by JAK | Oct 23, 2026 | WordPress
Earlier this week there was a high profile news story about PHP versions. As one of the hosting companies says “Another day, another vulnerability” typically these changes are managed in the background every week now. The reality is that your hosting...
by JAK | Mar 9, 2026 | big ideas, culture
Just recently Rebecca Solnit gave an interview to the NYT where she stated that “changing the world is more like caregiving than like war”. Here is that video clip. From the intro on YouTube. “Solnit has written a new book, “The Beginning Comes After...
by JAK | Mar 8, 2026 | culture, music
Back in 2018 I was shocked when Anthony Bourdain died in mid flight as it were. I started writing this 7 years ago but never pushed publish. Hearing about his death was a shock because he seemed so much larger than life and the TV personality was generally resilient...
by JAK | Nov 27, 2025 | community, development
Back in October 2021 I moved from Auckland to North Otago for family reasons. It was literally the first week that we could travel but I still needed a permission slip (because of Covid controls) to be inspected by police upon the exit from Auckland. For the last 2...
by JAK | Jul 12, 2025 | culture
Doublespeak is alive and well in Aotearoa NZ in 2025 and so are double standards. It is deeply ironic and dishonest to claim that your project is an attempt to setup principles that would result in better design of laws while at the same time trashing the actual...
by JAK | Jun 13, 2025 | big ideas, industry futures
A couple of weeks ago I was over in Queenstown for the Electrify Queenstown conference. Here are some of my notes. “Electrify Queenstown is a three-day event that brings together community, business, government, and industry to accelerate the transition to a...
by JAK | Jun 17, 2024 | culture, music
Back in the 80’s one of my flatmates worked for a high end audio store. He would sell Linn turntables and similar for what seemed like an absolute fortune. The payoff for our house was that we got to try out some great speaker / amplifier combinations of all...
by JAK | May 15, 2024 | big ideas, industry futures
It seems like the mainstream media stories are missing most of the good news about solar, wind and batteries ( renewables) dramatically improving the electricity generation future for NZ and many other countries. Because I am working on some futures type projects I...
by JAK | May 14, 2024 | big ideas, industry futures
Back in the 90’s early 2000’s I found myself at the BHP training centre in Victoria. I was there as part of an in house training thing for some consulting group that I worked at for a while. The point is – there was a swimming pool and the NZ team...
by JAK | Feb 19, 2024 | big ideas, development
From RethinkX “”We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most profound disruption of the energy sector in over a century. Like most disruptions, this one is being driven by the convergence of several key technologies whose costs and capabilities have...
