- View from my Hotel Room, TechEd 2010
- 2010: Voting for Liberals
- Day 2 Keynote, Pycon-au
- Absolute Power
- Shibuya, Photosynth
- You are being watched.
- Long Love Affair with Lego
- Experimenting with visitmix.com lab’s Gestalt
- Saint Shenanigans
- Speed, Quality, Cheap. Pick any Two.
- State of Software Design in NSW HSC
- It is not the Apple Tablet, it is the Store
- Facial Update
- Why the Quietness?
- What does Transparency mean to me?
- The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over.
- #auteched week begin
- Twenty Years Ago Today
- Where is Nick?
- Sanity Prevails
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« Previous EntriesHello (Goodbye) Sandy Allen
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Sandy Allen passes away. Hello Sandy Allen The World’s Tallest Woman We made friends in New York I do hope you remember I’m bound to say I felt uneasy When I first laid eyes on you But I liked the way you talked Like a live-in-hoper Towering over our heads In more ways than one (Neil Finn, Sandy Allen)
Neil Finn, Nick Seymour on Enough Rope
Monday, July 30th, 2007Whilst in Japan, Neil Finn and Nick Seymour were interviewed by Andrew Denton on Enough Rope. Andrew Denton: we don’t use Wikipedia for Research. Jon Casimir strikes again!
Neil Finn Lyric Server goes Mashup
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007The Microsoft PopFly alpha can make you lose three days. In a good way. I haven’t had so much fun since, well, Photoshop maybe. I’ve created a public PopFly “Block” called NeilFinnLyrics (now shared) this is bare, bare bones. It simply uses the new REST interface to the Random Neil Finn Lyric Server. The Lyric […]
Neil Finn’s Favourite Songwriters
Saturday, June 9th, 2007Neil Finn quoted from spinner.com, top 5 song writers: Bob Marley John Lennon Paul McCartney David Bowie Neil Young I am not a major Bob Marley fan, and Neil Young is a little too folksy for me. The others: Lennon/McCartney and Bowie. Yes.
Random Neil Finn Lyric Server
Sunday, May 13th, 2007All Lyrics are Copyright their respective Copyright holders. Fast Start: To get an lyrics superimposed on image, use the following URL: http://nickhodge.com/finnwords.jpg For JSON, use the following URL: http://nickhodge.com/finnwords.json For SOAP, use the following URL to get the WSDL http://nickhodge.com/finnwords.wsdl Simple XML, use the following URL: http://nickhodge.com/finnwords.xml Background In 2002 I had a brainwave whilst driving to work. I […]
Neil Finn on Bro’Town
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Neil Finn enters NZ’s famous Bro’Town.
Gadget Geek Journey; Desintation 2: Vista Sidebar Gadget
Saturday, January 6th, 2007What an interesting day with Windows Vista. It is certainly “polished” than Windows 2000 and XP; things seems to be placed in logical areas. Also took the opportunity to install Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta, which worked flawlessly — all running successfully in Parallels! Two computers in one is a major time saver. It was also time […]
Gadget Geek Journey; Desintation 1: live.com
Thursday, January 4th, 2007Time to get serious on my resolutions. Well, at least one anyway; I’ll start the waist shrinking/walking later. It’s Thursday Geekout time! Inspired by Robert Scoble’s Podtech.net live.com gadget posting, and a general feeling that gadgets are where it is at for non-professional programmers like myself. So, first port-of-call http://gallery.live.com/ then on to the Developer […]
Audio Therapy
Thursday, December 7th, 2006Take a look at Neil Finn’s Celebrity Playlist on iTunes. Purchase/Buy as a gift the Farewell to the World 10 Years Anniversary CD or DVD. Listen, and think of Paul Hester. What a waste of talent. Shed a tear. Then donate to BeyondBlue.
Neil Finn on Piha
Sunday, May 21st, 2006Neil Finn on Piha, the western coast of the North Island of New Zealand: is the perfect home for tortured souls…
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