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Archives for November 2009

How to turn gold into lead

A craftsman I purchased from is sabotaging his own business.

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The web is a competition

Every word on the web is in competition with untold trillions of words. Choose your words carefully.

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Mailplane makes Gmail so much smoother

Mailplane makes using Gmail on a Mac smoother, easier and just somehow more enjoyable.

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Double headlines at the BBC

BBC journalists can now create two headlines for a story if they want to — a short one and a longer one.

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Ban commenters by IP address on your WordPress blog

Blacklist repeat spammers on a WordPress blog.

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Dark Sky Idol final round approaches

Can New Zealand win the coveted Dark Sky status for Tekapo? The competition is down to 5 finalists.

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WordPress makes a great Content Management System (CMS)

WordPress is award-winning software — and rightly so.

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What’s that bird?

These days I hear quite a few birds around where I live. Now a new one has turned up and I can’t identify it.

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Icebergs ahoy!

A small flotilla of icebergs seem to be heading for New Zealand.

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Lyall Bay Surfer

I caught a few photos of a surfer in action at Lyall Bay.

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Internet-powered people networks

People who use the Internet have bigger communities.

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Are you thinking video?

YouTube has taken hold of the public imagination. Are you working with that fact, or are you being sidelined?

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