For Heritage Magazine, a look at my home town just after the devastating 2011 earthquakes. 

Three weeks after the February 22nd quake and Lyttelton – the town at the epicentre - is still awash with rubble. Red volcanic stone walls, built over a century ago by hard labour gangs, have crumbled onto the streets and footpaths. The commercial zone of Norwich Quay is virtually uninhabited. One of the most-captured images of the town is a Norwich Quay café – it’s façade completely collapsed, a Subaru Legacy completely flattened under the bricks and the first floor sitting rooms laid bare and exposed like a doll’s house. Down Norwich Quay and up around the corner onto Oxford Street are red stickers – too many to count. Steel fences barely contain the rubble.

Just dug this one out of the archive - a story about female kick-boxing fights in Christchurch for Staple Magazine. Good old Staple. It was good mag.

In your dreams, do you imagine yourself as part of a tightly-synchronised, Lycra-clad, 80s-inspired dance troupe? Do you still sing into your hairbrush? Or have fond memories of making up dance routines as a child and performing them to an appreciative audience of your mum and dad?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, chances are you are a Real Hot Bitch in waiting.

Fifty-seven percent of New Zealanders say they are worried about invasion of privacy through new technology. In the US – probably for good reason - the figure is 70% and in Australia, 64%.

Privacy advocates would say that this figure is too low – everyone with an email account and a credit card should be worried. But assistant privacy commissioner Katrine Evans says it’s not the technology we should be concerned about.

“Technology itself is neutral,” she says, “It’s what we do with it.”