Oliver Erlewein on December 17th, 2009

In NZ the government has declared that raising the literacy and numeracy rate is extremely important to the economic growth of the country. That is very commendable but…. THEN WHY THE H*LL ARE BOOKS SO DARN EXPENSIVE HERE? No wonder nobody reads. It’s like 3-4x more expensive buying the book than the DVD. Even Blue-Ray [...]

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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 May 29th, 2009

Ok, so here we have what I said would come in the last election. National cannot promise tax cuts like they are proposing. Bill English said today something like “the downturn is worse than even the worst prognosis and therefore the tax cuts cannot be upheld”. Basically either he is lying and National has pulled [...]

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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 March 17th, 2009

Somehow it’s odd that I seem to be blogging more about political and environmental issues than anything else these days. I have never really considdered myself a political person. Politics was something better left to polititians. I think most people of this world nowadays think like that. The past 2 years have brought about a [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on February 18th, 2009

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Oliver Erlewein on February 16th, 2009

Peter Dunne is making some sense of 92A. He’s calling for it to -at least- be delayed. I’m really keen to see what happens in the next weeks. I still can’t believe this is going to go in without a fight…. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/connect/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10556606

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Oliver Erlewein on February 3rd, 2009

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. [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on February 2nd, 2009

IKEA is a household name all across the World. All the World? No. Two small islands in the Pacific resist the trend. New Zealand has NO IKEA! Here in NZ we live without the cheap but quality goods. Especially Europeans miss their favourite furniture store. There are hundreds of rumours around the so-called Auckland-IKEA. It’s [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on January 20th, 2009

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 [...]

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