Author Archives: lynsey gedye

FND on FB

Posted on October 10, 2009 by lynsey gedye

After a great deal of pain I’ve managed to get the FaceBook Fresh New Day page up and running. Once I’d stopped trying the super sophisticated ‘create a new application in FaceBook, get a full developer kit going’ approach and … Continue reading →

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FND Launched!

Posted on September 15, 2009 by lynsey gedye

Yay! We went live with Fresh New Day this morning – not exactly countless hours, but uncounted hours of concentrated effort to get what is perhaps our most ambitious project off the ground. It doesn’t look like there’s much going … Continue reading →

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scary alien errors

Posted on September 13, 2009 by lynsey gedye

WordPress errors – scary aliens though they may be, are sometimes easily solved. Working on the Fresh New Day site (see tab above), I suddenly got the following error message snotted across the home page: WordPress database error: [Table ‘freshnew_wrdp1.wp_post2cat’ … Continue reading →

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fresh new day

Posted on September 12, 2009 by lynsey gedye

There’s been a flurry of working going on over at our new initiative, Fresh New Day. Marica and I have begun creating a document of our everyday world – using photography and writing to learn more, notice more, to explore … Continue reading →

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the good old days

Posted on August 14, 2009 by lynsey gedye

I recently caught up with a former student (Hi Floyd) and I was ranting about how cool the technologies are today – no more wrecking backs and knees lugging heavy video cameras and such around. I can get almost the … Continue reading →

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school sux, work sox

Posted on February 28, 2009 by lynsey gedye

The flight home last night from the Auckland was awash with aging suits who’d been at the employment summit. I talked to one of the suits – one of the 200 grey knights invited in to come up with ideas … Continue reading →

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what to tell your grandkids?

Posted on February 22, 2009 by lynsey gedye

I’ve been reflecting a lot recently on what to tell your grandkids. I don’t have any grandkids, but I was thinking about all those ‘What did you do in the war, Dad?’ kinds of questions that I didn’t ask my … Continue reading →

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Happy 200th birthday, Charles

Posted on February 12, 2009 by lynsey gedye

Charles Darwin turns 200 today. My hero. After all these years he’s as provocative as ever. Definitely who I would invite if I could invite six people from anywhere (or any when) in history to have dinner with. Not sure … Continue reading →

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Life, changing

Posted on January 21, 2009 by lynsey gedye

Christina’s World Art PrintWyeth, Andrew36 in. x 28.75 in.Buy at AllPosters.comFramed   Mounted The first writing of the new brings no comfort at all. I was saddened to read of the passing of Andrew Wyeth noted by James Gurney, and then in … Continue reading →

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The deal

Posted on December 4, 2008 by lynsey gedye

Tonight I cruised into the supermarket to grab some fixin’s for dinner. Hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. I noticed the trolley wrangler was wearing a green Santa’s helper hat. I remembered how my friend George had commented about … Continue reading →

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