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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has certainly been generating lots of news over the last few days. I’ve got a couple of posts lined with my opinions on some of the more interesting items, starting with the news that Sony have released news that they will be joining the rest of the […]

I subscribe to lots of blogs written by Microsoft bloggers, and my favourites are from those who aren’t afraid to poke a little fun at themselves and their employer. Here’s a post from The Sean Blog making fun of the fact that when you right click a removable drive in Windows Vista, the kind “Safely […]

While the NZ dollar has been so strong over the last few weeks, it was a great opportunity to do some shopping online on Amazon. Here are the books I’ve bought recently: Geek books: Active Directory, 3rd Edition by by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair Lowe-NorrisThis is the Active Directory bible as far as I’m […]

As Wanda Martha just mentioned, last night we had the first meetup of the Wellington Bloggers Facebook group (or the catchy ‘WBFG‘ for short) at the Southern Cross bar. It was great fun and quite surreal meeting bloggers in real life for the first time – especially as we already knew so too much about […]

As far as I’m aware, Microsoft have been keeping very quiet about Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Paul Thurrott even theorised that Microsoft may never release a SP3 for XP. So it was interesting to read two posts on the TechNet Blogs site, mentioning the “forthcoming XP Service Pack 3.” This is the first […]

[tags]mediatemple,blogs,downtime[/tags] Like Richard MacManus’s “Read/Write Web” blog, my site was down tonight for a couple of hours. Quite frustrating as I was inspired to write some better blog posts after creating my first Facebook group – “Wellington Bloggers”. Here’s the MediaTemple response.  Richard’s disappointing write-up: Grid Server Crushes Shared Hosting? Not Tonight It Didn’t…

I saw this on MiramarMike’s blog and the on Jim Donovan’s En Avant blog. Take the test at Mingle2 to see how geeky you are! 69% Geek

Cartoonist, Hugh McLeod of gapingvoid nicely sums up the history of most blogs (including mine) in the following cartoon: Now that the whole ‘Web 2.0’ fad is dying down a bit now, I find sites like TechCrunch much less interesting. I’m bored of hearing about all the new startups/mashups/acquisitions/Google-killers/YouTube-killers/<insert well known site name here>-killers.

A cool story about how blogging and Google brought a present to our daughter, Elliot… Over the last few days, we have received lots of presents from friends and family for the arrival of Elliot, who sends her thanks by the way. But one present from Karen and Jason had the wrong address on it, […]

 I was wondering why the inline tags I was posting to WordPress with Windows Live Writer weren’t being translated into proper tags by the Simple Tagging plugin (as described here.) Turns out I was running an ancient version of Simple Tagging which didn’t have that feature. Simple Tagging is now on version 1.67 and introduces heaps […]