What do you so wish?

Stef and I made a website. Now we made it so you can cut and paste the wishing code into your blog to display a speech bubble like this. And when I say “we” made it… I mean Stef.

Carved from greenstone

I turned 40 back in September, and I had an amazing time doing it. I received one of the best presents of my life and a real fuss was made of me.

The best thing about this birthday is that it still seems to be going on 8 months later. Last night, my sister gave me the one remaining gift from her, my other sister and my parents - and it’s sort of a companion piece to my tattoo.

It’s a one-off, custom designed, hand-carved greenstone (NZ jade) pendant, called a pounamu. It’s based on a fish hook design (hei matua), which traditionally has to do with protection for travel over water.

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I’ve got a personal blog, and I tend to write things that are personally significant or important in it (at least, they seem that way to me). You’re reading it now.

I also use Twitter, and that’s a sort of micro-blogging thing: What am I doing right now, in 140 characters or less? I can reproduce that up on the top right of this blog, or you can get it straight to your phone. Clever stuff.

But there are a lot of things that kind of fit neither format. Like - a picture and a comment. A video I thought was interesting. Some links to things I’ve been reading.

I need a scrapbook. And then I remembered - I’ve had a Tumblr account for ages, and all I’ve been using it for was a dumping ground for links that were automatically being siphoned from my del.icio.us bookmarks. Redundancy, if you ask me.

So I’ve revisited the Tumblr account, and pointed a domain at it that I’ve had for a while but didn’t have a use for: dubber.co.nz.

It’s the third way. Nothing indepth or lengthy, nothing completely time-and-place specific. It’s a scrapbook of stuff, and I’m just going to start using it as such. If you find it interesting, feel free to add dubber.co.nz to the pile of things you read.

The thing I love most about watching Liam live (at least four times now, for me) is that you get a sense that it’s on the brink of completely falling apart at any moment. And yet it works.

Incidentally, he’s not the only one with a famous dad. That’s Jimmy’s daughter EJ Barnes on backing vocals.

Apart from anything else, Liam’s a great bloke and deserves to do amazingly well. As he seems to be.