This is an HDR picture of my hometown Wellington. The building on the left is 1 Willis St o oops Majestic Tower, 1 Boulcott St. It is taken from Frank Kitts Park (see …

Our kiwi friend Rhy Darby AKA Murray from Flight of the Conchords stars with Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Boat That Rocked.
It’s about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music …

Expert guitarist Peter J Grahame, performing outside Nelson’s Independent Theatre and Arts Centre.

The Zune player was mocked this week on the Family Guy. The episode “Oceans 3 and a 1/2″ includes Bill Gates and a narky Zune comment.
You can see the clip here on hulu. (Warning: USA …

While in Auckland New Zealand, Top Gear’s Richard Hammond speaks his mind this week about Top Gear and it’s cultural phenomenon in a 1965 Lincoln Town Car Continental.

As Microsoft always strives to be less sucky that the last thing that Microsoft did, Windows Mobile 6.5 is a movement in the right direction. Highlights include a friendly hardware start button, the honeycomb touch …

The New Zealand Department of Conservation officers travel to the subantarctic to save wildlife and plants on remote islands

The New Zealand National Museum, Te Papa is currently housing a collection from Boston including some Monet and Cezanne paintings.

Aside from my MacBookpro, I have a Dell D600 which served a purpose about 3 years ago. Luckily it is now repurposed as a Linux Netbook running gOS 3.1, a version of Ubuntu Linux specifically …

The Ferraris used in the Australian Top Gear Live shows recently were not real. According to Drive Magazine in Australia, they where Ferrari shells on top of Toyota MR2s:
Underneath their exotic red panel work, the …

Team New Zealand has decisive victory over the Swiss boat Alinghi by winning the Louis Vuitton Series 4-1 in the best of five final.

After the Microsoft purging in early January no one department was left untouched including the team working on the Zune player. All of Microsoft’s divisions are losing money except Windows, Office, Tools and Business CRM
Although …

Although I think Facebook has a real future if it concentrates on building out it’s me centric hub, the future is less clear despite buying $35M worth of time to figure it out according to …