Dawn Rising

For a very long time I was a massive advocate of social media , how it can connect people, allow anyone to publish to the Web, and share those moments that matter with the people they care about. They were simpler times. There are three facets of social media that I have I grown more and more wary of as they have each grown in power and influence. btw: if you wanna know what social media I use the answer is none. Ish. I don't have anything to do with Facebook and its many apps, I have locked down my Twitter account just to follow a handful of 'silly' accounts that if I can find RSS feeds I will. I'm on LinkedIn but don't have the app and tbh I forget it's around. The one "social media" site I use a lot is YouTube, but it's like TV for me and I Chromecast so never see or interact with comments and the like. So, why the disenchantment and moving on? 1: Social Media is all about money Twitter, Facebook, and all those that claim to 'connect people&

Despite what everyone tried to tell me, "Boyle", was never that cool ... oh, you already knew did ya :-) And Liz's surname wasn't that much better either (Eggleston) so we chose this name after a beach town, Riversdale , on the eastern Wairarapa coast of the NZ North Island [ ZoomIn map | Google Map ]. And why there? Liz and I have an affinity with Riversdale after being introduced to the place by a close friend, Emma . We often stay at her brothers' bach ( Kiwi for 'beach holiday home') and it was on our first visit that Liz, under the sparkling stars and within earshot of the ocean, proposed to me. Once we had decided to come up with a brand new family name it seemed appropriate to refer back to where it all began. And it sounds quite cool. And it's unique in the NZ phone book [Update 10-Jun-2014] There's a little more to just changing the name. After deciding that "Boyle" and "Eggleston" weren't going to

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