Archive for August, 2008
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Aug 31st
Let me tell you a story about an Ant and a Grasshopper. This story has changed over the years. So we’ll tell the original “old” version first, and then we’ll learn the more modern version of this story.
Web 2.0′d out
Aug 31st
So I’ve decided to reduce my footprint. My online foot print that is. I’m just really starting to find myself Web2.0′d out. The time investment required just does not make it worth the effort anymore. Today I closed my Facebook and Last.FM accounts. I have also decided to stop using my Twitter account and cut…
Helen Clark admits she knew of Glenn’s donation
Aug 28th
Helen Clark has released a statement to the press, before Parliament sits, admitting she was told by Owen Glenn about the $100,000 donation back in February of this year. She states she then spoke with Winston Peters on the phone who denied it then. This is after Mr Peters told the Privileges Committee he did…
Winston Peters must be suspended
Aug 27th
This cannot continue. Parliament is now a farce. Helen Clark has sacked ministers from her own party for less than we now see facing Mr Peters. Benson-Pope was sacked for lying, Dalziel for lying… Lets not forget Dover Samuels. We now have two very successful business men making very public statements, on record, that completely…
UK’s A.S.A. tells Apple off over the iPhone 3G
Aug 27th
The iPhone 3G is really starting to prove to be a headache for Apple. Especially now that the ASA in the UK has upheld a complaint stating the iPhone 3G was advertised with misleading information. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the combined phone, music player and computer is flawed because of the absence of…
Better be better than beta
Aug 26th
Am I alone, or is everyone really getting tired of the whole “its in beta” culture that seems to pervade the software industry today? Some days I look at my Gmail mailbox and I see that word beta on the bottom of the logo, and I wonder how on Earth Google can still call something…
The mature guild
Aug 22nd
So I’m in a new guild in Age of Conan. It’d been so long since I played it at all, that the last guild booted me out for inactivity. Fair enough I guess. Work and life has come first lately. This new guild approached me because apparently I was pumping pretty high DPS rates as…
Winston says… but doesn’t converse
Aug 15th
So I finally had the opportunity to go through and read some of Winston Peters blog called “Winston Says…” and I have to say, I’m kind of underwhelmed. So far its mostly rhetoric and not really being used as anything more than the corner soap box. In fact, worse than that, he maintains almost exactly…
NZ ISP Slingshot caching private pages
Aug 15th
Rachel over at cre8d-design points out that she and a fair few others are having a few issues with Slingshot caching pages they shouldn’t be. This afternoon I tried logging into Gmail as I usually do to check my email and discovered that I was logged into someone else’s account! I got a real shock…
The flick of the switch
Aug 14th
The site has been updated with the new theme. Search works now. All old permalinks fail. Read the full post for more information.