Hi, my name is John. I’m a 20-something year old married to a girl who’s way way way out of my league. We live and work in Wellington, New Zealand.
I work at a start-up called Ponoko where I spend my days talking to our users in my role as Community Manager. We launched Ponoko at TechCrunch in San Francisco in September 2007.
Before moving to Ponoko I worked for a software development company called Intergen, on their creative team. Previous to that I ran my own company (now sold) called iVISION and was involved in two others, one that is still going and one that isn’t. Even earlier you would’ve found me as an undergraduate at the University of Otago School of Business studying marketing and IT.
There are a number of things and areas I am passionate about and this blog is my vehicle to format and share these thoughts and ideas. I write about all things Wellington, IT, business, marketing and innovation, design and advertising, personal productivity and Apple Computer. Oh, and it wouldn’t be complete without a little bit of travel logging.
This blog uses Movable Type, and is hosted on a Powermac G4 sitting in my apartment next to the TV. Unfortunately this is hosted on a 128k/bit uplink due to the shoddy sad state of NZ broadband This blog uses WordPress and is hosted somewhere in Hong Kong.
Want to contact or hire me? Or would you like to know why I named this blog ‘Umami’?
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