Archive for June, 2006
Kyoto a farce. UK and France way over limits
Jun 24th
We think we’re in trouble? ;-) Under Kyoto, each government calculates how much carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide its country emits by adding together estimated emissions from individual sources. These so-called “bottom-up” estimates have long been accepted by atmospheric scientists, even though they have never been independently audited. Now two teams that have monitored…
Earth hottest in quite a few years
Jun 24th
Yesterday Ian and I were discussing “Global Warming”. I prefer to call it Climate Change with the added note that it is Climate Change induced by human activities. Don’t get the wrong idea. I’m definitely not a greenie, but I do admit that humans have significantly changed the climate of the earth since the 18th…
June 06 Theme
Jun 24th
June 06 Theme, originally uploaded by kinthiri. I know how much you guys love to see my desktops that I go with. ;-) They’re so striking and wonderful. Well, after 20 months I’ve finally settled on a new desktop design I like and will probably be keeping around for a while. This is on my…
Nokia says no more CDMA for them
Jun 23rd
I’ve said for a long time that TelecomNZ made a pretty significant mistake by adopting CDMA as the basis of their cellular network. For a long time I’ve brought this up with my friend that works for Telecom, but she doesn’t care, she’s just interested in making sure her staff do their job and trying…
Developers avoiding MMORPGs for now
Jun 22nd
I don’t think there is anyone that denies World of Warcraft is King of the Hill right now. In fact, its more than just king of the MMO market right now, its king of all games in the RPG genre. No other RPG game available today for general sale can claim more than 6 million…
Thats a chunky meatball…
Jun 21st
Heh, I am progressively moving a lot of my stuff over to a new host and was about to export the Adserver database when I realised its 26meg. Fair enough, I store all the images in the database instead of on the filesystem. Then I reassessed and realised that 22meg of that 26 is actually…
Why I’ve been quiet
Jun 21st
Well, I guess I owe everyone some sort of explanation or something. I’ve not exactly been too attentive lately and things are not exactly happening at a rapid pace around here right now. ;-) I’ve been working a lot on secretshopper.co.nz. Kind of have to. I need to get that done so that I can…
Just over 3 months and…
Jun 20th
Some days you just know you shouldn’t check your email. But you do it anyway. Monique emailed me today. ;-( Just when I’d gotten to the point where I could go an entire day without even thinking about her too.
Dr Cullen gets even more duplicitous
Jun 15th
Well, after his little tirade at Guyon Espiner, what can he expect? He definitely hasn’t made any friends in the media of late, so he can’t exactly say he didn’t make himself a personal target of the media. Finance Minister Michael Cullen has backed Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard’s call for wage restraint to curb…
Sex for Travel scam? Dead air, waste of time.
Jun 15th
I’m not sure I quite follow where this is bad or wrong or whatever. Air New Zealand has announced an internal inquiry into an alleged sex-for-travel scam involving prostitutes and its staff. The national carrier late yesterday confirmed it was investigating “an alleged breach of its staff travel policy” related to staff travel privileges being…