zkbro

Last update: 4/11/2024

About me

me hanging by a trig station

Zak's the name. I like the outdoors - running's my jam - trails and hills are my fav. I can keep a trot all day, more if I'm on a mish. I like to garden too, grow my own food, save a few bob. I do a bit of mountain biking, skiing and paragliding when time, money and nerves permit.

I grew up in Australia, but now reside in the Queenstown Lakes District in New Zealand. Traded the beaches for the mountains. I'm much more at home here. Recently became a NZ citizen and passport holder.

My career has predominantly been in geographic information systems (GIS) and surveying, but I've recently transitioned into business process improvement where we use the Six Sigma methodology to make improvements in the way our organisation does things.

I like computery things too. Data vis, web building, coding, systematic trading, PKM, linux, de-googling, FOSS, fediverse, permacomputing. I'm not great at any of them, but they're interesting and I enjoy learning them.

About the site

I'm fairly new to this web building thing. Though I have a couple of other digital homes, this one is a bit of a testing ground while I learn the ropes. At the moment I am using the zola static site generator and the neocities CLI utility to publish to Neocities. I am simultaneously learning about Linux and the command line on my old laptop, so most of this is built from there.

Quick-posts

2024-11-06 09:45

Ohhhh this is a sexy overly complicated workflow. I like where this is going. Notes for 2024-11-03 Exploring a new note taking workflow. I think I can…

2024-11-02 19:35

Took dad to the Cardrona Distillery where he has a shared whiskey barrel with a few of his rugby mates (majority of which are All Blacks from the 70's…

2024-10-31 07:40

Mike Grindle on finding flow: ..you have to spend a good while writing nonsense before the gears of creativity start spinning and get you to the “goo…

2024-10-29 05:40

Stoked I can watch movies like Dragged Across Concrete and Brawl in Cell Block 99 with dad while he's here. He gets just a kick out of them as I do.

2024-10-25 16:45

Finding yet more places where people are blogging. I'm going deeeeep. Here I'm using the gemplex search engine in the amfora client to search for "blo…

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Blog

Surveying Pooncarie 2014

2024-11-08 17:00

While I compress a bunch of old photos that don't need to be a stupid amount of kilobytes, I thought I'd share some interesting ones as I come across … More...

🔗 Link Stash | 5 Nov 2024

2024-11-05 20:57

Fresh dump of interesting and/or useful web links I've found. Full link stash here. 177. How to Create and Use Alias Command in Linux | GeeksforGee… More...

On Weeknotes

2024-11-05 17:05

Much like Phil, I dig reading others' weeknotes, because of the humanness about it. It's nice to read everyday goings ons, which more often than not r… More...

🗓️ Weeknote 2024-W44

2024-11-03 21:35

Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week. Family & Friends - visitors have all gone. It's been a busy month. It's been nice to share a very p… More...

On giftedness

2024-11-02 08:00

In her book The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine N. Aron offers some guidelines for "reparenting" your gifted self. I see a lot of bloggers who in my e… More...

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In the garden

In the Garden 2024-08-23

2024-08-23 21:26

Spring is around the corner here and I'm a little bit excited. Proud to say I've been eating carrots, beets and rocket from the garden all through winter. My staggered plantings before it got too cold seemed to work. I ran out of spuds, but I stil… More...

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Site-log

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