The Cloud & the Emperor’s new clothes
I first encountered “the cloud” back in ’88 when working for a network comms company and back then it was a pretty “out there” concept. The internet wasn’t even a word we knew. Then sometime in the last 10 years Amazon Web Services started offering file hosting with complicated API systems to save and retrieve [...]
facebook has a long way to go – wishlist
Normally I’m a very casual facebook user. My tweets are posted automatically and I check up on what my friends have posted. I don’t belong to every page with a cutsie name and I’d have said my requirements were minimal. Then I decided to use it to do something funky and the whole thing falls [...]
Free Sleepout for State House Tenants affected by Canterbury Earthquake
This relates to another business of ours but its one way that we can personally help those caught up by the Earthquake – whether they’ve stayed in Christchurch or moved away. Free Sleepout for State House Tenants affected by Canterbury Earthquake Roommate Cabins would like to help out with overcrowding situations because of the Christchurch [...]
No excuses at Chris-Floyd.com
I just received a phishing email pointing to http://www.chris-floyd.com/images/stories/tmp/pal.php but purporting to be from KiwiBank (I don’t bank with them). A quick google and I found http://empireburlesquenow.blogspot.com/ and in the sidebar it says Surely if there are relentless hackers you stay vigilant and look at what you have on your site that lets those hackers [...]
AllMutt.com celebrates all the Mutts
Any website that covers cute dogs is bound to be a hit, right? My little guy is a cross between a smooth haired fox terrier and a wire haired fox terrier. The result is a rough coated, even tempered bundle of energy. I found All Mutt.com which discusses the different (designer?) cross breeds and how [...]
iPad apps are reinventing the wheel?
In a fit of enthusiasm my iPad was bulging with it’s 11 pages of apps within days of coming home. When the call goes out with “who has my baby?” my kids know I’m not after a child! I’ve recently discovered www.instructables.com and I asked if the had an iPad app as well as their [...]
Be afraid, be very afraid!
So you have a great idea for a site, you buy a domain, throw a WordPress site up on your shared hosting and upload a free template and every cool plugin known to man. Within an hour you’ve written 5 blog posts and dropped a link at dp so within 2 more hours the spiders [...]
Auckland hosts WordCamp, and aint it great!
When you’re a WAHM freelancer the first thing you notice is the lack of techies to talk with so it’s great to be able to break out and attend events like Auckland’s WordCamp. I only made it to the afternoon session but the techie sessions were worth going to: An intro to HTML5 and CSS3 [...]
