Here in NZ we’re a little off the beaten track. It has it’s advantages and disadvantages. One of the down sides is that Apple gear is usually quite a bit pricier. Over the last 2 years the prices have continually been creeping up. At first this was due to the exchange rate turning against us [...]
The Computerworld writes in their news-ticker today that “Ultrafast broadband coming to NZ“. Well kudos on Telstra for bringing us 100Mbit download rates next year. Oh wait…..
You’ll have either 5,10 or 20GB cap. So that only means that you’ll reach your download limit on the second of each month and not the fourth! What is [...]
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Well I finally did the plunge and ordered an iPhone 3GS with Vodafone on Friday (10.07.2009) at 0:01. I even made the special with the extra dock!! Put in my credit card details and off we go…..well we’re talking Vodafone. The darn order system did everything it should. Except order something! Today (Tuesday) I got [...]
Sky’s put together a nice piece/musings on why we need help if we have good UI design. It should give a lot of developers something to think about. It stresses the importance of design and designers in the IT trade. A developer is NOT a designer. Anyway have a read and think for yourself.
I’ve often (and for years now) complained about working in IT and how the product we create is to virtual to make us realise it is our creation. There’s nothing to be proud of because there’s nothing to touch. It seems as if our human nature yearns for creating something substantial. Without it we are [...]
Just back from the movies. We saw Star Trek and the verdict first…. IT’S GREAT!!! Maybe not the best Star Trek movie but definitely the best since and maybe including IV (which is/was my favourite).
Director J.J. Abrams has certainly created his masterpiece. Maybe not technically as a film but for him to take the Star [...]
[small update] So now the car’s gone and the experiment begins. I’ll be keen to see how it turns out. First I’ll have to get a CityHop card…
One of the things that just went wrong last week was that the Mitsubishi dealer took a look at my car and mumbled something like “$4000 in repairs”. For that I can buy two used Mitsus! That has sealed the fate of this car. It’s now up as wreckage on TradeMe. Hope that somebody can [...]
We read a lot about how datacenters need to be more energy efficient. PCs are becoming more and more energy efficient. That is true and is happening but what’s alarming is that we use ever more of the energy efficient stuff.
Where we had single core systems in the past we now have quad/eight-core systems. They [...]
Miraz has blogged about a subject that’s been worrying me for a while now. The new section 92a of the Copyright Act. This is the free-for-all for the music and film industry to go on a feeding frenzy. Come March NZ’s ISPs will mutate to being cops & judges. If you want to know more [...]