Jan 29 2008

Back in the swing

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Been a bit quiet on the blogging front recently as we just spent a week up in Cooks Beach in the Coromandel. The weather wasn’t too good due to the effects of a tropical cyclone that drifted towards us from Fiji. But overall it was a good break and I managed to catch the monster […]

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Nov 01 2007

New version of Blogtown NZ uploaded

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Blogtown NZ has been updated to the latest version to fix several security bugs and to add new features. One of the new features is native tagging support although this needs to be built into the themes to see the tags.

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Aug 07 2007

Gadgets, Games and Geeks

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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 […]

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Aug 02 2007

Wellington bloggers meetup

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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 […]

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Jul 05 2007

History of my blog

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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.

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Apr 10 2007

Return to Blogging

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I’m back blogging again after a hectic month in the Maxwell family… First I resigned from my position at Datacom with the intention of getting into the contracting market. In typical fashion, nothing came up until the last week when I suddenly had two contracts to choose between. So I’m now contracting through a consultancy […]

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Apr 03 2007

DRM-free iTunes downloads in NZ?

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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 […]

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Sep 28 2006

No laughing in the ScobleShow

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I started watching Robert Scoble’s new show today, aptly name the ScobleShow. I like it. I watched the first episode with Jonathan Schwartz, who is the approachable CEO of Sun Microsystems. Jonathan is passionate about Sun and its technology and it comes across in the interview. Heck, I want to build something big just so I can use […]

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Aug 18 2006

So you want to be a blogger?

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Interesting reading for any current or wannabe bloggers, the blogosphere is not quite what you expected! A blog-peasant, one of the Great Unread, comes to the wall of the castle to offer a tribute to a royal, and the royal drops a couple of coins of attention into the peasant’s little purse. The peasant is […]

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