Oliver Erlewein on July 28th, 2010

What can I say, I start this blog entry with a down side. The beautiful WYSIWYG editor that WordPress has, does not work on the iPad. That makes writing this not the easiest of tasks. Well, I downloaded the WordPress App and at lest I can type as much as I like. The iPad…. Well [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on June 4th, 2010

I created my Twitter account sometime in 2009 but just couldn’t figure out what to do with it and what it was for. So I dropped the whole subject and fired up FaceBook. 2010 and WeekendTesting is gaining traction. In the process of getting involved I was confronted multiple times on how I could NOT [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on September 9th, 2009

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on July 30th, 2009

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on July 14th, 2009

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 24th, 2009

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.

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Oliver Erlewein on May 24th, 2009

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 9th, 2009

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on March 15th, 2009

[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…

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Oliver Erlewein on March 8th, 2009

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 [...]

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