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According to the NZ Herald, Trade Me are banning all iPhone auctions as they can’t be sure that the sellers actually have the goods in their possession. Seems a bit drastic but I guess when you command the majority share of the market, you can afford to lose a few auctions here or there. Upcoming […]

Well done to the Wellington based Ponoko team for getting good reviews at the huge TechCrunch40 conference over in San Francisco. They have a unique idea and I think they will do well. Especially when you look at all the other companies on display – very few good ideas, most of them are just new […]

And for those that just read my blog in their favourite feed reader, you wouldn’t have noticed that I changed the theme of my site from the over-complicated Freshy theme, to the nice, simple, clean theme from Bob. Check it out and let me know what you think. This is the first step towards getting […]

Another good result from my mountain bike trip to Rotorua, is that I came back to Wellington motivated to get back in to cycling to work. Just three days in to it, I feel great already – I’ve been waking up earlier, been more productive at work, and just feeling good all round. It’s amazing […]

As a result of the awesome mountain biking in Rotorua last weekend, I’ve adjusted my front forks to give them an extra bit of travel to 130mm. I also invested in a new front tyre, a Specialized Pro Resolution, as I was finding that the Kenda Karma tyres were a little bit too slippery in […]

A camera phone shot of Mt Ruapehu taken while driving up to Rotorua last weekend. Pretty cool…

Google have just released a couple of important updates to the Google Reader application. The biggest update is the search feature that has now been added. It seems strange that it’s taken them this long to add it, but it’s here now and it works well. This also gives you the ability to search in […]

I’ve been persevering with Vista 64 bit over the last few weeks, but I’m failing to see any benefit in sticking with it. Very few applications are native 64 bit and some applications just do not run at all. Microsoft is probably the worst culprit – last year they released Exchange 2007 and forced all […]

There have been a lot of gadget related announcements over the last couple of days. Apple Announcements Obviously Apple stole the show with their latest lineup of iPods: (images © Apple) iPod Shuffle New colours, same form factor and still just 1GB storage. iPod Nano New, ‘squashed’ form-factor, allows for a wide screen for watching videos […]

Elliot made me a lovely picture for Fathers Day, but I suspect that she had some help from Mummy too.