Trade Me, the behemoth on NZ’s Internet

, posted: 2-FEB-2010 11:07

How busy is Trade Me these days? According to Trade Me developer Jay, very busy: Yesterday being Monday February 1, 2010, Trade Me served up almost 2.4 million pages an hour, or just under 40,000 a minute. Wonder how much data the 1.4 billion page (read the entire post)...



Losers in the Apple iPad launch

, posted: 28-JAN-2010 09:20


There it is then, another culture-changing device from Apple, as Mike Elgan puts it. The iPad may not be everything to everyone, but Apple has launched the device with its usual thoroughness, and it's backed up by apps, media and 3G right from (read the entire post)...



Twitter.com DNS hijacked?

, posted: 18-DEC-2009 18:50

Twitter.com seems to be hijacked at the moment:
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;twitter.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
twitter.com. 1901 IN A 74.217.128.160
;;; QUESTION SECTION:
;160.128.217.74.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER S (read the entire post)...

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Microsoft being a Onecare

, posted: 13-NOV-2009 15:25

All right, I know it's good to that Microsoft provides a free malware scanning utility and that I'm being a bit of a duck to have a go at them, but nevertheless, the Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner is a bad idea that should be taken down fast. Fo (read the entire post)...

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First test on Vodafone NZ HSPA+

, posted: 12-NOV-2009 08:30

At Vodafone HQ with Scott Bartley from PC World and Chris Keall from NBR, trying out HSPA+. On my Dell Studio 17 laptop and a Huawei K4505 USB stick, the results are...

Pingtest:



And the hoary old Speedtest:

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Geek garden update

, posted: 5-NOV-2009 12:46

Wet and warm keeps the green stuff happy. The garden is growing like anything, something that most New Zealanders are undoubtedly accustomed to, but for me is a Being There experience that still amazes. Have had lovely, sweet strawberries for the las (read the entire post)...

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Brothers in spam – the Atkinsons

, posted: 3-NOV-2009 21:23

The conviction of Shane Atkinson in the High Court in Christchurch for spamming was a long time in coming. In 2003, when I wrote about Atkinson as a huge "make big penis fast" spammer, the reaction from the public fed up with huge amounts of offens (read the entire post)...



Today’s incomprehensible Windows security warning

, posted: 29-OCT-2009 08:47

Not enough caffeine in bloodstream this morning, and I fat-finger an Excel 2010 formula. Can't see what I've done wrong so click on "Get help with this error." Watch a window pop up with this warning: Wait. "Microsoft Office" from "Microsoft Corpor (read the entire post)...



Why would anyone buy the Wolfram Alpha iPhone app?

, posted: 19-OCT-2009 11:01

From the curious marketing strategy department: @duncn in Nelson pointed out via Twitter that the new Wolfram Alpha iPhone app is rather optimistically priced:"the Wolfram Alpha iPhone app looks cool, might pass since its sixty-five fricken dollars!! (read the entire post)...



Apropos that new Telecom logo

, posted: 16-OCT-2009 13:12

Tonight there will be son et lumière courtesy of Telecom New Zealand, as the telco lights up the Auckland Ferry terminal.

Rumours are flying around that this old logo, some eight years by now:


...will be repla (read the entire post)...







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