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I just received an email alert from Telstra Clear saying that I have gone over my 20GB traffic limit for the month. Seeing that we’re only ten days into the month it seemed strange, so I jumped on to the Telstra Usage charts (which I check fairly regularly.) The screenshots below show my usage for […]

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 […]

Ben Hunter, a consultant with Microsoft Services in NZ, has recently started a blog focused on BDD 2007. There’s already heaps of great content on there and it’s worth following if you’re involved/interested in Microsoft’s latest BDD framework. Link: Ben Hunter

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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Day three of TechEd has just finished with brings the event to an end. We were all a little bit weary after the brilliant TechFest last night but we still managed to get in a couple of good sessions. The Active Directory session from Brian Puhl was quite interesting as he went through the details of […]

Breaking news just in… Telecom have just announced that they will be voluntarily separating their retail and wholesale businesses. Telecom will be following the lead of BT in the UK and Telstra in Australia although they will still operate both businesses under the same Telecom brand. Source: Computerworld

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 stumbled across this site recently via Tim Haines’s blog – fivepointsix.co.nz is a new photo sharing site based in New Zealand. I’m always interested in local offerings of services that are usually only available overseas – Zoomin is another good example of a great NZ site. I’m not too sure about the fivepointsix site […]