Smart Stuff

NOT Smart - this story

2008-03-14T15:20:00.002+13:00

This headline appeared in Stuff recently.. "Shopping online increasingly 'dangerous'"
The story is more than weak, and demonstrates the little understanding the journalist has of the online shopping world.
If you are going to publish an article warning of the dangers of unregulated products for sale, don't confuse the story by inferring ALL online shopping is dangerous.

IE8 - Hello World

2008-03-14T14:59:00.003+13:00

Looks like Microsoft are proving thier committment to standards and interoperability.

Given the debate on OOXML and the lip service that has been paid in the past this is refreshing...
Check out the story at The Guardian

Split Enz, Christchurch, 21 March 2008

2008-01-12T13:19:00.000+13:00

Split Enz, Christchurch, 21 March 2008

History Doesn’t Repeat. It just gets better.

Split Enz, the group that helped define the course of music in New Zealand and Australia, are reuniting and hitting the road in March 2008 for a New Zealand tour that ENZ fans have only dreamed of.

Next March Tim Finn, Neil Finn, Eddie Rayner, Noel Crombie and Nigel Griggs will bring the inimitable style of Split Enz to Auckland's Vector Arena.

Audiences can expect to be treated to a typically extravagant - full of hits - Split Enz concert but The Frontier Touring Company’s Michael Gudinski says fans should also be prepared for some surprises.

It has also been confirmed that Noel Crombie will once again take up the double mantle of band member and stylist/set designer. So be prepared for some classic Split Enz costumes with a bit of modern flair and a return of the famous spoons!

Split Enz fans are amongst the most dedicated in the world, with the band’s official fanclub, Frenz of the Enz, boasting 15,000 paying members from across the globe. In recent years, the membership has increased notably as younger and younger fans have discovered the timeless appeal of Split Enz’s music.

Salmonella Dub & the NZSO, Christchurch, 8 February 2008

2008-01-12T13:12:00.000+13:00

I'm going to put a few events up on here that I'll be checking out... this one looks a beaut.

Salmonella Dub & the NZSO, Christchurch, 8 February 2008

Feel the Seasons Change with Salmonella Dub, the NZSO and special guests is an audio visual journey through Aotearoa landscapes and culture, featuring music from Salmonella Dub with guests Whirimako Black, Richard Nunns and Paddy Free, with arrangements by Tom Rainey and visual imagery from Salmonella Dub, John Chrisstoffels, Tim Budgen and Warp TV. It will be more than just a tour with Salmonella Dub and the NZSO, producing entertaining and historically significant cultural performances with a community of artists who share their voices and experiences with NZ. Conductor Hamish McKeich will be on the podium to bring all the forces together.

PART 1
Intro
Tui Dub
For the Love of it
Heal Me
Drifting

PART 2
Seeds
Love Sunshine and Happiness
Rong
Watching it Rain
Gifts

Sponsored by TVNZ

What goes around...

2007-12-07T10:22:00.000+13:00

Billy Joel never knew how much mileage this song would get.

Colossal Four-Galaxy Collision Discovered

2007-08-08T16:22:00.000+12:00

Colossal Four-Galaxy Collision Discovered

Now this looks pretty interesting...
bit more than a smash on SH1.
Maybe we need a cosmic by-pass...

BT Tradespace

2007-05-29T18:10:00.000+12:00

BT Tradespace
Now, this looks pretty interesting.
Is this the intersection of social networking and B2B ?

The Answer to Global Warming

2007-04-13T04:20:00.000+12:00

Quake Lifts Island Ten Feet Out of Ocean

Mother Nature does her balancing act...

Linn Lorkin's Kiwiana National Tour

2007-04-12T21:27:00.000+12:00

Linn Lorkin's Kiwiana National Tour | Amplifier NZ Music

I'm off to hear Linn on Sat night in Picton.
Heard her a couple of years ago in Wellington and had a great night... so hopefully I can get a few Malburians interested and go along.

Is It Better to Buy or Rent?

2007-04-12T21:23:00.000+12:00

This might give you some hints.
Nothing unexpected, but a nice little java app to play around with.

NZ's 100% Pure and Google Earth in world first

2007-04-12T17:09:00.000+12:00

NZ's 100% Pure and Google Earth in world first - 12 Apr 2007 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news

This is pretty cool - we are starting to see the real use of rich local content with globally recognised and accepted UI's.

World66 - visited countries

2007-04-11T13:04:00.000+12:00

World66 - visited countries: "

create your own visited country map
or check our Venice travel guide"

HHCTRL.OCX bug fix

2007-04-09T16:39:00.000+12:00

Certain third-party applications may not start, and you receive an error message when you start the computer: "Illegal System DLL Relocation"

Recognise this ?

This posting is just to help any Google searchers for HHCTRL.OCX.
There is a recent problem on Windows XP with SP2 for certain 3rd-party apps.. caused by a security download from Mickeysoft..
It was casuing grief on my mother's new PC so I found out the answer via a bit of searching.
Download the update and all should be well.

Internet retailing getting smarter..

2007-03-27T09:18:00.000+12:00

Marks & Spencer launches website in collaboration with Amazon

Is this the shape of what we will see in the future of internet retailing ?
M&S are posting some impressive numbers (and growth) for their internet retailing and integrating this operation with the Amazon brand and presumably fulfillemnt services is a smart move.

Little bit of Kiwi gloating over the Ockers

2007-03-27T09:02:00.000+12:00

We don't stand up to Kiwis

I think NZ Trade and Enterprise are doing a great job at promoting the NZ IT sector, clearly the potential and opportunities for exporting intellectual capital are evident.
As a small IT dev company it is hard to put on a truly professional image at global IT or trade shows without spending megabucks... and since there are often higher priorites for the budget trade shows get dumped.
Leveraging the effort NZTE is prepared to make (along with other NZ agencies like Immigration etc) makes it affordable, as well as showing the committment NZ has to the sector.
This is exactly the sort of spending/investing the government should be making to drive economic transformation.

Whoops !

2007-03-22T19:11:00.000+12:00

How to ctrl, alt, delete $48 billion -

Now this is a good story... the moral (of course there is one) - backup, backup, backup.

Start me up

2007-03-16T19:15:00.000+13:00

Gen-i start-up companies of the year named

What a great story - innovative kiwi companies doing smart stuff - and glad to see the role The Icehouse has in helping them succeed.

Web 2.0 video - very cool

2007-03-10T13:12:00.000+13:00

Check this out - simple, elegant and worth a watch.

Here we go again

2007-03-09T10:56:00.000+13:00

Another crack at keeping my online presence organised.
I am trying to see how easy it is to manage content and content filtering via feeds... I am moving all of my previous client-based stores and links to the internet..
So we will see what falls out of this exercise.