Category Archive: technology

312 – Reflection

312 – Reflection

How do we get better at what we do? What if we’re pretty good already? What if we’re actually very good at what we do? I …

 

307 – Pure gold

307 – Pure gold

How completely beautiful. This afternoon I took the pear and quince juice my sister Gillian brought us and made jelly. Jam is good, but jelly …

 

300 – Right angle

300 – Right angle

How we seek the right angle. I don’t mean the 90o kind of right angle, I mean the kind of edge to get things done. …

 

269 – Close the pod doors, HAL

269 – Close the pod doors, HAL

There are the faint echoes of Strauss about the foyer of the Wellington City Council buildings in the evening. There should be a black, light …

 

138 – Strangers No More

138 – Strangers No More

Seven days ago we arrived strangers. After being challenged, photographing only each other and a lot of critiquing … something happened. We discovered new perspectives of each …

 

134 – Fish of the Day

134 – Fish of the Day

I kept a marine aquarium for many years. I never kept crayfish – rock lobsters – like the one here – I suspect they’d be …

 

118 – Messages from afar

118 – Messages from afar

My parents, who, by the way, have been married for 56 years, came to this country as newlyweds to create a life for themselves and …

 

104 – Belated birthday presents

104 – Belated birthday presents

Imagine … it’s late at night here in Wellington and I’m sitting in bed working on my laptop. At the same moment it’s morning in …

 

092 – Along came George

092 – Along came George

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke There are many electrical appliances (aka energy leeches) we use every day that have been …

 

043 – Tools of the trade

043 – Tools of the trade

After a couple of visits from the nice house call car doctors we decided we should take our car in for a service to try …