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Thinking about fitness

You may have felt like you were going to die running up that hill, but if the stats show you that you had 10 more bpm in your heart muscle, then you’d better go out there again and punish yourself.    Read more...

Hey Orcon, can you hear me now?

For the last month I have been having trouble with my connection to Orcon. The connection has been disconnecting at random times, and moreso when under load, like downloading a large Linux ISO over bittorrent.    Read more...

Older Posts

Weight Weight, Don’t Tell Me

Hark! The WiFi Scales from Withings.com. Once you’ve set these up with a bit of your standard jiggery-pokery (nothing too onerous), you simply stand on them once a day, and everything else is taken care of.    Read more...

Apple: iPad WiFi + 3G and iBookstore Limited Release

This does not bode well for iBookstore availability in New Zealand, especially when we consider that the Kindle is still not available in New Zealand. What the heck is going on with New Zealand book publishers? Care to comment?    Read more...

Apple iPad in New Zealand

The Apple iPad has burst through the cloud of rumour and speculation. A crepusclar ray in the shape of a giant iPhone with a 9.7″ IPS screen, custom 1GHz Apple A4 processor, 16-64GB of memory, 3G and WiFi, and 10 [...]    Read more...

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Net Neutrality is Dead. Long Live Net Neutrality

Is net neutrality already dead in New Zealand, and if so, is that a good thing? With sweetheart deals popping up from all ISPs, what does the “new” net neutrality look like?    Read more...

Review: Baby 2.0

We’ve spent three weeks testing the new model Baby 2.0, and it has been a mixture of surprise and familiarity.    Read more...

Net Neutrality: Why you should care

Some things that are so important that you need to stop, dear reader, and take the time to understand. Internet neutrality is one of these things.    Read more...

Learning from the Vodafone HTC Magic Debacle

Today, for reasons yet unknown, Vodafone NZ has completely removed the HTC Magic from sale in New Zealand. They’ve removed all mention of it from their website, and removed existing stock from store shelves.    Read more...

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Thinking about fitness

You may have felt like you were going to die running up that hill, but if the stats show you that you had 10 more bpm in your heart muscle, then you’d better go out there again and punish yourself.    Read more...

Weight Weight, Don’t Tell Me

Hark! The WiFi Scales from Withings.com. Once you’ve set these up with a bit of your standard jiggery-pokery (nothing too onerous), you simply stand on them once a day, and everything else is taken care of.    Read more...

Review: Konusmotor 130 and Leica Ultravid 10×42

I’ve tried cheap telescopes and binoculars many times, and the results have been sufficient. That is: the items I viewed appeared larger than with the naked eye. But like any precision device, there is a leap in clarity and usability [...]    Read more...

Random Posts

Nokia Loses the Plot

   I’m sorry, but I’m sure I’m not the only person who thinks the latest batch of Nokia phones are damned ugly? Some designer needs a slap.    Read more...

Upgraded, and back to Jaiku

Just some housekeeping: I love being on the svn version of Wordpress.  Putty to my shell account and type "svn up" is all I have to do to upgrade. Twitter is so incredibly broken at the moment.  I can’t understand how there [...]    Read more...

Searching the AOL Search Records

No doubt you’ve heard about AOL’s colossal screw-up, whereby they released hundreds of thousands of ‘anonymous’ search queries for the purposes of public research. Downloaders quickly discovered that because each search term is tagged by a user id, it [...]    Read more...

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