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I stumbled across this site recently via Tim Haines’s blog – fivepointsix.co.nz is a new photo sharing site based in New Zealand. I’m always interested in local offerings of services that are usually only available overseas – Zoomin is another good example of a great NZ site. I’m not too sure about the fivepointsix site […]

I recently realised that this blog had become a bit of a virtual dumping ground, filled with junk I had been collecting from around the internet. It's always tempting to stick a new blog button, or affiliates advertising logo, or some other 'cool' service that requires a bit of javascript on your site. So I've […]

This is a test post from Word 2007. The blog publishing tool has great potential, but the most important thing is that it publishes clean HTML. Lets’ see how it handles bullets: Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 An ordered list: First Second Third And some formatting like bold text (should be strong,) italics (should […]

I’ve been catching up on some local blogs recently and found a discussion on which cafes in Wellington are good for meetings – i.e. you need to be able to have a conversation without feeling like you’re shouting. I haven’t yet found the perfect cafe for this yet. We often go to Legato as it’s […]

To celebrate the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Google have released a memorial logo depicting the figure of Sherlock Holmes. From Wikipedia… Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who made his first published appearance in 1887. He was devised by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur […]

The NZ Herald is reporting today about Wellingtonian Claudia Batten who sold her startup company, Massive, to Microsoft in a US$400 million deal. The software allows publishers to download adverts into online games which is estimated to reach a $US700 million a year industry by 2010. Claudia isn’t revealing the exact figures but the sale […]

This is big news for those of us down here in New Zealand – Google Maps have just released a major update which includes street-level maps for all of New Zealand. Unfortunately the satellite imagery leaves a lot to be desired, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. Although Google Maps doesn’t […]

Dave Winer has just released a cool, new site called Share Your OPML. It’s such a simple idea it’s surprising that no-one else has thought of it. Basically, you upload your OPML file or point it to your web-based one and it aggregates your feeds with everyone else who’s registered with the site and displays […]

Not many people know about the free software virtualisation tool available from Altiris or what it’s capable. This review details how to use it and what can be done with it, with lots of screen shots. read more | digg story

I noticed this on Niall Kennedy’s blog: Apple’s new TV ads. I think they are really good, you should check them out. Apple – Get a Mac – Watch The TV Ads