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meetings this morning, then babysitting Elliot this afternoon.

Elliot’s Dishy Hat: I bought this cool, Dishy hat for Elliot from Martha’s shop, Wanda Harland (I also bought a matching one for Deb too – they’ll look so cute together on a summer’s day on Oriental Parade!)

I have just changed my Facebook status to: ‘Stuart does not have to say “is” anymore’.

That’s right – looks like Facebook have finally listened to the requests of users and have removed the requirement to have to start your status message with the word “is”.

And I’ve just checked Google Reader again and nobody else has mentioned this yet. Could it be that I’m the first blogger to scoop this?

I bought this cool, Dishy hat for Elliot from Martha‘s shop, Wanda Harland (I also bought a matching one for Deb too – they’ll look so cute together on a summer’s day on Oriental Parade!)

Doesn’t she look cute…

I subscribe to lots of blogs written by Microsoft bloggers, and my favourites are from those who aren’t afraid to poke a little fun at themselves and their employer. Here’s a post from The Sean Blog making fun of the fact that when you right click a removable drive in Windows Vista, the kind “Safely remove” and the destructive “Format” commands are 1/8 inch apart. (image leeched below)

These are the bloggers that are helping Microsoft to gain more of a people-friendly reputation, rather than the monopolistic, evil empire that we all love to hate. If you’re a Microsoft blogger, please don’t just regurgitate press-releases and sales pitches – have the guts and sense of humour to poke a bit of fun at yourself sometimes. We’ll like you more for it.

I’m a little underwhelmed by the announcement that Google have released a localised version of Google Maps for NZ. Sure, it’s nice to be able to type a “.co.nz” address to get to the site, and maybe it will be helpful to look for a plumber in Wellington – but when are they going to release updated aerial photos in Wellington??

Here’s the house we lived in a year ago:
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=35+reuben+avenue…

We lived there for over two years and when we moved in the owners, had built a huge deck long before. Notice the lack of a deck in the photo? But the strange thing is, at some point in the past (can’t remember exactly when) I definitely visited Google Maps and saw the deck plus the neighbour’s deck which had only just been built about 2 years ago. So at some point, Google have switched providers of their aerial photos and have gone back in time to show outdated maps.

There are lots of other examples that I can find, but don’t have the time to link to them all here – so I’ll leave that up to you to explore. Feel free to post links here in the comments.

Please Google – get these updated.

(by the way – if you ever read this post, and you can see a deck out the back of our old house, it means that Google have finally updated their maps. Thanks Google in advance.)

Link: Stuart does not have to say is anymore

I have just changed my Facebook status to: ‘Stuart does not have to say “is” anymore’.

That’s right – looks like Facebook have finally listened to the requests of users and have removed the requirement to have to start your status message with the word “is”.

And I’ve just checked Google Reader again and nobody else has mentioned this yet. Could it be that I’m the first blogger to scoop this?

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@br3nda I agree about the conchords. there’s heaps of live clips on YouTube.

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Link: Dishy hat from Wanda Harland

I bought this cool, Dishy hat for Elliot from Martha’s shop, Wanda Harland (I also bought a matching one for Deb too – they’ll look so cute together on a summer’s day on Oriental Parade!)

Doesn’t she look cute…

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