I’m Miraz Jordan, a writer for hire. I live in Wellington, New Zealand. My focus is on writing and editing for plain language, on websites and in print. I also create training materials.

My schedule is not fixed and I can often work at short notice.

Oddity 59 is my personal blog about life in Wellington, New Zealand, photos, movies, sci-fi, astronomy, space, curiosities and anything else which takes my interest. I don’t update it as often as my other blogs.

In 2006 I wrote the WordPress 2 : Visual QuickStart Guide book, in conjunction with Maria Langer. I also wrote the New Zealand Webguide (Parts 1 and 2) for community groups, and was lead contributor to the Groupings blog for a couple of years.

I’m a writer with a solid repertoire, including hundreds of Tips for Mac users, and more than 100 tutorials, reviews and other articles, including Newbies Guides and the PowerUp series for New Zealand’s Macguide Magazine magazine. I also write two Tips each month for CommunityNet Aotearoa Panui.

I have written more than 2500 blog posts at KnowIT over the last decade or so.

I was one of the organisers of the very successful Webstock conference in 2006 and 2008.

In 2003 I was selected as an Exceptional Adult Educator of the Year as part of a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) initiative. That initiative was Adult Learner’s Week, designed to celebrate the efforts, achievements and contributions of adult learners, educators and providers, and to promote the importance of adult learning to the wider community.

I believe that we can all use technology such as computers and the Internet to bring change into the world, improving ourselves, others and this planet, our only home in the universe.

I enjoy watching and reading sci-fi, reading and listening to material about science and technology, and am reawakening an old love of astronomy. I love my Mac computers, my partner, our three cats and two dogs and living in New Zealand. Not necessarily in that order.

My iName is =miraz.