fLaMEd fury What's going on Internet? 2026-10-20T22:47:52Z https://flamedfury.com/ fLaMEd hello@flamedfury.com Hilary Duff at the Spark Arena 2026-10-20T22:47:52Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/hilary-duff-at-the-spark-arena/ Tuesday night Hilary Duff gig with a room full of millennials. What’s going on, Internet? Just got back from seeing Hilary Duff at the Spark Arena (on a Tuesday night, whooo).

Great show. I wish I knew her music more as I would have loved to be belting out the lyrics with the rest of the crowd.

Definite millenial energy in the crowd. Loved it.

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]]> Olivia Dean at Western Springs 2026-10-18T07:07:30Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/olivia-dean-at-western-springs/ Freezing my arse off at Western Springs for Olivia Dean. What’s going on, Internet? Saturday was a pretty good day. Sun was shining, but damn it was freezing cold (literal shivering) when out of the sun. So after we had dinner down at Ralph’s on our way to Western Springs to see Olivia Dean we decided to make a quick detour home to grab our jackets.

Lucky we did, because damn, it was cold. Western Springs is an outdoor stadium. We were amongst 45,000 people who turned up to see Olivia Dean. She kicked off on time at 9pm, but three songs in disaster struck. Equipment failure. She was visibly fustrated, but wanted to reassure the crowd… Forty minutes later she was back in action and completed her set.

It was cold, it was getting late and that forty minutes wrecked me so we dipped a bit early before she wrapped up.

Home and in bed before 11:30. Gotta pick up some of her vinyl now.

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]]> Open Tabs September 2026 2026-10-08T17:37:45Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/open-tabs-september-2026/ Dumping my open tabs from September What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t follow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from September. Enjoy.

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]]> What a time to be alive 2026-09-18T19:43:11Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/what-a-time-to-be-alive/ Just a perfect Friday night What’s going on, Internet? Today just seems like one of those days. It’s Friday evening and I’m standing here at my desk with a beer, messing with the blog. Placeholding some later posts that I meant to write but time got away on me. Listening to new music, playing new computer games, and watching new favourite old TV shows.

Kids are in bed, and asleep.

New golf clubs arrived. I got to have a swing at the range.

New Miley Cyrus album. I was onto something, wasn’t I? Check out Bass Persuades, and the second single Let’s Get Married.

Blizzcon was last weekend. New Warcraft III expansion, Forsaken Kingdom. Which sets the story for the new World Of Warcraft game; Forever.

New South Park, with a new intro song. Let’s hope it’s less whatshisface this year.

And don’t mind those blank posts you’ve seen pop up in the feed, I’m staging them as a encouragement for me to finish writing them.

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]]> London Hardhouse Reunion 2026 2026-09-18T19:08:30Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/london-hardhouse-reunion-2026/ More doof doof for our now annual rave What’s going on, Internet? Later post. Write me.

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]]> Open Tabs August 2026 2026-09-18T19:01:52Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/open-tabs-august-2026/ Dumping my open tabs from August What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t folllow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from August. Enjoy.

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]]> Beervana 2026 2026-09-18T18:59:28Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/beervana-2026/ Back to Wellington to hit up Beervana for 2026 What’s going on, Internet? Later post. Write me.

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]]> Skiing in Tūroa 2026-09-07T08:32:09Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/skiing-in-turoa/ Quick trip down to the mountain to hit the slopes What’s going on, Internet? This is a later post. It’s been a minute since I’ve been skiing. We left the kids at home with their aunty and headed south to Ohakune.

Was made aware before the trip that Ohakune’s main water pipe was recently damaged during an earthquake. Repairs were being made but this weekend the township was without water. Restaurants had to close, hotels and motels had to close and cancel reservations.

We wanted to stay at the Powderhorn this trip for two nights, but the Monday night was fully booked so we couldn’t. Ended up working in our favour as they had to cancell all bookings.

We ended up in a rental house that was owned and managed by a local couple. No running water, but we were able to flush the toilets with water from the spa pool and was hands etc with bottled water supplied by the council.

Snow-covered Mt Ruapehu under a streaky blue sky, seen over trees and the roof of a house in Ohakune.
The view of the mountain from the rental house.

Not much was open in town for food but a few of the takeaways were open so we were able to get a decent feed.

Weather wasn’t looking too flash for Monday up the mountain but it held out in the end. Sure visibility was rubbish off and on during the day, it snowed around lunch time, a great time to take a break, but the snow was pretty good up there.

Like I mentioned, it had been a while (three years) since my last time up the mountain, I went up the top of the Movenpick chair lift and had a rough time getting down. The visibility was horrible up there for the first run.

A near whiteout on the snow, with only a tow rope line and a red safety net visible through the fog.
Visibility for the first run.

I made it down to the top of the Park Lane chairlift and spent the morning at the Wintergarden tow rope and it’s gentle slop getting familiar with the skiis again.

Looking up at the chairlifts from the Wintergarden under heavy grey cloud, with the tow rope running up the right and skiers in the foreground.
The view from the Wintergarden, tow rope on the right.

After lunch I head back up to the top of Park Lane and spent the next couple hours heading down the Park Lane chairlift.

Once I was confident with that run I headed back up to the top of the Movenpick. The first part of the slope was a bit of a challenge but I struggled through and made it back to the top of Parklane to finish the run.

The base of the mountain with skiers gathered around the lift station, a snow cannon beside it, and the Movenpick and Parklane chairlifts climbing the rocky slope behind.
The base of the mountain, with the Movenpick and Parklane chairlifts heading up.

One day up the mountain is not enough. Next trip I want to spend at least three days on the slopes, a couple hours of private lessons would do me well.

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]]> HTML Day 2026 2026-08-12T20:18:41Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/html-day-2026/ Hand-writing a zine about growing your website for HTML Day What’s going on, Internet? Last Saturday was HTML Day, a yearly celebration of hand-writing HTML started by Elliott Cost and Laurel Schwulst. Meetups happen in cities all over the world, and Zachary Kai ran an online session for those of us nowhere near one. Ten minutes of introductions, forty minutes of writing HTML, ten minutes sharing what we made. Zachary has a recap of the session up on his site.

I went in with a plan. At the recent Homebrew Website Club I talked about a question we hear all the time at the 32-Bit Cafe: “What should I put on my website? I don’t know what to put on my website.” These web surfers have the HTML and CSS basics down. Their homepages are full of badges, blinkies and custom cursors. What they don’t have is content. After thirty seconds of surfing I know nothing about the person behind the site.

So for HTML Day I started hand-writing a little zine about it: Grow Your Website. Forty minutes was enough to plant the first pages. I’ll finish the rest over the weekend and share the link once it’s online.

The method is one page and a way to grow it. You start with a seed: a title, a paragraph about who you are, and a bullet list of your interests. The intro grows into an about page. A bullet grows into its own page. The new page grows its own list, and every item on it is another seed. Repeat forever, because a website is never finished.

The zine needed someone to grow a site, so I invented PyRo, a webmaster from Aotearoa who works at a garden centre, has a cat called Savage, and listens to a lot of NZ hip-hop. PyRo’s site is the example the zine follows. When it’s finished you can click through the zine and watch it grow from one page to five. (PyRo was one of my earliest handles.)

PyRo has good taste too. The NZ hip-hop page covers the Years Gone By crew, the Zips (+++!) collective, and a few others. That list deserves a proper post of its own. More on that soon.

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]]> My first HWC 2026-08-06T14:52:08Z https://flamedfury.com/posts/my-first-hwc/ Quick recap of the first Asia Pacific Homebrew Website Club What’s going on, Internet? Last night I joined the first Asia Pacific Homebrew Website Club, which was also my first HWC. These meetups have been running for years, just never at an hour that worked for me. Naty has started one in this timezone. Even though it was past my usual bed time, I made myself available.

Eleven of us on Zoom. Some familiar faces, James, Chris Burnell, and Zachary Kai, plus a bunch of people I hadn’t met before.

The group was a diverse bunch of webmasters, some of us having websites for decades, others for months, and others who haven’t started yet.

Discussion covered how you make your personal site feel like you rather than just look like you, why it’s easier to write for fun, and our usage of static site generators. I got to talk through how I’d approach building a website from the start. We had a group photo midway, before setting some goals for what we might want to achieve or share before the next meetup.

There was also an interesting occurrence, a person claiming to be an AI joined the call at the start, camera and microphone off. A singular note to the Etherpad (“I write. I am an AI.”) before they ended up overwriting the whole pad. They were quickly removed and blocked from joining again. This was also a first experience for me. Outside of note takers on work calls, I’ve never had an AI join a call before, lol.

The notes from the night are up on the IndieWeb wiki if you want the full rundown. Keep an eye on events.indieweb.org for the next one. I’ll be there.

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