Nick Young

I wrote a post recently about using the google ajax search api in wordpress. Turned out it is a simple matter of putting the javascript in the header of the template, adding the onload function to the body tag and popping the div into a page or a post or even into the template.
I’ve set [...]

So say Time magazine. You are the person who had the most influence on the news and our lives in 2006. With youTube, myspace, facebook, wikipedia and the likes you / we have influenced the world like never before.
In 2006, the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions [...]

Google have their zeitgeist page but i the del.icio.us tag cloud gives another very useful insight into what people think is important.

I haven’t seen these in NZ before - but I want one! A fully plug in electric moped - and in retro too.
Less than 1 cent per km at 18 cent per kw/hr. Just switch over to clean energy with the clean energy guide and you’re laughing.

I don’t have an apple but I would love to have one …. especially if it came in green. This is the essential message in the Greenpeace GreenMyApple campaign.
We love Apple. Apple knows more about “clean” design than anybody, right? So why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contain hazardous [...]

“Black Smoke?” is a photo competition and exhibition being run this summer to raise awareness of and encourage thought about the impacts of coal use (be it mining or burning) in New Zealand.
The competition is open to all members of the public who may enter up to 2 photos (digital or film) or film [...]

It has one simple aim - getting people to ask difficult questions about climate change …
preeeeety funny google video

Tonight I’m experimenting with a new beta gadget from Google labs - ajax search. With an API you can embed a Google Search in your web pages and other web applications. But not just any old Google search box - no sir.
The Google AJAX Search API provides simple web objects that perform inline searches over [...]

I want me some tags and I want me a tag cloud. And i want it now so I’ve grabbed the ultimate tag warrior plugin (which looks to be a homegrown kiwi wordpress plugin!). had to make a few adjustments to make it play nicelywith the mod_rewrite in the .htaccess but looks to be working [...]

This is funny. Greenpeace recently put out a nice stop motion photography video that Pubilcis Mojo NZ put together. It’s up on youtube and various Greenpeace websites and it’s worth a look. It’s pretty cool. But perhaps even better is this this spoof version…