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I saw the Transformers movie last night. I thought I would feel out of place in the theatre and was one of the first to sneak in, but everyone who followed was a late twenty to thirty-something all sneaking in to see if their favourite die cast friends from
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I was asked the other day to provide my expert opinion (expert = someone who has written at least 2 lines of code before) on Apollo (now released as AIR) from Adobe and how it compares to Ajax , which to be honest I had to admit to at the time I
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Here is an interesting vid from the MS research team. I wonder how tired you arms will get working in Photoshop?
Getting Things Done
Today we (Vianet) made an exciting announcement with Trade Me that we are building “the next big thing” in online tourism, and so we will be showcasing our tools to the New Zealand tourism industry. This is exciting for me for one simple reason. We are making online tourism work.
Stuff I Like
Although it will be a while before we see one here on our fine shores, we can live vicariously through the apple ads (besides Apple ads are so good you don’t need to actually own the product to be cool, just watching the ads makes you cooler). I never
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Nice art
Getting Things Done
Sometimes the first step is the hardest in any journey and adding features to a software product is no different. Although I love Visio, UML diagrams, and requirements specs; they usually have too many rules and procedures attached with them. I like simple. Quite often you can get bogged down
Stuff I Like
Remember when ya mum made pizza and it had spaghetti on it? Well out of pure desperation due to a lack of regular toppings for our pizza I reinvented the kiwi classic, spag and cheese pizza. First the base. Now to be traditional you should use a pre-bought base
Here is a team head count for posterity. This is already a month or so old but already out of date. I stitched this up in Photoshop.
Writing
The day is getting late and drawing to a close. As I drive the rain burns in my headlights and my wipers cry as they struggle to wipe away the greyness. I pull up at the beach running late as I always seem to be these days. Time is dead
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Here is a pic from the Windows Vista launch in Wellington today (courtesy of the Dom Post). Now it is photos like these that come back to haunt in 30 years time with the caption “remember when…” or “blast from the past” and your grand kids will have no shortage
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I have figured out the real reason for the Google bosses visiting NZ over xmas, it is all in the “Google Master Plan”. If you study the whiteboard diagram you can see that “buy New Zealand” is a crucial step, before “Robots that build other robots” and “the matrix”. Nice