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Our copy of Hungry Caterpillar has crayon scribblings and torn pages, but I’d rather read from this to my daughter over a digital version.

What does the future hold for broadband in New Zealand and why do we need another fibre cable across the Pacific? These and many other questions will be answered at Unlimited Potential’s UPLoad broadband debate. Meet some of the luminaries behind the New Zealand telecommunications industry and find out about what better broadband might do for the ICT sector in Wellington.

UPLoad – Unlimited Potential

mac:

Excellent iTunes tip.

dwineman:

iTunes tip: if, during a restore or a particularly long sync, it looks like it’s stuck on the “Optimizing photos” step, click the tiny Play button at the left side of the LCD. That should toggle the display to show what it’s actually doing (probaby copying your entire Streisand collection, you big silly).

Those hooking up the latest MacBook Pros to an HDTV using an HDMI adapter can now do so a little more easily: Apple has updated its implementation of Mini DisplayPort to pass audio signals through to any device that supports them.

New MacBook Pros support audio over Mini DisplayPort

Disciplining young children is one of the key jobs of any parent — most people would have no trouble agreeing with that. But whether or not that discipline should include spanking or other forms of corporal punishment is a far trickier issue.

Study: Spanking Kids Leads to More Aggressive Behavior

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View from the radar station on Hawkins Hill.

Elliot after finishing a chocolate icecream

I should have done this a while ago, but I’ve moved my blog over to Blogtown NZ, which is the free, blogging site that I run. It didn’t really make sense that I was self-hosting my own blog while encouraging others to host their blogs with us on Blogtown.

I’m still using my own domain name through the use of the domain mapping feature, which is one of the benefits of becoming a Blogtown NZ supporter, so all previous links should still work. The WordPress export and import feature made it pretty easy to migrate my old posts and comments into the new blog.

If this is to believed, that’s one of my predictions come true (though not a difficult one)

With production time of its Tablet approaching, Apple has been making its final decisions on which components will go into the device, which is due out in March. Unfortunately for Intel, it didn’t make the cut, says Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar, based on conversations with Apple’s design manufacturing partners.

There has been speculation that Intel’s new generation of Atom chips was in the running for the slot, but Apple ultimately chose a processor developed by P A Semi, a chip shop Apple acquired two years ago, according to another analyst familiar with the so-called build plan.

via Exclusive: Apple Tablet Has No Intel Inside | Technology | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com.