Welcome – this sliver of the internet has been up since 2004, through various iterations of code, broken and fixed links, hacks, photographs and stories. Its part of my evolution as person. The opinions here are exclusively my own and are subject to evolve.  If you want to know more about me – see the about page. This site includes all former personal blogs I have written including asylon.org, apocalypticpost.com, parahanga.com, kraxn.io, zegarkus.com, portwaikato.com, and vonnagy.blogspot.com.

Older versions of my sites  can be found on archive.org

Latest Posts from NZ Photos

• ChatGPT and creating a asynchronous Lua webpage with Lighttpd (12/25/2022) - I always was interested how to use Lua asynchronously – I found documentation at OpenResty a bit cumbersome. This was a conversation I had with ChatGPT, that eventually brought about an interesting, albeit untested result. Me: Using Lighttd, how can one write a simple “hello world” web page? ChatGPT: To write a simple “Hello World” […]
• ChatGPT – What is a simple way for creating asynchronous PHP? (12/24/2022) - The following is recent conversation I had with ChatGPT. I was pretty amazed at the response. Question: What is a simple way to make PHP asynchronous? For example, I’d like to call 3 eternal json files, in a non blocking fashion. How can this be done in an explicit and easy to understand way? Answer: […]
• UV ID Polaroid expire October 2009 – Shot March 2022 (3/14/2022) - I recently found the time to shoot some polaroids again. It was UV ID, expired in October 2009. They have been refrigerated, but unfortunately, that doesn’t always mean they will work. The medium tends to stick together, and it takes delicate and nimble fingers to resuscitate them. Out of a pack a of 10, only […]
• Trypt.am – Psychedelic Clinical Trials Database (2/28/2022) - At the beginning of the Covid pandemic in 2020, while in isolation, I decided to pick up programming again. I stopped programming as my daily job about 12 years ago. During isolation, I dabbled in a few new and old languages (Swift, Perl, Rust), but in the end I found that my old stomping grounds […]
• Polaroid shot of the day (11/4/2021) - It was a surprise to receive this email today: dear parahanga!!! please have a short look at the cover of polanoid.net [ http://www.polanoid.net/cover ] (http://www.polanoid.net/jump/?to=pictures&uid=13197&pid=385985) **CONGRATULATION** you have won the worldfamous ShotOfTheDay award! not only is your picture on the cover for the next 24 hours, generating endless fame and glory, but also you have […]
• Vancouver Island Wilderness property for sale by owners (5/24/2021) - In 2016, I embarked on an adventure with my Canadian friends and we purchased 186 acre wilderness property on Vancouver Island. But as our lives changed over the past few years, we decided to sell our section of Shangri-la. This wasn’t an easy decision by any stretch of the imagination, the property was catalyst for […]
• Gossamer Days: A proposal for renaming Indian summer (10/8/2020) - We have choices. Every time we use a word, it’s a choice. Societal inequality litters the English language but where we know about it, we can choose not to keep reiterating it. Helen Zaltzman, Allusionist 122. Ghostwriter As a six-year-old growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, I remember one particularly crisp and delightful Autumn […]
• How to Choose a Polaroid Camera (9/27/2020) - [Note – this was originally publish on Squidoo (now Hubpages) over 10 years ago. I’ve decided to move it as an effort to consolidate content content that I wrote. It was located here: https://hubpages.com/art/polaroid-camera-2 ] Its been sunny news lately for Polaroid – after going out business at the end of 2008, the Impossible Project has […]
• 17 years, 7 websites, 965 posts, to one domain. (9/24/2020) - Our internet lives can be incredibly spread out. This my story of my content and how and why I reeled it back to this domain. Ironically, I had moved away from WordPress over 10 years ago due to a vulnerability in WordPress plugin that hacked the commenting system. This plugin hack poisoned my website to […]
• Develop your own film (9/21/2020) - [Note: this was an unpublished article from Jan. 2015 I had on Hubpages, I’ve decided to go ahead and publish it here with a few minor corrections] Why not develop your own film? As an avid film photographer, I am quite happy to see rebirth of analogue photography such as Polaroids (see my related article […]