last updated May 19th 2009


Hi, James Dignan here. Well, in the picture on the right, anyway. Recent news about me and this site can be found at the bottom of this page.
 

MY ART FAMILY AND GENEALOGY
photo by Alice Peattie
MY MUSIC DUNEDIN (and other places I have lived)
MY WRITING NEW ZEALAND
MY HOBBIES AND OTHER INTERESTS E-MAIL ME!
MY RESUMÉ

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So... Who am I?

Born in Barnet, England, I have lived in New Zealand since I was eleven. I gained an M.Sc. in psychology at the University of Otago, and now work in Dunedin as a freelance writer, artist, and musician, and as a reviewer and quiz compiler for the Otago Daily Times newspaper. I also host a fortnightly show on student radio station Radio One. More important that any of that, though, are my family and friends.

I have been involved in New Zealand science fiction fandom for many years. Online, I contribute to the Flags of the World website and forum, and am an administrator on Wikipedia. As to flags, I should explain the two images at the top of this page. Many vexillologists design their own personal flags. Call me greedy or indecisive, but I have two (if ever I have a boat, unlikely though that may be, the one on the right will become the ensign; the one on the left will be the flag on land).

Many of the articles on this site come from Aotearapa, an amateur press association (a real-time, hard-copy mailing list) of which I was a member from 1987 until 2007. I use the word Grutness for many of my projects - it is the name of a headland in Scotland's Shetland Islands, and the word just caught my fancy.

I haven't got a visitors' book or counter set up, but please e-mail me to tell me what you think of the site!
 
 

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Artwork, writing, music and lyrics on this site are for display purposes only and are © James Dignan (unless indicated
otherwise), and may not be reproduced or used in any way without written permission.



This page was lovingly hand carved using a rusty butter-knife and a large granite boulder. The granite was then crushed and sifted through a fine sieve. Every grain that passed through the sieve was coded as a "1", and every grain that did not was coded as a "0". These ones and zeroes made up the initial coding, which was converted from there into ASCII, and the resulting mess became the site you now see. This website is best viewed with a screen. The views expressed on this site are not necessarily those of the management - whoever that may be.

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