Archives for July 2008

Cassette tape to MP3; recalling the voices of dead rellies

One of the things I like about motel rooms is that they contain only the minimum of ‘stuff’. They have what’s necessary, plus whatever I thought so important I had to carry it with me. There’s no surplus. I have an ongoing battle at home to ditch the junk in my life. Most recently I […]

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Wellington Bus survey

The other day I caught a bus home from the Town Hall. It’s about a 10 minute car ride — maybe 3 Km. Since I have to go to the top of Mt Victoria, it’s about 45 minutes walk. I chose to catch the bus. I left the workshop I was attending a little early […]

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Make the most of WordPress Pages

My most recent article in the series at Peachpit Web Design Reference Guide has appeared — Customizing WordPress: Make the Most of Pages: Posts are the lifeblood of any blog, but the pages feature makes WordPress a very powerful content management system (CMS). In fact, you could set up a whole website using pages, with […]

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Vodafone gouges i from phone

The NZ tech world has been abuzz today, and not in the good way. Vodafone finally announced the iPhone pricing — on its website at 10am — and outrage was the response. Oh, and the Vodafone website immediately went down under the load of Kiwis wanting to know the prices and plans. It was down […]

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Use a personal domain name

Your own, personal domain name is yours. It’s attached to you. It stays with you, however you connect to the Internet, even if you switch ISPs.

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Google Trends tells you what’s popular

What’s your topic? What is your community organisation about? Does it involve keywords, such as ‘breast cancer’, ‘prostate cancer’, ‘conservation’, ‘poverty’ or the like? Do you know what the world at large are saying about your topic, and when they’re saying it? Or when they’re searching for information about it? Did you know that searches […]

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Oz: $18; HK: $24; NZ: silence

It’s Monday 7 July 2008, a mere 4 days away from the iPhone 3G’s putative arrival in New Zealand. Prices for plans are available for Australia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Hong Kong … all kinds of places 1. Meanwhile Vodafone NZ is following the mushroom principle: keep them in the dark and feed them [redacted]. Or […]

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Firefox 3 and Gmail as your default email client

I surprised myself when I moved to using Gmail by using the web interface almost exclusively. But it was annoying when I’d click on a mailto link in a web page only to have my (redundant) email program open up. Since Firefox 3 was released recently I seem to have started using Firefox a lot. […]

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Read today and gone tomorrow

Reading comes easily to some of us. Some of us can not only comprehend the text we see, but we can see it in the first place. There are thousands, millions, of people in the world who cannot say that. Perhaps they are blind. Perhaps they have literacy problems. Perhaps they’re reading a web page […]

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