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The Friday Show Episode 7

Tim Norton — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:56:57 +0000

From digging a 50 metre fern sculpture on Oriental Beach to the Job Summit, The Friday Show Episode 7… Sorry so late on this and behind on posts, so many good things happening in the community, stories from people & businesses I’ve been told about and haven’t covered on here, my apologies, as much as I love to do both in parallel, sometimes you just gotta stay quiet, work with the team and get down, get stuff done and get ahead! Have a great Friday and weekend, hope all is well : )

The Friday Show #7 – Part 1

The Friday Show #7 – Part 2

Photomake – Turn your simple drawings into reality

Tim Norton — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:00:54 +0000

If you’ve always thought Wellington founded Turn your dreams into reality maker Ponoko was cool, but not for you because you’re not a designer and don’t know how to use any fancy tools, then you’ll be happy to know that things have just changed in your favour and are now super simple.

Ponoko have in the last week released PhotoMake one of the coolest services around that lets anyone turn a simple pen drawing into a real object that in a just a few clicks is on its way to your door. Their awesome video Demo says it all! Very cool…

Some buzz from across the world

World Peace Summit March 29

Tim Norton — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:50:20 +0000

Wellington is hosting a world peace summit on climate change on March 29 focusing on climate change and what each of us can do as people to make a difference. As There are some cool people coming along and I look forward to it. As Gandhi said well “Be the change you want to see”.

Thanks Leslie from Grow Wellington for the tip!

Morning Swimming in Welly

Tim Norton — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:31:14 +0000

I love starting the day well, and this week me and a few friends have taken to morning swims down at our central city beach Oriental Bay. Nat and me lived up at Ohope Beach for a year or so building the business and working the lifestyle in parallel until last may, and getting up and running over the lawn to the ocean became a simple daily pleasure that really brings you life! And when you’re facing a day with heaps of time at the screen, there’s nothing better for you then looking as far into the distance as possible and getting some solid exercise.

Taken this lovely morning : )

Start the day with a swim!!!

If you’ve got a body of water near-by, and its not completely freezing, then get in and have a paddle, and if you’re living in Wellington like me, then come down to Oriental Bay at 7:30am (umm.. 7:40 actually) and come for a morning swim followed by a freshly squeezed juice down the road, guaranteed to feel even better about the world!

Round the Bays Wellington

Tim Norton — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:28:22 +0000

It’s one of those Monday morning where you know it’s going to be a really good week. The sun in shining, and it’s been that way all weekend here in Wellington, so spirits are up!

Round the Bays

Flew out of bed Sunday morning after peering over the edge of my bed which looks over Evans Bay, the next time I would see this I’d be up close, several k’s through a fun run, excellent! Zapped into town to get amongst the yearly Round the Bays fun run where about 12 thousand people took to the closed off streets to run around the beautiful waters edge that surrounds us.

View from My Bed

Mid Run

A friend Tim Copeland from SilverStripe tapped me on the shoulder early on so we ran together until the finish line, which was great because he pushed the speed up which helped pump me along. We started sufficiently far back in the pack to spend the whole race passing people, which helps make you fee a little speedy even if you’re not : ) Good to see quite a few people you know around after the run, few quiet high fives and a stretch, and we were onward bound, wicked start to the morning, totally pumped! Nat and her family get amongst this every year, and that kicked me into gear this year, her and Koz were in the Run from the PlanHQ crew, so we were pretty well represented.

More fun in the sun

We then walked back around the bays through the same route and stopped in at one of the only waterside places to graze Manhattan Lounge and sucked back a fruit salad and juice, could have eaten a small orchard by this time, but it appears not many pads cater for that. We need more waterfront eaty, drinky places.

Spent the rest of the day at Oriental Parade swimming, smacking around a beachball, eating watermelon, and doing the odd backflip off the pontoon just a small swim away. To finish the day Tim Copeland hosted a BBQ with muscles that he caught from the supermarket, and Danielle whipped up a delicious dessert from her cool practical cookbook – Mouthful. (Published last year and featured with Danielle on the Good Morning Show). Home for a quick spa and some zzz’s. Great Weekend.

The Fun Forecast

Looking ahead for the coming week, I’m happy to say that the Fun Forecast is looking good for everybody, and we all seem set to have a really good time. It’s going to be a good one for PlanHQ, I hope you all have fun with your businesses and lives too, why the hell not : )

Note: (Fun Forecast was termed yesterday at the beach by good friend Tom Stokell over at Social marketing organisation HSC Tom Runs the Bikewise Business Battle getting more people biking!