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I have had an opportunity recently to be exposed to people I haven’t, in the course of things, had to deal with in quite some time. In truth it has taken me back to my therapy days and the long hours of discourse covering irrelevant events in a long distant past.

These people have [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The first iteration of A blog post developed using Agile Methodology has been rolled out, and here it is, sure it might not look like much now, but the core functionality agreed is included and the team believe we can deliver a useful and informative piece of software/writing.

Initially the team is made up [...]

I have reached the conclusion that pellacor is not the best release valve for my thoughts about the future of the media industry, and particularly not in the form of presrciptive opinions below. I realise that the you guys are fucking shit up attitude helps no one and I intend on working slowly and [...]

For those that don’t know me personally: I manage the New Media Business at the New Zealand Press Association, and about half my job is business development, the other half is online news strategy and project management.

But news for me isn’t just my job, it’s my passion, it’s my love that stretches from [...]

Now I have pellacor up and running; and slowly begin to develop the style and voice here: offline I have been experimenting with different forms of written expression trying to find ways to free up the written language from the tight constraints of syntax.

On a couple of occasions this has been sitting up [...]

I had a conversation last week with the New Zealand Olympic Committee about the possibility of supplying some content onto their site for the games in Beijing. They said they would be open to it in the future, but had hired their own writer for the Olympics. I kinda suggested that maybe content [...]