Hi! My name is Josh and this is my personal blog, my web log.

The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.

I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.

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  • When I told her she was 10 months old today

  • Britt as we drive home from a date night out in Queenstown: when we get home can you remind me to Google if Cameron Díaz and Benni Madden are still together?

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  • ‪Who amongst us hasn’t had a few Presidential tweets and gone on a late-night Greenland run?‬

  • DragonDictate has admitted it has listened to audio messages, claiming it was an effort to improve its voice recognition systems.

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  • Dolphins seem to use Pufferfish to get high, via the Smithsonian

  • Last light in Arrowtown, New Zealand, tonight

  • Last light #arrowtown

  • Adobe really missed an opportunity here for there to be Lightroom Girls. via NBC

  • What if Area 51 was every Victoria’s Secret store? That’s some Men In Black level secret hiding going on there.

  • I started thinking about Britt and my wedding, seven years ago next month, and what we would have done differently. It’s something I’m asked by most couples.

    Honestly I’m picking at straws to think of things I would change. We had a ball!

    I often tell people that if I could go back I’d probably change our decision to have a bridal party. Ours was full of fine people, but it’s probably the only slack I’d cut off. We’d still get ready together with the same people, and I’d still get Scotty to pray for us and Ash to make a speech, but I just wouldn’t force them to stand up with us in matching clothes.

    Oh, I would also get Michael Eotvos to come and play live music through the ceremony instead of getting our mate Andy to DJ the ceremony.

    What would you change about your wedding?

  • Talking about retail figures, this guy’s a genius, and might just be the saving grace retail needs, not sympathetic news articles about it’s decline — Barnes and Noble's New CEO Just Revealed a Brilliant Plan to Save the Company

  • Every day there’s news reports about retail figures being low. Is that how we measure our success as a society? By how much money is spent at David Jones and Myer?

    You are what you measure.

    I’d suggest we measure something other than sales at cash registers.

    It’s like measuring the number of phone calls made to see how healthy we are as a society.

  • “Imagine this: A shooter has entered a public place, where you are walking with your family. You have but a minute to realize you can save your 2-month-old by using your own body to shield him from the bullets raining down around you. Mere days later, your baby, the youngest survivor of the El Paso massacre, will appear on television with the very man who inspired the terrorist who killed both you and your husband. A photograph is taken, for posterity.” // Trump’s Horrific Photo with El Paso Victim Paul Anchondo

  • If you ever lose some something and have to report it to Queensland Police, know that they have a category for everything.

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  • Seven's Sunrise breakfast TV show is on in the hotel lobby so I'm watching it for the first time in years.

    It's essentially Kochie and friends giving rolling commentary of the daily social media feed.

    It's a live call of the internet.

  • Sand bunkers gone wild (abandoned golf course)

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  • Low tide

  • The abandoned Laguna Quays Resort

  • Airline Beach, according to autocorrect // this weekend’s office in the Whitsundays, Qld, Australia

  • Airline Beach, according to autocorrect

  • “Don't worry Wilson, I'll do all the paddling. You just hang on.” // Airlie Beach, Qld, Australia

  • The Gold Coast is a pretty special place to call home

  • “It’s pleasantly ironic that some of the internet’s oldest open protocols are shining through, with email newsletters and podcasting standing tall” Podcasting is media’s slow food movement

  • Love this timothychambers.net

  • If there's something strange in you neighbourhood who you gonna call? Alien Patrol!

  • We got to the chopper

  • Luna // Bunnings

  • Was I feeling scared, scarred, or sacred. I’m still unsure.

  • A lot of you have been asking where I get my under-arm deodorant from, and this is totally not sponsored, but it’s the grocery store.

  • Yesterday’s office // Skipper’s Canyon, NZ

  • Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes over a morning coffee has seen some of the “sleep” fall into the coffee. Do you drink the coffee?

  • From Coronet Peak to the Crown Range

  • The Remarkables truly are remarkable

  • I think I’d like to stay here a while

  • I have the best job in the world