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The NBR, or: Why you should read CrunchGear and Engadget

By ⋅ July 17, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I’m known to drift a little off-topic on occasion, but if you would bear with me for a few moments… Earlier this week, the NBR, one of New Zealand’s eminent printed business publications, decided to hide 20% of its content behind a paywall. The announcement carried a derisive tone towards “amateur” media, which has quite [...]

Incredible Customer Service from Disqus

By ⋅ August 12, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

The guys (and gals?) over at Disqus are absolutely legendary. I had picked up Disqus as my commenting system because I loved the way it deals with comments, replies, and spam. Based on the previous version, it was adequate. The upgrade to the new version added all sorts of sexy stuff like proper search engine [...]

Hello World from WordPress on iPhone

By ⋅ July 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

So WordPress have written an iPhone application. It doesn’t seem to deal with links within posts, but with no copy-paste, what are you going to link to anyway? One very interesting fact is that the application is Open Source and full source code is available online (see http://iPhone.wordpress.org). Assuming that the iPhone development NDA is [...]

Delete this feed unless it amuses you

By ⋅ August 10, 2007 ⋅ 14 comments

Delete this blog from your RSS aggregator.? If you’re one of my 230 subscribers, and you don’t find it interesting, useful, or amusing, delete it now.? How else are we going to improve the quality of the blogosphere? I’m cleaning out my closet.? I’m removing a bunch of feeds from my aggregator that have just [...]

New Version of Windows Live Writer

By ⋅ June 1, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ve been using Live Writer for creating offline posts for some time, and I love it. When I create posts in Live Writer, I can see exactly how the will look on the site (including the fact that the layout is currently screwed in IE6). The Live Writer team have come out with a new [...]

New Technorati: Spamtastic

By ⋅ May 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve used Technorati in the past and been pretty indifferent about it. It was slow and kinda unweildy to use. A recent Scoble post pointed out the update, and man is Technorati looking gorgeous now. And it’s fast. If you can’t stand the Web2 stylin’, then just go to the minimal, Googlesque search page and [...]

Catfight!

By ⋅ January 31, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m sorry if no one else finds this interesting, but I think it’s hilarious. There is a catgfight going on between top-dog gadget site Engadget and super-A-lister Robert Scoble. As far as I can make out, it went down like this: Scoble does a lot of work and doesn’t get a link (welcome to the [...]

Another test of Live Writer

By ⋅ September 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

If I recall correctly, last time I tested Windows Live Writer, it totally didn’t work.  No title came through, and the post was dated 1/1/1970 or some such strangeness.  Let’s see if it works this time. Wowsers!  It works perfectly.  I wonder if editing will work?  Yup, no problems there, and now for the piece [...]

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