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My catch of the day at the Huka Falls Prawn Park A new decade – a new start? It would be nice to be able to resurrect this space and do some “fun” writing again. The pressures of the last eighteen months have meant that, apart from tiny Twitter-bytes, I haven’t done any real writing about [...] Last weekend a member of our family circle was involved in an awful accident. She was horrifically injured, and although now making some tiny steps towards recovery, will be in hospital for several months. Her life will never be the same. At first the news came through to the family via phone and text. My heart [...] I have put together a quick and dirty page for tomorrow’s blackout – http://www.nixit.co.nz/blackout.htm - feel free to use, remix, whatever I’ve had a fiddle with the Maintenance Mode plugin (which is where I got the idea) and will see how that works. In an update to my post yesterday, Google have announced that they are discontinuing some more products. They are closing down their Mashup Editor (suggesting a move to the App Engine) and are stopping development of Google Notebook with the suggestion that people move their notebooks into Google Docs. Found at Google Blogoscoped. Today’s xkcd comic took me back nearly two years. It took me back to a post that I wrote about hammers and nails, lanyards and USB keys. The new year has brought about new resolutions and ideas. I bet more than a few bloggers woke up on January 1st with ideas to up their post quantity [...] I’ve been following (rather sporadically) some of the information about copyright restructuring (aka reform) in New Zealand. Unfortunately, at the moment I feel that I’ve been rather too busy to be proactive and I have turned into a reactive person. Over the weekend I discovered that the National Library of New Zealand had been trawling the [...] … you can’t win either way … Steal This Comic from xkcd Last week I managed to get my hands on a Flip Video (talk to Edsoft if you want to buy inside NZ). I’ve looked at them a few times and coped through my gadget lust. This time I fell prey to the cravings and bought the thing. And I am so glad that I did. [...] I’m just back from visiting a relative in a brain injury rehabilitation unit. My sort-of-sister-in-law had a stroke less than a month ago and although still unable to care for herself is making steady progress. Fortunately she has not lost the ability to speak (or her sense of humour). She has some great stories about [...] Test the strength of your email security – CNET check out how easy it is for someone else to recover YOUR password. — Lifehacker’s hivemind give you the best five media converters but … UPDATE: MPEG StreamClip from Squared Five is an amazingly excellent tool to to open and play most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; [...] |
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