Daily English Show #11 – Wellington To Blenheim (Video)
December 25, 2011 – 7:13 am | 29 Comments

The Daily English Show, an occasional video series, has hit the road traveling through New Zealand in a United Campervan. Today they travel to the beehive (Parliament), Lyall Bay (check out Maranui Cafe review) then …

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Twitter For Restaurants In New Zealand (Video)
April 3, 2009 – 10:14 am | 4 Comments

A young Kiwi Entrepreneur has developed a Twitter service for restaurant service. The “twitter” service allows  restaurateur to read the feedback in real time.

Microsoft Between a Rock and a Hard Place
February 26, 2009 – 9:32 am | 10 Comments

Yesterday Microsoft took the usual action of filing a suit against the popular GPS provider TomTom. The case revolves around patents involving file management as well as in-car navigation features. The trick is that TomTom …

What has Facebook and Michael Phelps Got in Common?
February 20, 2009 – 9:19 am | 6 Comments

This weeks embrulio about the change in terms of service for the Facebook terms of service has unlined an immutable truth about social networking. Facebook has done an about face on the terms but this …

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond Talks about his Life (Video)
February 16, 2009 – 7:54 pm | No Comment

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.

Linux Silverlight Goes Live Destroys My Linux Netbook
February 15, 2009 – 11:06 am | 7 Comments

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 …

Twitter Lands $35Millions Worth of Time
February 14, 2009 – 12:08 am | 2 Comments

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 …

Will Mantracker Have Your Google ID?
February 6, 2009 – 12:39 am | 3 Comments

On OLN in Canada is a program called Mantracker that I watch quite regularly. This is where experienced Search and Rescue tracker, Terry Grant from the Foothills Search and Rescue Team in Alberta tracks down …

Google Latitude, The Beginning of the End
February 5, 2009 – 7:14 pm | 3 Comments

With release of Google Latitude and the birth of wide spread people tracking technology, we are onto the next stage of improved social tools at the expense of privacy. From the Google Blog:
Latitude is a …

London Stock Exchange Dies On Critical Day
September 8, 2008 – 9:27 pm | 3 Comments

Reuters reported today:
The London Stock Exchange suffered its worst systems failure in eight years on Monday, forcing the world’s third largest share market to suspend trading for about seven hours and infuriating its users.
“This halt …

Kiwi Software Companies at Cebit
April 2, 2008 – 6:41 am | No Comment
Mobile Times They Are A Changing
April 1, 2008 – 9:28 am | One Comment

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like …