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The world in our office

March 28, 2012 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Wellington is quite far away from many other places and thus knowing the correct time where our colleagues are, when we can reach clients or when we can schedule a server outage is a necessity. With today’s new fangled technology viewing predefined time zones is just a mouse click away. But it doesn’t look as […]

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You are among geeks when…

January 31, 2012 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

One of our developers is going to be a dad real soon. His waiting stirred the creative juices among the other developers. Brett came up with the following “from conception to birth” scenario à la version control system (used with permission): mkdir baby cd baby git init . awk ‘BEGIN { s=”ACGT”; genes=””; srand(); for […]

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A weekend amongst hackers

November 9, 2011November 10, 2011 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Blackhat, whitehat, rootkit, cyber security, and bugs are just some of the terms that flew around my head the past weekend because I went to Kiwicon V. Having gone already last year, I kind of knew what to expect and was very much looking forward to 2 days of technical bombardment interspersed with demos of […]

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I helped fill the Basin for Christchurch

March 13, 2011 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Today, the cre?me de la cre?me of (New Zealand) cricket, other sports and actors played the charity Twenty20 match “Fill the Basin for Christchurch” in beautiful Wellington summer weather. New Zealand’s premier and traditional cricket ground The Basin Reserve in the city was an ideal place to hold this match. 12,000 tickets were sold (2,000 […]

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Coffee on fire

December 9, 2010 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Wellingtonians have ingenious ideas when it comes to coffee, serving it, and finding cool locations for a cafe. This coffee shop “Flight Coffee” in an old fire truck is the latest addition to the coffee shop scene in New Zealand’s capital.

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