned with Cooreea. Very exciting.
I feel extremely lucky to be in this position and I am pretty sure it is going to work out..very well.
And what will this entail? Well it is a mix of moving the office processes forward into the 2000's based on what worked at Cactus and making some of the more esoteric projects reality using what I have learned with Cooreea. Very exciting.
I feel extremely lucky to be in this position and I am pretty sure it is going to work out..very well.
Sunday, 22 February 2009
Displaylink - Finally
I went looking to buy a new monitor today - and ran into something interesting. I rarely get excited about new hardware...but...I imagined something like this four years ago and now it's here!
I always thought monitors would ultimately be a similar resource to a computer as a webcam, keyboard or mouse. Imagine getting rid of the annoying cables and being able to chain them together USB style or use small 2.4ghz wireless connectors. Your monitor could be on the other side of the lounge and you could play your movie to it from your laptop with no string connected. Ah bliss - they are here.
http://www.displaylink.com/
There are only Asus ones in NZ so far I think, and surprisingly Dell doesn't show any. I think I'll have to wait till there is a bigger range...
I always thought monitors would ultimately be a similar resource to a computer as a webcam, keyboard or mouse. Imagine getting rid of the annoying cables and being able to chain them together USB style or use small 2.4ghz wireless connectors. Your monitor could be on the other side of the lounge and you could play your movie to it from your laptop with no string connected. Ah bliss - they are here.
http://www.displaylink.com/
There are only Asus ones in NZ so far I think, and surprisingly Dell doesn't show any. I think I'll have to wait till there is a bigger range...
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Ubuntu, VMware and Graphics applications
I have had an excellent experience running Ubuntu under VMPlayer on XP as my development webserver. It's faster than WAMP and easily transportable.
So, when it came to rebooting Merles Dell 1330 which has had consistent networking issues with Vista I thought, hell, we could have Ubuntu running on the wee guy and Vista running as a guest under VM.
This would have the benefit of the guest being easily back-up-able with the apps installed and transportable across computers.
Turns out that is good in theory and not in practice, mainly because running graphics apps is so ram hungry (I think). Vista with apps took up over 20gb and was crazy slow.
So it is back to Vista, a shame because Ubuntu 8.10 was amazing. It recognised all the hardware first go and was a fast joy to use.
So, when it came to rebooting Merles Dell 1330 which has had consistent networking issues with Vista I thought, hell, we could have Ubuntu running on the wee guy and Vista running as a guest under VM.
This would have the benefit of the guest being easily back-up-able with the apps installed and transportable across computers.
Turns out that is good in theory and not in practice, mainly because running graphics apps is so ram hungry (I think). Vista with apps took up over 20gb and was crazy slow.
So it is back to Vista, a shame because Ubuntu 8.10 was amazing. It recognised all the hardware first go and was a fast joy to use.
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Darwin and Spark
One of my current projects with Merle is doing a brand and graphic scheme for "On the Road Recycling", an initiative of CBEC through Remarkable Recyclers.
The challenge is to, in a positive light, make people on holiday want to engage with the recycling system: buy a pre-paid plastic bag, fill it as they travel and deliver it to a participating recycle centre.
I do not like the word 'waste' and if I had my way it would be replaced with 'resource'. In our brainstorming and sketching I have been playing with portraying the items you may recycle as something that has it's own will, it's own journey it wants to go on.
The challenge is to, in a positive light, make people on holiday want to engage with the recycling system: buy a pre-paid plastic bag, fill it as they travel and deliver it to a participating recycle centre.
I do not like the word 'waste' and if I had my way it would be replaced with 'resource'. In our brainstorming and sketching I have been playing with portraying the items you may recycle as something that has it's own will, it's own journey it wants to go on.
Bernina 730 - Finally
I have been holding a mint Bernina 30 series in my 'wanted' list for a few years now. I thought it was going to arrive at the recycling centre but in the end it was a Trademe job, a present from my Grandma Gee through my Mum, Mum has had hers since the late 1960's and it is still going strong.
The Bernina 30 series are famous and this 730 was originally purchased in Hokitika on the 28th Feb, 1964 (it still has the manual and warranty), and I reckon since then it can not have had more than a few hundred hours running.
Like all machinery that has been sitting around it needed a good oil. The top access door wouldn't open, and I discovered a capacitor in the motor that was broken. I posted questions to the BerninaThirtySomethings newsgroup on Yahoo and within hours had expert advice from around the globe, problems fixed.
It still has a slight drag in the action, but it sews well so we'll see over th enext few months how it goes. First up? Curtains for winter and a skirt for Merles growing belly ;-)
The Bernina 30 series are famous and this 730 was originally purchased in Hokitika on the 28th Feb, 1964 (it still has the manual and warranty), and I reckon since then it can not have had more than a few hundred hours running.
Like all machinery that has been sitting around it needed a good oil. The top access door wouldn't open, and I discovered a capacitor in the motor that was broken. I posted questions to the BerninaThirtySomethings newsgroup on Yahoo and within hours had expert advice from around the globe, problems fixed.It still has a slight drag in the action, but it sews well so we'll see over th enext few months how it goes. First up? Curtains for winter and a skirt for Merles growing belly ;-)
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