Flickr decision to use Yahoo’s maps instead of the far superior maps from Google or Live Local, shows that they were obviously forced to use them by Yahoo. What do you think – should Yahoo force Flickr to make decisions based on political reasons rather than technical reasons?read more | digg story
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25 August 2006
TechFest comedian
I posted this video from my vSocial account in a previous post, but I wanted to see for myself how good the quality is on the DivX site. Watch this video and then compare it to the one on this post.
¶Chief Happiness Officer Rocks
Since finding this site, it’s really got me thinking about culture in the workplace and how most companies need to make some huge changes. (it’s even made me change my voicemail greeting to a much happier sounding tone!)
Here’s a bunch of recent posts that are worth reading:
Ask the CHO: Dealing with uncertainty at work
Top 5 [...]
How to prepare for an interview
One of the interesting articles that popped up was how to prepare for an interview by prepping yourself with 50 common questions. The famous one that I’ve encountered often wasn’t there: “What’s your biggest weakness” but someone asked about it in the comments and got a harsh response.
The reply to the comment was that if [...]
Catching up on my reading
Now that I’m back in Wellington after the four days in Auckland for TechEd, I’ve been catching up on my reading. Fortunately, FeedDemon is great to work with so I’ve got everything all up to date now.
Funny little bug keeps cropping up though. I’ve got FeedDemon set to open links in an external browser (as [...]
New DivX Video Sharing Site Launched
I just wrote a quick post about Stage 6 on the beta @ amanzi site going in to more detail about this, but it’s basically a YouTube competitor but with WAY better quality videos. The downside is that you have to manually install a plugin but it’s definitely worth doing as the quality is amazing!
Here’s [...]
23 August 2006
TechEd 2006 all over
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 the [...]
Citrix User Group in NZ
Lukas Zawilski has recently started up the New Zealand Citrix User Group and is looking for interested people to sign up. The site has recently been updated with the Drupal CMS software. You can register with the site here: http://www.cug.co.nz/?q=node/9 or just browse through the site here: http://www.cug.co.nz
Tags: citrix, cug, drupal
TechFest 2006
We went to TechFest last night, the big geek-fest that Microsoft puts on for all the attendees to TechEd. The event was held at the St James theatre and featured a couple of comedians and a few bands. The highlight was local band, The Feelers – they were awesome live.
Here’s a video from last night, [...]
Day two of TechEd
The second day at TechEd was pretty good. The best sessions I attended were the Exchange 2007 ones. Charlie Chung gave a flawless demo of Exchange 2007 and its integration with PowerShell.
The worst demo of the day came from Softricity whose session I was really looking forward to. Their presentation was all marketing based and [...]
