As a football fan, it\’s great to see the footballers making fun of themselves. For those of you who follow football, this was a recent sketch from Comic Relief. Interestingly, Peter Crouch (one in the front row) did the \”rope\” as part of his celebration after scoring a goal in tonight\’s 2-1 win over Ukraine.
Comic Relief – Sketch comes true in England 2 – Ukraine 1 Read More »
The Government has announced $1.5Bn worth of investment to provide fibre optic cables (dark fibre) as the basis for the new broadband infrastructure. Unfortunately, Kerikeri is not in the 25 largest centres that the money is being spent on. Hopefully the rich and famous who live or holiday locally will generate some reason to increase
Faster Broadband, but not here…Boo Hoo… Read More »
With April 1 hard coded into the Conficker virus, expect some headaches shortly. We will either hear the gnashing of teeth and wails of \”Not Me!\” or a whimper as the virus is reactivated. Here in NZ, there were some high profile casualties, Ministry of Health, Polytechnics, Newspapers sites Whether lessons have been learnt, we
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An upgrade to the algorithm used by Google to rank website relevance to a users query is being rolled out today Google is today rolling out a key upgrade to the algorithm powering its search engine which is based on \”Australian-made\” technology originally developed by a PhD student at the University of New South Wales.
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Owen Thor Walker, a 19 year old, who was wanted by the FBI for his part in leading the group the A-Team has been employed by Telstraclear for nearly a year to provide information for seminars. Telstraclear made an interesting comment when they said: He said it was not the equivalent of hiring a bank
Hacker \”Akill\” contracted to Telstraclear Read More »
Bugger I missed it, yesterday was Talk Like William Shatner Day Here is a great video of an impersonator giving lessons. Very Funny. So….I\’ll have to….remember………it next…..year. I\’m Declaring 3/22 \”International Talk Like William Shatner Day\”!
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While these are not software problems (mainly because my attempts to downloaded were thwarted) these show a serious lack of foresight on the behalf of the behemoth. Problem 1 – If you run Firefox, you can download it I went to the download site, chose my country and operating system and waited for the download
Why can\’t Microsoft get it right? IE8 is out and already I have found problems Read More »
Here is a video from WebProNews about the new Google Friend Connect API More WebProNews Videos With this, it allows you to integrate many social style interactions (Comments, votes etc) into your site. Google have created some Open Source plugins for WordPress, Drupal and PHPBB. I will look at adding the WordPress plugin here and
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In an interesting use of the internet, a NZ court has allowed the serving of court papers via a Facebook profile. It follows a similar Australian ruling You can read more about it here But this shows how the internet can be used as a great communication medium. So be careful when you accept that
You have a new Friend on Facebook – The Courts Read More »
When Google bought DoubleClick last year, there were plenty of concerns from privacy advocates about what this would mean. Well this new initiative seems to be the logical conclusion. Google is now using DoubleClick cookies to track users browsing habits and serve up ads relating to that browsing history. From a web developers point of
Google hit the target with DoubleClick\’s DART Read More »
