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Archive for October, 2008

Kill Techsploder - make a S92 copyright complaint to my ISP, Inspire

Here’s the deal: the new Section 92A in the New Zealand Copyright Act means you can take down any site in the country.
How? Simple: make a copyright complaint to the ISP. There’s no onus on you showing in any way that the complaint is valid and the ISP is under no obligation to verify anything.
Don’t [...]

Postman knocks

I was talking to my friend Peter Griffin about the gloomy state of media today, when he reminded me of Neil Postman and Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Postman died in 2003 which is a shame, as he made some acute observations early on about media that I rather like. For instance, he wrote:
“Information has become a [...]

iPhone versus Stone

Iphone compared to a stone.

A look at the Nokia E71

I’ve had a new Nokia E71-1 for a while now (it’s going back tomorrow) and was going to review it for one of the publications I write for. That went out of the window, so I thought I should post my thoughts on the E71 here instead. Joel Spolsky reckons the E71 is the best [...]

Help translate Facebook into English (UK)!

Translate Facebook into English (UK)…

Tokyo Stock Exchange Bubbles, Literally

Hey, I’m Jefe, a mate of Juha’s. We happen to hang around the same parts of Auckland’s underbelly, and after we found out we could ride bikes and drink together we became friends. If you’ll indulge, please allow me to guestblog.
OK, so a good friend lives in Tokyo. For the past couple of years he’s [...]

Busy

Writing, not blogging… same stuff I suppose, but the former comes with deadlines. They’re bad, because they creep up on you, mmkay?
Better attend to them now, in fact.