Archive for year 2007
Merry Christmas!
Dec 21st
Given I’m going today this is just a short message to wish Everyone (yes, even you) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Now remember folks, I expect all of you to be hale and whole when I get back to Auckland. If you’re not, you’re in Big Trouble! Talk to you all in…
Ayes 63 – Noes 57 – Democracy in NZ now with added caveats
Dec 19th
I now hope Labour do win the next election. Why? Because then all these nasty little laws they’ve been so rapidly passing before the Christmas recess will actually come to rest on them. Then unfortunate part about the political system in New Zealand is that people tend to blame the Government of the day for…
A view to be shared
Dec 17th
Personal responsibility in a corporate environment. :-/ Frustrating isn’t it. You can’t say what you think because doing so could be construed as speaking on behalf of the company. In fact, in general, you have to be extremely careful of what you say anywhere and everywhere, because your name is known and Google is ubiquitous.…
Whats Steve doing? Hello?
Dec 5th
With my vacation fast approaching, and putting in a lot of overtime at work lately (its going on 1am and I’m still working on one client’s site at the moment) I really haven’t had a lot of time for much of anything in general. So you’ll just have to take my word for it that…
Harder Bodies Faster Stronger
Nov 15th
The first Daft Punk song I can remember actually knowing was definitely Daft Punk was Around the World. That was the first song of theirs that when I heard it or saw it, I knew it was definitely them. Its the song that made them stand out for me. So ironic now that one of…
Why I deactivated my Facebook account
Nov 11th
There comes a point when a service gets too big. Facebook has hit that state for me. According to Mark Zuckerberg at a recent press event to announce new features, Facebook now exceeds 50,000,000 registered users of which 25,000,000 unique people visit Facebook everyday. Facebook is doubling in size every 6 months and the users…
24 – The 1994 Pilot
Nov 11th
I’m not a big fan myself, by my mother, my brothers and a few others I know are all pretty significant fans of the show. So this is rather fitting. :-) I present the 1994 original pilot for the show 24. If you remember using technology back in 1994, you’ll find this hilarious. If you…
Bookmark Madness
Nov 11th
I have been lazy with my bookmarking over the past 18 months. I don’t use the bookmarks in Firefox (or any browser for that matter) but instead use Google Bookmarks. This allows me to go from one computer to another and still be able to access my bookmarks very easily. If that browser has a…
Super Mario theme like you’ve never heard it before
Nov 8th
Back in the 80s when I was just a wee wipper-snapper (Oooh… There’s a hint Anouska, I’m old enough to remember the 80s) there was this great little game that came out on this absolutely revolutionary gaming platform. So revolutionary I was addicted and still play it today when I get the chance. One of…
The new Gmail interface
Nov 7th
Update: Okay, so I was totally wrong and this only works if you’ve already had your account upgraded to the new interface. Sorry. My bad. So I have to come clean. I’ve been enjoying the new features of Gmail for at least the last week now. The new interface is fantastic and the IMAP functionality…