Rowan’s blog reminded me that I had been meaning to update my contact details on this blog in the hCard standard. In case you have no idea what hCards or microformats are, then read these two articles for more info: Wikipedia, Microformats. And in case those articles are too technical, then all you really need [...]
¶4 August 2008
30 June 2008
Rogers Customers Angry Over iPhone Data Plans
Rogers, in Canada, are the latest telco to annouce their voice and data plans for the iPhone – and customers aren’t happy! Angry customers have set up the RuinedIphone.com website and have already collected over 12000 signatures in a petition to complain to Rogers.
In saying that, the Rogers plans look pretty good value compared to [...]
¶3 June 2008
Free wireless in airports – what’s the business case?
This morning I flew up to Auckland from Wellington and it was the first business travel I had done from Wellington in a year or two. I was very impressed to find out that Wellington airport now has free wireless access. But I started wondering to myself what the business case is for free wireless [...]
¶27 March 2008
Google launches statistics for You Tube
Google today announced that YouTube users can now view in-depth statistics about their videos that they have uploaded to the service. The stats look very detailed and similar in appearance to Google’s Analytics app, which doesn’t really come as a surprise.
The funny thing about it though, is that you wonder why there has never [...]
¶31 October 2007
iPod Touch on the way
While I was in England I visited the Apple Store in Bluewater and had the pleasure of playing with an iPod Touch for the first time. It’s just as good in person as it looks in the demos on the web and I’ve ordered one from the NZ Apple Store as they are cheaper over [...]
¶14 August 2007
Losing faith, Steampunk and Elephants
Just a few interesting links from this morning’s news reading…
From Boing Boing:
LA Times religious reporter loses faith
My favorite news magazine, The Week, reprinted this fascinating personal account written the LA Times’ former religious correspondent.
Nine years ago, William Lobdell was assigned to cover religion for the LA Times. He was a born-again Christian when he got [...]
24 July 2007
More broadband speed for free
[tags]telstra clear,geekzone,broadband,internet[/tags]
From the Geekzone forums, I found out about TelstraClear’s speed increases on their cable network – FOR FREE! (Official press release here: More broadband speed for free)
More broadband speed for free
TelstraClear has doubled the speed of two of its most popular InHome broadband plans. The free speed increase raises downstream speeds on the [...]
Windows XP Service Pack 3
As far as I’m aware, Microsoft have been keeping very quiet about Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Paul Thurrott even theorised that Microsoft may never release a SP3 for XP.
So it was interesting to read two posts on the TechNet Blogs site, mentioning the “forthcoming XP Service Pack 3.” This is the first official [...]
21 July 2007
Breaking: The Internet has crashed
Via: Nigel’s Blog
[tags]youtube,videos,humour,internet,crash,onion[/tags]
6 July 2007
I’m a Skype Pro user
[tags]skype,voip,phones,internet,telephony[/tags]
I’ve been meaning to sign up with the Skype-in service for a while now. Skype-in is a landline phone number that transfers to my Skype account when called. The cool thing about a Skype-in number is that you can get it in one of 18 countries around the world. This is useful for me as I can [...]
