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 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 October 11th, 2009

Do we need another certification body? ITCP (www.itcp.co.nz) is doing a concerted effort at a holistic NZ IT certification. Somehow that really is starting to bug me. Do we need all these people telling us we can do something and charging a substantial fee for it? It costs about $370 to get a certification and [...]

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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 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

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 April 20th, 2009

I always knew that broadband in NZ was not the cheapest of things in the world. I’m with Telstra and pay about $80/month for 2mibt up/10mbit downstream with a 20GB cap. That’s $4 per GB. In NZ terms that even is a good deal and I must say I’m happy with the technical service that [...]

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