Recently I spent a week or so in Hamilton attending Fielddays, the Southern Hemisphere’s largest agricultural show. Fielddays is always lots of fun – tens of thousands of people through the gates, hundreds of exhibitors selling everything from combine…

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This weekend my wife and I watched the movie Leave No Trace.  The plot follows a military veteran father with post-traumatic stress disorder who lives in the forest with his young daughter. The two have escaped modern society and…

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I grew up in the 1980s. Hence one of the most formative movies of my teen years was the Hollywood classic Karate Kid. For those youngsters today, there was indeed a Karate Kid movie back in the 80s long…

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I started my foray into the tech sector around 2006. Back then Facebook was a little-known website for US college students. The height of mobile coolness was the Blackberry with its physical keyboard. And software updates were delivered by…

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Here in New Zealand, we have a proud history of filmmaking. While many believe this history started recently with Peter Jackson and the Lord of the Rings mega-franchise, it goes back far further than that. Perhaps one of the…

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I’m pretty well known for taking some strong positions on… well, on almost everything. Historically these positions have resulted in me burning the odd bridge. In my defence, I’m more than happy to change position. As a former colleague…

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Going for a run at 5 o’clock in the morning is awesome. There’s no one around other than our local rural mail contractor, the birds are still asleep and all I hear are my footsteps and the crunch of…

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There is a tendency in people of a certain age to lament the ways younger individuals think and act. They see the younger generation as frivolous, self-absorbed, ignorant and lazy. And those are the more moderate traits with which…

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I like helping people. I’m sure my therapist would suggest that my willingness to do stuff for others, is a function of some deep-seated psychological issues related to my parents, my extended thumb-sucking or the star sign under which…

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Pretty much all the answers in the world are to be found at C4 Coffee most weekday mornings from 8am. At that time, a group of decidedly white, decidedly middle-aged and decidedly male individuals meats to imbibe coffee and…

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