Archives for June 2008

Gmail Labs adds date and search features I like

I switched to Google Apps last year for my FirstBite domain. For US$50 per year I have 26Gb of space available for email, some templated web pages, a calendar, Google Docs, and the power of Google. Gmail is particularly useful and I surprised myself by switching to using the web interface. I find the threaded […]

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Try the Bullit NetNewsWire style

One of the (many) things I like about NetNewsWire for reading RSS feeds is the ability to choose a stylesheet for displaying and reading feed content. I’ve long used and enjoyed Ollicle Reflex, for example, which looks great and resizes images to fit the width of the reading column. Plus you can switch on the […]

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Awww Facebook…

And in today’s email: Facebook to me Gloria sent you a message. I know that this letter may be a very big surprise to you … I believe that you will be honest to fulfill my final wish before I will die. I am Mrs. Gloria Caldwell from LONDON, I am 58 years old, and […]

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Webstock – it’s a passion

Mike Brown has written a great post called Webstock – the past and the future about the fabulous Webstock conference and minis: We ran it as volunteers, outside of work hours and, again and mostly, as fans. Around 500 attended in February [2008], and again it had a wonderful feeling of community and being part […]

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TradeMe safer now; TradeMe goes mobile

In the last couple of days I bought goods from two separate TradeMe auctions. In both cases the goods arrived promptly and in excellent condition. It’s been the same for everything I’ve bought on TradeMe and for that matter the few items I’ve bought on eBay. There are cheats and frauds about though, and many […]

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Dog exercise lighting petition in Wellington

These winter days are tricky: being dark from around 5.30 pm to about 7 am it’s hard to fit dog walking into daylight hours. Luckily I’m able to walk the dogs in the late afternoon, but many people have to choose darkness or no walk. Although there are many official exercise areas around town, and […]

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Palindrome and the International Year of Astronomy 2009

Yes, there’s an astronomy movie — Palindrome: Palindrome is the official motion picture event for New Zealand’s contribution to the worldwide 2009 International Year of Astronomy. It’s a psychological drama about a guy trying to fulfil his childhood dream of being an astronomer. I’d have quoted the full synopsis, but the Promo page above has […]

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Webstock 09 – in planning

Planning is underway for Webstock 09: We’ve booked the Town Hall venue in Wellington again for the week of 16th – 20th February 2009. After being part of the organising group for two glorious Webstock conferences, and the various Minis etc, I have recently, reluctantly withdrawn. There’s a huge amount of work in organising such […]

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Annoy your supporters – use pictures for text

The invitation arrived from a local community group: would I like to attend their next important event? It looked gorgeous — it had a frame, the logo, beautiful colours, a ‘handwritten’ script. But it was really annoying, and not very useful. You see, this was just a picture of text, and you can’t do much […]

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Google Earth Layers rich information

I often go out and look at the stars. Sometimes I take a telescope or binoculars — astronomy’s a hobby. Every single time I spend more than a couple of minutes gazing at the night sky I see at least one satellite whizzing by: north to south, south to north, west to east, there’s always […]

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Does Wellington hate dogs? And walkers?

Well said, Linley! Dogs have a hard time of things in Wellington — I’ve a bone to pick with you: Let me start this column with an Alcoholics Anonymous-style confession. My name is Linley Boniface, and I am a dog owner. This is an increasingly brave admission to make in Wellington, which can now safely […]

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Beautiful images in the Telescope birthday trailer

Available now at 400 Years of the Telescope is a gorgeous, almost 3 minute long video trailer for the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first telescopic observations of the cosmos. The trailer uses beautiful images of cosmic features, some in almost 3D. A 27 Mb .m4v file, it’s worth the download. The web page itself carries […]

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