Dear Patrick Kershaw I see that you are new to Twitter. You’ve posted two tweets from your Twitter account (@patrickkershaw1). Perhaps just one if we consider your latest tweet to be a sign-off: “has decided twitter is a fad… and this will [...]

The question antenna has received a transmission: Morning I have a 597e Air card, which I use as my only means of connection as I am not on a landline, here. I see it has a socket for a extension aerial, [...]

Due to the massive interest in this competition, I’m posting the results up in this new blog post. Check out twitter.com/nzben right now for live results, and I’ll update this post once I’ve completed the draw. Done! And the winners (who [...]

This review is unique, simply because of the bizarre path of estimation I took when reviewing Piano Wizard. Like most reviews, I kicked off with a passing glance at the product, garnering a first impression, before putting it aside for [...]

This is one of a series of “classic posts“. Resurrections of old posts that I enjoyed writing, and you might enjoy reading. I had a massive flashback on Sunday. A flashback to the days of running a beat-up old car. [...]

Update for clarity: The on-demand component of TiVo is completely unusable on any ISP other than Telecom. It’s not that you have to pay for data, it’s that you can’t even get the data. I have a question currently with [...]

Here’s the video from this morning’s segment on TVNZ Breakfast. Click here to enter the competition. Entries close Sunday night (20th September 2009) As always, the review on Breakfast is horribly rushed (and of course Paul was as, err… helpful as [...]

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Apologies for the web server issues earlier. The wonderful guys at SiteHost have solved my problem and everything should be swimming along now. If you had any trouble entering, try again just in case – I’ll manually remove duplicates. You saw [...]

Here’s a short video we did on Campbell Live a few weeks back. It explains the concept of Geocaching - a great hobby you can get involved in with just a GPS and a tiny bit of brainpower.

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It’s all Microsoft, all the time on Ben.geek.nz at the moment. Last week it was a week of brain-bending SharePoint training with Steve Smith from Combined Knowledge. This week I’m working with Mauricio from Geekzone on the Unnoficial Tech.Ed Blog. We’re [...]