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Microsoft today released Virtual PC 2007 to beta testers via the Connect website and I must say I am quite underwhelmed. We were expecting some form of multiple snapshots and a better management console, but neither are to be seen in this release. read more | digg story

Internet Explorer 7 is just about at RTM and will be delivered to all Windows users as a high-priority, automatic update this month. What does this mean to you? Well, whether you like it or not, shortly you too will be running IE7 if you aren’t already. read more | digg story

When will the music industry learn? Read this post from the Techdirt website to see how ridiculous American law is… Someone who prefers to remain anonymous sent in the following link, highlighting a dispute in an Oregon restaurant that used to allow live bands to play. It turns out that, recently, one local band played […]

“The main goal of User Account Control is to reduce the exposure and attack surface of the operating system by requiring that all users run in standard user mode…” It all sounds good, but there are two fundamental flaws with the way it has been implemented in Vista. read more | digg story

UPDATE: Craig finally got the matter resolved with Flight Centre and is happy with the results. Read more here for details. The NZ blogosphere may not be as powerful as in America or Europe, but there’s a good number of people blogging about the story of Craig being ripped off by Flight Centre (and then […]

For the first half of Rockstar Supernova, I was convinced that Dilana was going to win and that there was no else who even came close to her. BUT – I think Toby has really been rocking it lately and his performance tonight was the best of the night! He had the whole crowd singing […]

Breaking news, and I’m trying to confirm this, but it looks like it’s a sad day for Australians. Steve Irwin died in a freak accident while diving at the Low Isles off Port Douglas. Apparently a sting ray barb punctured his chest killing him instantly. This really is a sad day… News.com article

Flickr decision to use Yahoo’s maps instead of the far superior maps from Google or Live Local, shows that they were obviously forced to use them by Yahoo. What do you think – should Yahoo force Flickr to make decisions based on political reasons rather than technical reasons? read more | digg story

I posted this video from my vSocial account in a previous post, but I wanted to see for myself how good the quality is on the DivX site. Watch this video and then compare it to the one on this post.

Since finding this site, it’s really got me thinking about culture in the workplace and how most companies need to make some huge changes. (it’s even made me change my voicemail greeting to a much happier sounding tone!) Here’s a bunch of recent posts that are worth reading: Ask the CHO: Dealing with uncertainty at […]