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There can be no pretence when meeting up with an old friend, sure you may wear a quality cut suit nowadays and you may well keep your room clean and tidy; but they still see you as the spotty and badly dressed kid you were when you first met.

So it was last night, catching [...]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau of New Zealand today announced the release of the IAB/PwC Insight report for Q4, 2007. The report shows New Zealand online advertising was $135.17 million for the 2007 calendar year.

My best guess for the 07 results was around the $100m mark and this result has really blown this out.

If you [...]

You can blame Webstock 08 for the motivation to finally put virtual pen to virtual paper and begin regular updates here. This thing we do, this communication, this freedom is amazing. Although the undeniable truth is: I am going to need to practice.

The first obstacle is writing style; trying to figure out [...]

The next phase in pheasant cooking is to make the rich plum sauce. A little known fact is: not only are the French renown for fortitude and resilience in the face of hostile invasions AND national self effacing modesty, they are also not shabby in the kitchen. This rich plum sauce is based [...]

Forget chickens, forget ducks, even forget turkeys – if you want the king of roast fowl you need to get yourself a pheasant. The taste is rich and gamey and cooked well is the undisputed king of birds you can eat.

Today I am going to show you how to make a roast [...]

I am cooking a roast pheasant later on this afternoon and taking inspiration from Object Dart - I think I will put the recipe I use here.

To this end I am just playing around with how I use pictures on Wordpress - so here is hopefully a picture of the ham I cooked on [...]

It has been a big day here at Pellacor.com – I have upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.3 and installed a new theme with widgets. The photo at the top I took today on the digital camera I gave Megan for Christmas. It was taken from our apartment’s balcony of the moody sky over Wellington. [...]

During a recent conversation with an elderly woman I was told something that left me heart broken. She said the saddest thing that happened to her now she is older is people stop have stopped recognising her. She was not referring to people she knows, but how in her sixties, people on the [...]

Meme theory is the idea that every single piece of information in the world is created by a process of natural selection and evolution. Most people accept this for biological things as it is easy to see how mutations in genes can be selected for their ability to pass on copies of themselves; but [...]

I attended Webstock 2008 on Thursday and Friday last week and overall think it was a very valuable event. In fact there are a few things that I would like to go into more detail about in subsequent posts and in no particular order they are:

Mirror neurons and a memetic interpretation of the internet
My [...]