zkbro

Last update: 06/10/2024

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

2024-10-05 14:13

Finished the Flexbox module. The project was to create a website landing page using flexboxes. It's not fit for mobile devices (that wasn't the goal),…

2024-10-03 18:03

Funky Cthulhu carrot day. 📸

2024-10-03 13:35

I think I'm getting comfortable with Linux. I'm now preferring to open up Ubuntu instead of Windows on my dual-boot laptop, and I'm having more succes…

2024-10-01 19:30

I signed up for a local Yahtzee running challenge for the month of September in a spur of the moment burst of enthusiasm, and now it's at a close. Res…

2024-09-30 08:27

Don't get this out my front door every day. 📸

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Blog

Weeknote 2024-W40

2024-10-06 19:00

Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week. Bit of a short one today. About to pick up old man from the airport. I have a lot of family and friends… More...

Weeknote 2024-W39

2024-09-30 10:30

Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week. 🏃 Ran 69.4km / 5,024m profile A lot of vert this week. Weather has been great. Warmer, less rain. Snow … More...

Link Dump

2024-09-27 03:00

I've fallen off the wagon with capturing my links and bookmarks into a single repository, so I'm just going to dump them all here, and in time I'll fi… More...

Early Spring Brow ridge scramble

2024-09-25 19:55

Distance: 22.16km Elevation: 1,482m Elapsed time: 4:28:37 Slow trot up at my favourite local to break in "Spring". I couldn't see the north face fr… More...

Weeknote 2024-W38

2024-09-22 19:39

Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week. 🏃 Ran 74.65km / 4,195m profile Comfortable 4,000m+ this week. I'm off work and doing what I love, so th… 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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