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It’s been a while since I’ve last posted, it’s been a busy couple of weeks. I’ve been working on the Blogtown site a bit recently too and I’ve just released a major overhaul to the front page and registration system. I’ve opened up registrations for now, but may suspend them again depending on the number […]

This is part 1 of the beta @ amanzi review of Microsoft’s antivirus offering for the home user. Overall the software looks good but is let down by a couple of small glitches, and one bigger glitch that lets you unzip viruses to your desktop! read more | digg story

This is big news in New Zealand! Internet auction site, Trade Me, was sold today for $700,000,000 (NZD). The sale makes Sam Morgan (founder) one of the richest men in NZ. Read more: http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3594845a13,00.html

I’ve been getting a few comments on the site recently which I always enjoy. Not all the comments have been positive, but that’s OK – it’s all about engaging conversation. I highly recommend to anyone commenting on this site or any other blogging system to use coComment. It’s a free service that you can use […]

Just read about another new Technorati feature on Robert Scoble’s blog. It’s called Technorati Favourites and it allows you to upload your blogroll into the site and keep tabs on your feeds from there. I’ve added mine already and you can find them here: http://technorati.com/faves/amanzi To add my site to your favourites, just click on […]

Sad news today… The Ricky Gervais Show just released the last episode in the first series. This extremely popular podcast had been at the number 1 spot on the Apple Podcast directory for the last couple of months boasting over 2 million downloads per month. What’s even more sad is that they are now pulling […]

I’ve been playing around with a lot of beta software recently – this also includes beta services that are popping up all the time from the new “Web 2.0” companies. I can’t remember a time when I’ve seen so much beta stuff around at once. The word beta used to be reserved for pre-release software […]

Major server crash – two weeks of email/web/etc lost… More details later.

The next version of IE has a feature that displays all of your open tabs as thumbnails in a seperate tab. Not to be outdone, a plugin has released which does the same thing for Firefox. It’s really cool – you can add the button to any toolbar or click on the icon in the […]

Update: New post on spam I get for the HearTheMusicPlay Scam Performancing for Firefox has just been upgraded to version 1.1 – you can read more here: http://performancing.com/node/945 I’ve been testing out a few desktop publishing tools for blogs recently and haven’t really found one that I like. I’ll give this one another go and […]