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This guide makes the assumption that you, the reader, are living in New Zealand. I will be referring to a few New Zealand services and platforms, but for any international readers from other countries, I would highly recommend getting to know sites such as eBay (USA, UK, Europe), Craigslist (USA, UK) and your local PC shop that sells Ex Lease machines (this is very important) The difference between business and consumer machines is simple. Business machines, built for enterprise environments, a...

With just a little bit of Javascript and HTML, it is possible to set up Google Docs as your WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor and CMS (Content Management System).Why would anyone use this you might ask? I am not sure, but the idea that anyone who had some familiarity with a Word processor (be it Microsoft Word or Google Docs) could design and publish content to their website with relative ease seemed pretty cool to me.This is the base HTML and Javascript that you'll need:<!DOCT...

Here's a question: what is it about bad drivers in Auckland? Last weekend alone 26 people died on the roads, 26! I do a fair amount of driving across Auckland during the week. From my own personal experience, I have found that there are bad driver EVERYWHERE I go. It doesn't matter what suburb, it doesn't matter what time, there are gonna be some super shitty drivers on the roads. Many people are driving far too recklessly. Tailgating, speeding, running red lights, illegal U-turns, cutting o...

Aotearoa NZ is awesome for coffee. I haven't done much travelling overseas, but have done a little bit in Europe, Asia and Australia. Wellington and Auckland seem to outshine everywhere else in the world when it comes to coffee. The specialty coffee places and roasteries here are very high quality. It's all organic, fair trade, single origin etc etc, and the branding for some of them are beautiful. I've always liked coffee but only really started learning more about what is involved with runn...

There's all kinds of nasty stuff out there on the Internet. Scammers, hackers, bots and creepers galore! Keep yourself safe with these simple hints for browsing the web. If you are using a desktop computer, try out the following (this can be done on Windows, MacOS or GNU/Linux): use a free, open source web browser such as Firefox or Brave. Firefox isn't the slow web browser that was second to Chrome anymore! Since it's Quantum update, stock Firefox now loads and renders pages much, much fa...

These are some notes I wrote in the process of securing my phone. The “most secure phone” doesn’t exist. Any current phone carries some level of security risk, and not carrying one at all is the safest option. However, this isn’t really a viable choice for people today, so the following notes are for those that want a phone but are concerned about their opsec. For a phone, I recommend any iPhone that is newer than the 5S. Older iPhones don’t contain Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips that a...

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