Aug 03 2007
[tags]facebook,gonzo,bloggers,meetup[/tags] I met Gonzo Will at the bloggers meetup last night and clicked through to his site via Mauricio’s post earlier. He’s got a great blog with some straight-up and witty writing. I especially enjoyed his post on the ups and downs of Facebook – well worth reading.
Aug 02 2007
[tags]crankworks,bike shop,bmtb,mountain bikes,websites[/tags] My favourite bike shop now has a website. Unfortunately, although it looks good, it has no products or pricing – just links to their suppliers. Hopefully they’ll sort this out soon, but it’s worth checking out though: www.crankworks.co.nz They’ve also got a good blog, which is also worth subscribing to, called: crankwords
Aug 02 2007
The guys at Eventfinder just added RSS feeds for favourite events and events I’m attending. So I’ve created a widget in the sidebar (look to the right*) that lists the events that I’m attending and each one links back to the Eventfinder site. *obviously if you’re reading this in a feed reader, you’ll need to […]
Aug 02 2007
Somebody searched Google for “double dog treadmill” and found my blog as the number one search result. The post that gets me into the search results was titled: “Height of Laziness” and was linking to a Gizmodo article. So hopefully whoever found my site might consider actually taking their dogs for a real walk – […]
Aug 02 2007
As Wanda Martha just mentioned, last night we had the first meetup of the Wellington Bloggers Facebook group (or the catchy ‘WBFG‘ for short) at the Southern Cross bar. It was great fun and quite surreal meeting bloggers in real life for the first time – especially as we already knew so too much about […]
Aug 02 2007
Auckland based site, Eventfinder, have been rolling out heaps of new features recently with a focus on the social networking aspects of finding and attending events. Each registered user gets a profile page and can add friends to their network to keep up to date with what events their friends are attending. This is a […]
Aug 02 2007
The Dilbert Blog: Career Advice No, this isn’t some funny Dilbert cartoon, this is Scott Adams giving some great advice on how to be successful. If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you […]
Aug 02 2007
This video by itself is quite funny, but even funnier is that you can get to it via a link from Microsoft: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7200131 Not sure how long this link will stay active for.