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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’m actually rather impressed that TVNZ have started using YouTube to distribute some of their TVNZ ondemand videos. They have a customised URL to provide their start page: http://www.youtube.com/tvnz

[tags]amazon,s3,aws,storage,simple,startup[/tags] Artur Bergman, over at O’Reilly Radar, has started an interesting discussion about Amazon’s S3 service and how start-ups/companies are relying on the service without having any guarantees to its availability or uptime. So, if your company is based on AWS: What does your disaster recovery plan look like? How do you react if Amazon […]

 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 […]

Microsoft’s new integrated infrastructure management product, System Center Essentials 2007, has recently been released in NZ. It’s a management solution for small and medium sized businesses that provides similar functionality to Microsoft’s enterprise products like SMS and MOM, with additional features relevant to the smaller businesses. This should turn out to be popular in NZ […]

I love reading Seth’s blog so I was surprised to see his post about Britain’s Got Talent winner, Paul Potts. I don’t think Seth understood the format of the show and I don’t even think he watched the whole video. First, that Cord, the blogger who posted the video, felt like the singer had no […]

Old news I know, but I’m still catching up for the last few weeks. I’ve been looking forward to this since the initial announcement and although I think that the cost of individual songs are still prohibitive ($2.39), a full, DRM-free album for $17.99 doesn’t seem to be too bad. I’ve made a few purchases so far […]

In my opinion, the only good thing to come out of the whole “Windows Live” fad is Windows Live Writer – and this rocks! If you haven’t tried this desktop blogging tool yet, then you’re really missing out. The latest version was released a couple of weeks ago and it is a dramatic improvement over […]

Regular readers of this blog would have noticed the lack of posting over the last couple of weeks, in fact it took Paul Potts’s amazing opera singing to get me to fire up Live Writer again. The blogging break was, of course, brought on by the birth of our first daughter, Elliot Ruby Maxwell. We’ve […]

I found these videos via Miramar Mike. Paul Potts was an entrant on the British talent show called Britain’s Got Talent. He’s a shy, humble mobile phone salesman who nervously gets on stage and then blows everyone’s socks off with an amazing opera performance. If this doesn’t give you goose bumps, then nothing will. Here […]