Hey there! nzben is using Twitter.

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join today to start receiving nzben's tweets.

Already using Twitter
from your phone? Click here.

nzben

@ColinJacksonNZ there's no way a normal city mayor like @jackyan can handle the power of a super mayor. SMK will be ours comrades!about 2 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to ColinJacksonNZ
I'm going to stand for Super City Mayor. My platform is: use city funds to buy Sweet Mothers Kitchen and relocate it to Kingsland.about 3 hours ago from Tweetie
The news is just nuts some days. Necrophilia, prison shivving, and MP travel perks all on the same page. One is causing public outrage.about 5 hours ago from web
@themorgan yeah it'd be nice to have more explanation, but I guess PR 101 is to just let it die.about 5 hours ago from web in reply to themorgan
@themorgan nah I've read the Listener article that has excerpts. Slightly modded quotes, inline, in-voice. Dude.about 5 hours ago from web in reply to themorgan
@themorgan I'm pretty sure you can be dismissed for bringing your employer into disrepute even outside of work. Also apropos.about 5 hours ago from web in reply to themorgan
@themorgan Penguin published it. Witi is a professor teaching creative writing at Auckland Uni. It's rather apropros surely?about 5 hours ago from web in reply to themorgan
@themorgan if I blogged about software architecture by stealing someone else's ideas, I'd expect Datacom to get pinged. So I don't.about 5 hours ago from web in reply to themorgan
@themorgan dude, you need to listen back to the 5:10 interview on Radio Live. Auck Uni took 48 hours to "investigate" and find no wrongdoingabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to themorgan
Big sis @nzdodo will be on Radio Live just after 5pm talking more #ihimaera. Auckland Uni and Penguin shouldn't get off lightly on this one.about 6 hours ago from web
@benlilley like the Pre, the Droid is EVDO, so only useful on Telecom's old network. Wait for a GSM/UTMS one.about 10 hours ago from web in reply to benlilley
@phixx you coming too? @gredge and I are wearing parachute pants. You don't want to be left out do you?about 11 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to phixx
@rgoodchild what are dads? Chopped liver? And where to send them?about 12 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to rgoodchild
@Nightwyrm ta. I hope I didn't edit it too brutally :)about 13 hours ago from web in reply to Nightwyrm
RT @Nightwyrm ... with socialised #healthcare, I've never seen piles of dead Jews. These "moral" neocons are more like Nazis than they thinkabout 13 hours ago from web
So Fonterra has never heard of hedging?about 15 hours ago from Tweetie
@billbennettnz did you get dugg or something?about 15 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to billbennettnz
This week kicks off with Alex vomitting horribly. So I'm on kid duty. And what a week it's going to be: http://j.mp/3jHSSGabout 15 hours ago from Tweetie
So the "public option" is private insurance. Someone is going to make a ton of money as a middleman. I thought capitalism was efficient?9:16 PM Nov 7th from Tweetie
@themorgan amazingly, the "public option" will make the insurance lobby even bigger. Perhaps "too big to fail" (aka public risk, private $$)9:13 PM Nov 7th from Tweetie in reply to themorgan

Name Ben Gracewood
Location Auckland, New Zealand
Web http://www.ben.ge...
Bio Software architect with Datacom, TVNZ gadget reviewer. I am a sponge. I absorb technical information voraciously.