Aug 10 2007
Windows Script Host 5.7 has just been released for Windows 2000, XP and 2003. WSH 5.6 shipped with Windows XP and version 5.7 shipped with Windows Vista so this is the first that 5.7 is available for the other operating systems. I’m not sure how many changes and incompatibilities there are between versions as there is very little documentation available at the moment.
Download links for WSH 5.7:
Aug 09 2007
As I posted before, I made it along to the Gadgets, Games and Geeks event that was hosted by Unlimited Potential (UP) at the Wellington Convention Center. It was an interesting night, I wasn’t too sure what to expect but I was hoping that there would be lots of gadgets to look at. Disappointingly there were no gadgets on show apart from a demo of the Apple TV by Hamish from Soundline.
The speeches were interesting though and for me the highlight was Brian Sweeney’s inspirational talk about NZ Edge and how living on the edge of the world definitely has its advantages. There were also talks on marketing in a Web 2.0 world, game development in NZ, OpenSolaris, and a fun talk about some of the new Apple products.
The post-speeches dinner was great – lots of oysters, mussels, eel (a first for me), prawns, salmon wraps, etc… I met up with Brenda, Sandy, and Mauricio, and also had an interesting chat with John Clegg from ProjectX.
Sandy spent some time explaining to me what ‘Agile‘ is all about, and although it originated in the software development world, it seems like a lot of the Agile ideas could apply to infrastructure projects too. I’ll have to look into this some more.
Update: Photo of Sandy, Brenda and me taken last night
Aug 07 2007
Haven’t been blogging much recently, as you can tell by the lack of posts. I’d like to say that I’ve been too busy (I have) but the amount of time I’ve been spending on Facebook says otherwise.
Anyway, I’m heading along to the Gadgets, Games and Geeks event hosted by Unlimited Potential (UP) tomorrow evening (Wednesday, 8th August.) If you’re heading down there too, let me know and I’ll shout you a beer (they’re free!) Call/text on my mobile (021766940) or let me know through email or Facebook.
Aug 03 2007
Rowan Simpson just linked to this article which removes the extra step when adding feeds to Google Reader from within Firefox. Usually you’re presented with a choice to subscribe to the feed with either Google Homepage or Google Reader. If you only ever use Google Reader, this step is unnecessary and can be removed by following these instructions:
Type about:config in the address bar, and change the following two entries as follows:
browser.contentHandlers.types.2.title = Google Reader
browser.contentHandlers.types.2.uri = http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/%s
Aug 03 2007
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
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 visit the site to see the sidebar.
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 – outside! And if you can’t take your dog for a walk due to health reasons, try one of the many dog walking services in your area.
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 each other already. Unfortunately nobody thought to take any photos so I can’t post any pictures of the happy bloggers discussing blogging, Facebook, RSS, anything 2.0, and all those other cool, geeky things.
If you’re a blogger in Wellington and you’re not on Facebook – you’re missing out.
Update: Mauricio did what I couldn’t be bothered to do and linked to everyone who came along. Read his post here.
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 great use of social networking and they make it very easy to keep track of the events you and your friends are attending.
There are lots more features planned too, such as RSS feeds for your favourite events and the ability to publish the events you are attending directly to online calendars such as Google Calendar, as well as other social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. You can view my profile through the link below and if you add me as a friend you’ll be able to keep up to date with the events I’m attending.
My profile: Stuart Maxwell User Profile | Eventfinder