Yeah, so, I was there, watching the E! Red Carpet coverage of the Oscars today when Sacha Baron Cohen tipped an 'urn' of 'Kim Jong Il's ashes' on 'Ryan Seacrest'. I was shocked. In fact, I was so...

"Nobody can stop you, nobody can beat you, you are above it all." God, we're good at making excuses, aren't we? It's what we do - avoiding things, letting ourselves slack off, gliding through life...

"I'd question what the hell they were thinking in the first place." When I moved back to New Zealand after three years abroad working in the internet technology sector, I didn’t quite know what to...

 "There are lots of pretty pictures of sparkly things." Pinterest’s meteoric rise to popularity has captivated internet marketers and social media pundits, but the service itself has captured the...

"You can see why I haven't bought into the hype." It’s been hailed as the best, affordable mascara on earth by beauty editors for years, the classic, iconic, Maybelline Great Lash mascara.  Never...

"This is going to blow your mind, and your ass off." I've never been overweight. Just hasn't happened. Except maybe the one time when I was about eight months old, sprained my ankle running, and...

"Someone's already stolen your idea. Motherf**kers." When you start out online, the first thing you realize is that you're really late into a really crowded market. All the good domains are gone...

"So I'm officially ancient: I turned 25 last month." No one ever asks me for ID anymore, except for when I get caught attempting to sexually assault 17 year-old boys. And 17 year-old boys look at...

"We want an adoring audience to share our genius with." When I check my social networks for updates and interactions, I start with Twitter, then YouTube, Instagram, DailyBooth and finally Facebook...

"If you just tweet about random crap, really, who cares?" I once had a follower reach out to me with a question about Twitter. This guy said he’d actually ressurected his account to give me another...

"Say you're the founder of something with a 'dot com' at the end of it, and you're golden." I’ve observed a lot of conversations over the past year, featuring heavy-hitters in the tech and online...

"Being a little weird is something you'd usually hide, but not here." Getting hired right now is tough. There’s a lot of competition in the job market, and many companies are freezing their hiring...

"I'm all business, and they want 'business time'." I’ve got a problem.  It’s nothing new, really; but it  has suddenly become a more serious issue since arriving in San Francisco.  I was warned...

"It was all just one big hot mess really." We're pretty rough with our skin. The slightest suggestion of a pimple, and we're in there with the heavy artillery; deep pore cleansers, exfoliators, masks...

"Where does a girl with guns fit in to the mix?" I decided a long time ago that ‘skinny’ wasn’t something I wanted to achieve. I’ve been there, done that. A lanky kid, I was all skin and bones up...

"With the right lighting, the results were undeniable."  

"It's bloody hard talking like a radio person when you're just a normal person off the street." I started working for a radio station when I was 18. It was the greatest day of my life (up until that...

"We're up against these child-star cyborgs." I feel like the middle child. Somewhat overlooked between the older generation, all confused or embarrassingly accepting of the Internet, and the young...

"Work out in your home, because you're too poor for a personal trainer."   Originally published on nzgirl.co.nz