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Well the first day of TechEd 2006 is over. The keynote speech from TradeMe’s Rowan Simpson was the most interesting. The most painful was the dreadful MC,  Jaquie Brown – if you’ve ever been to a comedian that wasn’t funny, you’ll know the feeling. That horrible, painful feeling you get when the presenter on stage […]

I’m up in Auckland for the next few days to attend the number one geek-fest that is known as TechEd! I flew up early this morning to catch up with Damian and Shelley, and got to meet the new edition to their family – 2 month old, Lola. The next three days are going to be full-on, […]

A couple of interesting articles to read if you’re looking to lose weight and increase fitness: http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Six-Pack-Abs http://www.carbohydrate-guide.com/archives/2005/09/16/thermogenic-foods.html Also, read this article too: http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/. It’s not anything to do with diet or fitness, but I like it…

Interesting reading for any current or wannabe bloggers, the blogosphere is not quite what you expected! A blog-peasant, one of the Great Unread, comes to the wall of the castle to offer a tribute to a royal, and the royal drops a couple of coins of attention into the peasant’s little purse. The peasant is […]

I discovered the Traineo site which is the latest Web 2.0 offering aiming to fill a need in the online market place. I’m not sure whether I’ll file this with the other sites I sign up with but then lose interest in, but we’ll see. Anyway, the aim is to track your weight, diet and fitness […]

By the way, this post and the previous post were both written with the awesome new blogging tool released by the Windows Live team. It’s called (imaginatively) Windows Live Writer, and you can read more details and download it for free from here: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!… I haven’t been able to fault it yet – it seems […]

I’m back from my trip to London and Amsterdam. I had planned to blog more while on holiday but I actually enjoyed the break from the computers too much. The holiday was awesome and it was great to see my Mum, Gran and brother, as well as all the friends still living it large in London! […]