July 2004

Apple 2004 Expo

Kiwis: you’re invited to the Apple 2004 “Digital Solutions” seminar series & expo with the latest and greatest technology, fantastic partner exhibition and a seminar series. And it’s all free! It’s on all afternoon. Dunedin Tuesday, 31 August 2004, Dunedin Town Hall Christchurch Thursday, 2 September 2004, Christchurch Convention Centre Wellington Tuesday, 7 September 2004, [...]

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Belleville, c’est Magnifique!

I had no idea that the Triplettes de Belleville would be so astonishingly funny. The 80 minutes went by so smoothly in enraptured fascination as the story of abduction and dogged recovery unfolded. The superbly distorted caricatures were hilarious — the grandson competitor in the Tour de France cycle race was all leg muscles, gallic [...]

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Queues for iPod Mini

I still don’t see why someone would want an iPod Mini instead of the larger version, but then by all reports you have to actually hold one in your hand to understand it. Meantime worldwide release has come to pass and in Tokyo 1500 people lined up before the Apple Store opened in order to [...]

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Technover 50

It’s a little disturbing to read that Strathclyde University’s Senior Studies Institute is offering classes for the over 50s on how to send SMS text messages, send pictures, and download mobile pictures and ringtones. [Via:engadget.com.] On the one hand I’m all in favour. On the other, it’s not much more than 18 months till I [...]

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$50 a megabyte for email

An article celebrating fifteen years of PC World NZ reminds us of the good old days: June 1989: the 4MB of memory (expandable to 8MB), make it a powerful luggable. May 1992: Extra RAM is $120 a megabyte. July 1992: … a 2.4kbit/s modem … Compuserve’s $49 an hour April 1994: … $50 a megabyte [...]

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Metapoem

Rachel McAlpine’s Metadata would be the only poem I know of on the subject. Nice one!

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