Archive for June, 2008

This one for my Megan

Sam -

There are three things I love the most about working in the world of the webs

It is dynamic
The online environment changes so fast so it is never boring, there are always new ideas, and new ways of working through issues and the scope for positive change seems endless. Every job has its good [...]

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Teh webs is serious business (for communication)

Sam -

Pellacor has descended into what I described to someone recently as Sam’s personal playpen on the internet; but as outlets for creative activities and self-absorbed drivel go, I think it serves its purpose well. I am yet to hammer the voice into a cohesive and congruent whole but it is still early days and, [...]

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Freak the funk, hype the funk, swipe the funk - and all that junk

Sam -

Dealing with the back lash of atmospheric carbon increase is, without a global consensus on green house gas emissions, most likely not going to work out and the first victims are undoubtedly the slow evolving multi-cellular life we share this planet with.
I am sure insects will be okay, they have latent (ie unexpressed but [...]

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The Harbour City capitol, the lights beside the sea

Sam -

AKA The John Crowley Recipe for Cooking a Mutton-Bird – Step 2 – vegetables and grilling (Step 1 here).
Beans and yams with roast potatoes, seemed like a good idea for vegetables but I feel I need to admit I am also making a rich fig sauce to accompany the mutton-bird, however, due to issues to [...]

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The suits and the briefcases along Lambton Quay

Sam -

The title of this post should really be The John Crowley Recipe for Cooking a Mutton-Bird – Step 1 – boiling the bird (twice), but I think Salty is the best NZ album ever, and the album name acts very well as an adjective for the band sakes’ taste.
Mutton-Birds are very interesting; they [...]

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My first IT job eva

Sam -

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[intro]
My IT career started aged 7; on a ZX-81, without the 13k memory expansion. However with the quote machine unquote, I was also given books containing an introduction to programming. My programming skilz increased exponentially, until my first graphic application; unsurprisingly a game.
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[build]
No matter what I did I couldn’t get [...]

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This is the planet of sound

Sam -

Some say there are two certain things: death and taxes, and undertaking doesn’t appeal. I don’t know if you have had the time to read it but there is a sentence in my about page which I think defines communication and it reads: Communication is not just information - it explicitly and implicitly defines [...]

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