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The usually sensible David Farrar, is suggesting that lawyers and other high-earning couples should not be entitled to as much paid parental leave as those who earn less than them. Targeted support is one of those idealistic things that look good on paper but are usually far from fair when implemented. How do you target […]

Now that I have a 64 bit notebook, I get to do fun stuff like install the 64 bit version of Windows Server 2008 (beta 3). I wasn’t too sure how well the experiment would go, but so far it’s been pretty successful. Drivers weren’t such an issue as most of the Vista x64 drivers […]

I attended a briefing session at Microsoft this morning to learn about how the legislative changes to daylight savings time (DST) in NZ affects Microsoft’s products and other I.T. related technologies. Nathan Mercer from Microsoft also blogs about the DST changes and briefings that are coming up around the country. Here are my notes from […]

I’ve been using a lot of evaluation software at home recently to build up a virtual lab that I’ll use for testing and demos. I needed to know when my eval copies of Windows Server 2003 were due to expire but couldn’t figure it out without having to trawl through Google Groups first. Turns out […]

Just a few interesting links from this morning’s news reading… From Boing Boing: LA Times religious reporter loses faith My favorite news magazine, The Week, reprinted this fascinating personal account written the LA Times’ former religious correspondent. Nine years ago, William Lobdell was assigned to cover religion for the LA Times. He was a born-again […]

Just looking through my site stats and I noticed that someone had found my blog through a Google search for “Blue Oyster Bar moustache“ The page they found was my Movember page with photos from last years attempts. Simon had commented that it reminded him of the Blue Oyster Bar (from Police Academy!) Here’s the […]

I’ve been trying to figure out why image uploading doesn’t work for some Blogtown NZ customers, and I accidentally found the issue. I’ll run some test posts here and see how it goes… This image does not have a link: That worked, now lets post an image that links to a URL: That also worked, […]

I’ve been trying to figure out why image uploading doesn’t work for some Blogtown NZ customers, and I accidentally found the issue. I’ll run some test posts here and see how it goes… This image does not have a link: That worked, now lets post an image that links to a URL: That also worked, […]

Here’s a photo I took of my brother in Amsterdam waking Elliot up. I set up the notebook and webcam with Skype so that Andrew could see her and she could hear him. It was so funny listening to him call out, “Elliot….. Elliot… Elliot…”, trying to wake her up for the 10pm feed! [tags]elliot,andrew,skype,webcam,notebook,baby[/tags]

Schmap the online travel-guide website just got a little better… That’s because they’ve included two of my photos in their guide to the ‘Western Suburbs’ of Wellington. I’m not too sure that Hawkins Hill should be classified as being part of the Western Suburbs but it does border on the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary so perhaps […]