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As I have in previous years here is a quick analysis of the election vote and result. This is based on the Detail Report that was posted on the night of the election. Background The InternetNZ board was electing 2 board members in August 2026 via the STV method. There were a total of nine Continue reading InternetNZ Board Election 2026 Analysis
The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs Not a convention band biography but more an explanation on their influences and thinking. Fascinating, funny and a fun read. 4/5 The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty Covers the development, Continue reading AudioBooks March, April 2026
The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich The story of John C. Houbolt, a NASA engineer who pushed for Lunar Orbit Rendezvous for the Apollo program. Just 3 hours long but interesting. 3/5 Who Owns This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos Alexandre Montagu A Continue reading Audiobooks January, February 2026
Celebrating Calligraphy by Jenni Aldred Leaving Lórien by Stephen Vrettos
Love and Power an Poetics of Tom Bombadil by Corey Olsen The Hands of the King and the Royal Touch: Cutting Edge Research from The Gondor Journal of Medicine by Scott Kirton Midsummer in Middle-Earth by Trudy Shannon “Circle of Light” – A Faërie Rock Opera by Anna Grob
Celebrating Middle-Earth on the Table-Top: An exploration of the Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game by Tim Wraight A Comparison of Duels: Tolkien’s Legendarium and the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period by Karolina Firman Finrod Felagund and Severus Snape as Saviour Heroes in the Context of Universal Plot Structures by Evelina Timofeeva
Fixing a misconfigured Kubernetes Cluster by Rob Kenefeck Everything Open Everywhere All At Once by Steven De Costa Lightning Talks
Open source can have friends everywhere by Emma Davidson Books-As-Code by Alec Clews So You ve Decided to Build It Yourself by Leesa Ward
My degoogled life by Joshua Hesketh
Peak Text: AI and the Golden Age of Libraries and Archives by Keir Winesmith The Evolution of the OCI Artifact Revolution by Andrew Block README: The Developer s forgotten love letter by Swapnil Ogale