been using Ghost for so long I'm still on a now no longer available plan. Not an active writer, but the interface is clean, themes are tidy and it all just works.
Which is nice.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

You’re being very inflexible about doing everything in a microwave & that won’t serve you well in the new microwave era. We all know that a microwave is the solution for everything, has no underlying problems & the rate of progress on microwaves will be infinite.
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

Black t-shirt on wood plank background. White text on the shirt reads "You wouldn't steal a succulent Chinese meal"

IYKYK.

all just words I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take When people run in circles It's a very, very mad world, mad world

Words written in 2018.
Words posted in 2025.

The stories, constructed as they are, are reminders of who we were, and who we no longer need to be. And that's OK.

www.continue.nz/all-just-wor...

on not losing If we believe Aotearoa New Zealand is a Pacific nation - then what choices as leaders can and must we make.

Some words, as I take my leave of Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.
Words in keeping with the theme of Matariki mā Puanga I hope.
Of reflection and living in a moment.

www.continue.nz/on-not-losing/

Dear Mike an open letter to Mr Hosking in the wake of the PM pulling the ponytail of a waitress

As Mr Hosking turns his ire on Jacinda Ardern and her book, I'm reminded of what I wrote in 2015.

Of men in power, the waving away of behaviour, the sneering at women, all wrapped in a media friendly package.

The challenge remains the same.

www.continue.nz/dear-mike/

✊🏽@alisonmau.bsky.social

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.

In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it.

Care loudly. Tell others. Get going."

dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

"History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."

- Lord John Whorfin in 'The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension'

See also DL Moody.

Relevant across this dimension also.

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

"This is and has always been a company of risk-takers who are unafraid to move fast and break things.

Or at least, that’s what I thought, until a bunch of you started bringing up the many merits of proceeding cautiously and keeping things unbroken."

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

Missing One week before the planes flew into the towers, I secured my first full-time, salaried job. I had applied to work for the New York City Parks Department at the suggestion of my roommate, Ethan. He’d ...

"I finally saw the reality of loss—it doesn’t go away quickly. You can clean it up, you can repair the sidewalks, you can put on a pearl necklace and pretend you’re an adult—and maybe even become one—but the person is still missing, the towers are still gone."

www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/593...

you are strong The truth is, you matter more right now than ever before. The truth is, your skin is beautiful and you are seen.

Issue 19 of @sachajudd.com's 'what you love matters' reminded me of this post I wrote in 2020.
Still one of my all time favourite YT videos. Still criminally underviewed.
Also - subscribe to Sacha's newsletter (email and RSS FTW) - it's ace: newsletter.sachajudd.com
www.continue.nz/you-are-stro...

Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds - Christopher Butler When the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the notion of an “everything device” was universally celebrated. A single object that could serve as

"The digital echoes of our actions will likely continue to multiply, but we can choose which echoes we’re willing to generate and which activities deserve to remain ephemeral — to exist only in the moment they occur and then in the memories of those present."

www.chrbutler.com/digital-echo...

Happy belated 16th birthday to Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin... and imagining the timeline if we'd paid more attention to John Gilmore.

www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...

www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...

Prayer for the new year Okay, 2025...

"May we mark the moment even when it seems a little embarrassing, may we talk about one another’s grief out loud, may we admit how fucking hard it is sometimes to be a person at all.
May it be so."

Via Courtney Martin. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Useful reflection on a birthday. Onwards.

"Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez"

Oh wait. Wrong canal.

Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/1...

WP post: diogenesii.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

NZETC: (now hosted by NLNZ): ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/2...

Papers Past: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...

Turtles, papercuts, citations and metadata all the way down.

The Imperfectionist: How not to freak out about the US election @media only screen { .email * { word-break: break-word; } } @media screen and (max-width: 384px) { .mail-message-content { width: 414px !important; } } @media only screen and (m...

"“Start close in. Don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in… start with the ground you know, the pale ground beneath your feet.”
-David Whyte

via Oliver Burkeman

ckarchive.com/b/38uphkho8g...

This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) David Foster Wallace's remarkable 2005 commencement speech, This is Water, is a timeless trove of wisdom for living a meaningful life. Here is a full transcript along with audio.

"That is real freedom. ... The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing."
-DFW

Reflecting again that the 'alternative' is a choice.
That we get to make. Each day.
fs.blog/david-foster...

As a former educator I may have lolsobbed too much at this one.

It's the "One size fits most" detail that hits the hardest.

An exist strategy: In business, small is beautiful too | THOUGHTFUL Natasha Lampard reflects on what business would be like if we focused less on the exit and more on the exist strategy, prioritising longevity over scale.

"We can choose to remain small. We can choose to devote ourselves to something that serves and respects and delights people. We can choose to do our small things in small ways..."

2017 @tashmahal.bsky.social wrote that.
2024 me re-read it & was lifted up.

www.thisisthoughtful.com/3648/exist-s...

Text corrections on the Papers Past site went live this week.

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/help/text-co...

Very proud of the Digital Experience team here at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, whose work builds on that of Collaborative Services team.

On Wards #NLNZ #paperspast

@gnat.bsky.social FYI

news.microsoft.com/en-nz/2024/0...

I'm still thinking about the truth inherent in her words.

For what it's worth, I did finish the OIA request.

But then we went for an ice-cream.
So you know, some balance.

But kids eh? Always giving you a kick up the arse.
Bloody marvelous.

I took some leave with the family last week.

On the second day of leave I received an email with an urgent OIA request.

I told Ms 11 I would have to do a bit of work.

She looked at me and said: "Annual leave isn't when you leave the office. It's when you tell work to LEAVE you alone"

Can of beer held in a hand. Label says "Slim Hazy, Low Carb Hazy IPA"

Only 3 days late with obligatory NY salutations.
Not stuck at Northern Bass festival.
Spending time with whanau, friends, ping pong, playlists and long evenings around a 🔥 pit.
Here's to a 2024 of low carbs, hazy vibes and being excellent to one another.

Manifesto for posting online in 2023 Burn the old rule books. Keep warm by the fire.

13. Guard your energy fiercely.
14. Pour your love into the good ones.
23. Stay kind.
24. Act from generosity, every time.

meandorla.substack.com/p/manifesto-...

via @rands.bsky.social