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I’ve updated the search code for this blog so that results no longer jump into the Google site. Results now appear on the following page: http://stuart.amanzi.co.nz/search and I moved the search box to the top of the sidebar. Here’s an example search.

Cartoonist, Hugh McLeod of gapingvoid nicely sums up the history of most blogs (including mine) in the following cartoon: Now that the whole ‘Web 2.0’ fad is dying down a bit now, I find sites like TechCrunch much less interesting. I’m bored of hearing about all the new startups/mashups/acquisitions/Google-killers/YouTube-killers/<insert well known site name here>-killers.

I had no idea that NZ had its own Digg-like social news website. It’s called Scoopit, and the blurb from their blog is: Scoopit is a collection of links submitted and ranked by readers. Submit your own Scoop. View and vote for unpublished Scoops submitted by others. There’s not much content on there yet as […]

I was reading Jon Udell’s latest post this morning who is was in NZ on a speaking engagement as keynote speaker at the Govis conference. He praises the beautiful scenery here, especially the drive down the West Coast from Picton to Greymouth, then crossing Arthurs Pass to Christchurch, which Deb and I did a few […]

I’ve got a bit of blogging to catch up on, but I couldn’t resist posting this funny story… Social news site, Digg, recently deleted some news stories that were posted containing the encryption key required to unencrypt HD-DVDs. They also apparently (I can’t confirm this) banned the users that posted these stories. Unfortunately for Digg, […]

Any Microsoft Infrastructure consultant should be subscribed to the main TechNet Blogs feed. It can be a bit too much at times as there are hundreds of posts per day, but you can pick out some gems in there if you look carefully. It’s also quite interesting watching the feed as a new beta is […]

It took a major announcement by Apple and EMI for me to break my blogging silence. Yesterday in London, EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli and Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that EMI will be allowing DRM-free downloads of their entire music catalogue through Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Not only that, but the DRM-free tracks will […]

My latest blogging venture is to create a site listing all of the blogs that are based in New Zealand. I’ve created the NZ Blogs site on Blogtown NZ which is the free, blogging service that I’ve set up to make it easy for New Zealanders to start their own, local blog. I can’t track […]

I’ve created a new blog where I’ll be sharing my experiences with new, beta software. I’ve just created the first article here: http://beta.amanzi.co.nz/2006/03/04/how-not-to-design-a-webmail-service/

I’ve just published my first article to my new ActiveDir site on BlogTown NZ which is a “how to” article: “Remotely reboot a server into DSRM” Hope you like it – feel free to comment on the article.