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Testing the capabilities of Windows Live Writer to Blogtown NZ. I should be able to upload the following image just fine (with the drop shadow too.) No special configuration required.

I need an extra four or five hours in each day at the moment. I’m adding these videos to my to-do list. System Center Essentials 2007 Training Videos Presenter Biographies Scott Bleasdell Scott Bleasdell is a program manager on the System Center Essentials team responsible for product planning, focusing on future releases. Scott has been […]

Lost in the hoopla of the announcement that Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 has been released, was that their ‘Express’ counterparts have also been updated to Beta 2 and are now available to download from here: Visual Studio 2008 Express Downloads This is great news for us part-time coneheads and there’s a whole bunch […]

I try to stay away from politics as rule-of-thumb, but I find this interesting: LATEST: Environment Minister David Benson-Pope has resigned from Cabinet after being found to have misled the public. This wasn’t the first time that this minister was caught being ‘economical with the truth’ and looks like he got what was coming to […]

I’ve been creating a bunch of WordPress plugins recently. They are really easy to make and the documentation is great. I don’t really know much about PHP but it has the same structure as the way I write VBscript, i.e. write a bunch of functions, then call them with parameters. Most of the plugins I’ve […]

[tags]telstra clear,geekzone,broadband,internet[/tags] From the Geekzone forums, I found out about TelstraClear’s speed increases on their cable network – FOR FREE! (Official press release here: More broadband speed for free) More broadband speed for free TelstraClear has doubled the speed of two of its most popular InHome broadband plans.  The free speed increase raises downstream speeds […]

I know that it’s not supposed to be good for the economy, but it’s definitely good for those of us that like shopping online at American sites like Amazon. The Kiwi dollar hit the US80c mark after hovering just beneath that for the last few weeks. So to celebrate, I bought a bunch of books from Amazon, and ordered […]

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 […]

I signed up for Pownce today to see what it’s all about. Signup was nice and easy and updated my profile (http://pownce.com/amanzi/) with the same photo from Facebook. But now what…? I went to add some friends and my only option is to add someone who’s already on Pownce. The thing is, I don’t know who’s […]

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