November 2010
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Japan Day 6
Another fantastic day in Japanistan! We headed out west to Studio Ghibli, where we saw all manner of awesome things but were unfortunately not allowed to photograph. I managed to take a few sneaky snaps while outdoors where it seemed like it was okay. After that Manda, Terence (yeah — we met up with Terence!) and I peeled off back to Yotsuya where we went to an awesome little basement restaurant...
Nov 25th
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Japan Day 5
I can very easily imagine myself living in Japan. Either Kyoto or Tokyo - I’m not that fussy. Today on our travels I think I found the place I’d most like to live, though: Shimokitazawa. According to Wikipedia Shimokitazawa is where all the stage-theatre and live music is at. We noticed lots of awesome op shops, cafes, bars and interesting looking little bars. This morning was spent...
Nov 24th
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Japan Day 4
These boots definately aren’t made for walking… My feet are in pain but the rest of me is stoked! Tokyo is an amazing place. So many people stuffed into this city and everything runs flawlessly. Other cities can (and should) learn a lot from Japan. Anyway — enough of my mindless bullshit. Here are some photos from day 4. Yotsuya View from our hotel room at the Mitsui Garden Hotel ...
Nov 23rd
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Japan Day 3
Today was mainly a day of travel by foot and by rail. We left Kyoto and traveled by Shinkansen (bullet train) to Tokyo. This took a couple hours and was totally fucking awesome! Once in Tokyo we navigated our way around the city rail and subways to get to our hotel which is in Yotsuya, and a very nice hotel indeed. Just behind it in the narrow back streets there are heaps of awesome restaurants...
Nov 22nd
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Japan Day 2
Today was about two things: Cycling & Culture. Amanda organised an excellent day out for us: a half-day cycle tour around Kyoto (via the back streets.) Kyoto is a dream to cycle around: flat, cycle friendly and today the weather was designed for cycling; a lovely 17°C and clear blue skies. But before we get to that I’ll show you what we had for breakfast. Japanese Style Breakfast ...
Nov 20th
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Japan Day 1
Ambitious, I know. But I really need to document this trip. So my plan is to take photos every day with my trusty iPhone, perform some crafty edits with Camera +. Once that’s done I’m going to put them up here for future generations… or at least my friends & family. So without further a-do… A pretty uneventful 11½ hour flight from Auckland to Osaka Oh yeah, the...
Nov 20th
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Nov 18th
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I'm not a "fucking cyclist". I'm Ruby's daddy, on... →
Nov 17th
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“Emusic built up its user base by catering to indie music fans, so signing up...”
– Dub dot dash: Don’t stop the music Emusic has been on a steady decline… this is the final straw.
Nov 17th
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Nov 16th
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“Unfortunately for Corgan’s thesis, Pavement’s reunion gigs are...”
– Billy Corgan brands Pavement ‘sell-outs’ | Music | guardian.co.uk
Nov 16th
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david: Gorgeous/Fascinating photos from Google Street View.
Nov 14th
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HTML5 Boilerplate TextMate Template Bundles
Hey Mac web front-end nerds — look here! I’ve created HTML5 Boilerplate TextMate Template Bundles. I’m a big fan on the HTML5 Boilerplate created by Paul Irish and Divya Manian. If you don’t know what it is then I suggest you jump over to the official website and educate yourself. To install: simply unzip the file and double click the bundle file. Then in TextMate go: File...
Nov 11th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 9th
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Flickruppa • iPhoto export to Flickr. Simplified. →
If you use iPhoto 8+ and Flickr then you should check out this awesome plugin.  Allows for simple export from iPhoto to Flickr (including EXIF, background uploading, GPS location, videos, sets, etc, etc, etc…) Brought to you by the same madman who built Charles, Birdbrain, Mobile Fotos, etc
Nov 8th
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“There are a number of articles and blog posts out there trying to explain scope...”
– Explaining JavaScript scope and closures - Robert’s talk
Nov 7th
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Zepto.js →
matthewb: Jim Ray: Thomas Fuchs has created exactly what jQuery mobile should be — a lightweight framework that does away with a lot of the cross-platform cruft that weighs down jQuery, designed just for mobile. It also does away with all of the fake, timing-based animations that most javascript frameworks use and shifts animations and transitions to CSS3. It’s even got touch events! What’s...
Nov 7th
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Nov 4th
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“And once we’re at the NUI phase we will have accomplished a rather...”
– Sentient Developments: The most significant technological developments of the next 20 years I can’t wait!
Nov 3rd
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Nov 1st
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