I had the good fortune to attend my grandfathers 99th birthday party a few days ago. The event brought members of my extended family together in one room in ways that usually only births, deaths and weddings can only do. I’m fortunate to be able to add to the above list 99th birthdays! It’s been great to catch up with folks and renew aquaintances – the older I get, the more comfortable and appealing such [...]

I’ve been using my iPhone for just on one day and so far the experience has been largely a positive one. The only major hassle on day one was unlocking the phone via iTunes. The problem being finding the right drivers for windows 7 64 bit so it could recognize the hardware. After loading a xt network carrier file I was in full “connected” business! Most apps that I have installed so far are social [...]

I recall attending a IPENZ professional development talk about 6-9 months ago in Dunedin in which the subject of the rapid decline ofavaliable IPv4 addresses was aired. Next year is crunch time (see counter above) and based on the estimate of a million new devices connecting to the Internet each week – you’d better believe it. Great to hear of the work being done in New Zealand to prepare for IPv6 with the formation of a new task [...]

This is the name of the new content management software I’ve been playing around with at work for the past few weeks. It’s great and well worth a play if you have the time and tech to support it. There are a number of nice websites built using this kit including Radio New Zealand and AUT. Head to the vendor Squiz website for more info.