So I was talking to a friend of mine recently, he happens to live in the US, but I don’t hold that against him. He was telling me that he’d gotten into an argument with a couple of his friends .. over how they were doing when playing Rock…
From a story on Stuff: “A Canterbury horse trainer has died after being kicked by a foal on his Leeston property.” This is, of course, an unfortunate accident, and tragic for the family and friends of the man involved. Sadly my first mental image upon reading the summary above was…
They have these all over the Zoo. I’m pretty sure they mean “No Animal Karaoke”.…
Reported today in Stuff.co.nz: National leader John Key has just got a late Christmas present most New Zealand families being squeezed by soaring interest rates and high prices would envy – a tropical holiday home in Hawaii. Now … I am not at all pro-National, though I was actually a…
The NZ Herald tech columnist Peter Griffin[1] writes the following: I’ve been back and forth on email over the last few weeks with a Herald reader who believes his internet connection is being throttled back extensively because he is a big user of peer-to-peer file sharing systems. I…
So the battery life on my Nokia N95 phone has never, frankly, been very stellar. However, in the last couple of days I have been using a bluetooth keyboard with it, and thus I have had to enable Bluetooth on the phone, which previously was disabled. This has had what…
15/04/2008, originally uploaded by jsr.spathi. Fresh healthy cook-arts! This sign was at my local Noodle Canteen. Cook-arts!…
I’ve been watching episodes of an anime called “Denno Coil” (which translates, I believe, as “Circle of Children”) which are set in a world where augmented reality (in this case, via digital overlays to human vision by means of special technoglasses) is commonplace and mainstream. The show is a…