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Rowan’s blog reminded me that I had been meaning to update my contact details on this blog in the hCard standard. In case you have no idea what hCards or microformats are, then read these two articles for more info: Wikipedia, Microformats. And in case those articles are too technical, then all you really need […]

You too can stalk all of your contacts’ online movements through a new service called Spokeo. I found out about this on Guy Kawasaki’s blog and he explains how it works: Spokeo finds information about your friends—long-lost or not—and then tracks their online activities as they make updates. These friends don’t have to “invite” you, […]

While I was in England I visited the Apple Store in Bluewater and had the pleasure of playing with an iPod Touch for the first time. It’s just as good in person as it looks in the demos on the web and I’ve ordered one from the NZ Apple Store as they are cheaper over […]

Just a few interesting links from this morning’s news reading… From Boing Boing: LA Times religious reporter loses faith My favorite news magazine, The Week, reprinted this fascinating personal account written the LA Times’ former religious correspondent. Nine years ago, William Lobdell was assigned to cover religion for the LA Times. He was a born-again […]

[tags]telstra clear,geekzone,broadband,internet[/tags] From the Geekzone forums, I found out about TelstraClear’s speed increases on their cable network – FOR FREE! (Official press release here: More broadband speed for free) More broadband speed for free TelstraClear has doubled the speed of two of its most popular InHome broadband plans.  The free speed increase raises downstream speeds […]

As far as I’m aware, Microsoft have been keeping very quiet about Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Paul Thurrott even theorised that Microsoft may never release a SP3 for XP. So it was interesting to read two posts on the TechNet Blogs site, mentioning the “forthcoming XP Service Pack 3.” This is the first […]

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[tags]skype,voip,phones,internet,telephony[/tags] I’ve been meaning to sign up with the Skype-in service for a while now. Skype-in is a landline phone number that transfers to my Skype account when called. The cool thing about a Skype-in number is that you can get it in one of 18 countries around the world. This is useful for me as I […]

A cool story about how blogging and Google brought a present to our daughter, Elliot… Over the last few days, we have received lots of presents from friends and family for the arrival of Elliot, who sends her thanks by the way. But one present from Karen and Jason had the wrong address on it, […]

Jeff Jones (Strategy Director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit) has written a post about Server Core and how its reduced footprint increases security dramatically. The key here is “reduced attack surface area” as all of the most insecure areas of a server have been removed, such as IIS, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc… […]