…or it would have if I’d been holding one two days before Christmas as I queued in The Warehouse in Henderson waiting for the eftpos network to come back online. It didn’t and I joined dozens of shoppers in abandoning our merchanise and leaving the store empty handed.
The 90 minute meltdown in eftpos operator Paymark’s [...]
20th Century Fox has gone live with a rather well put together website for Vincent Ward’s historical drama River Queen at www.riverqueenthemovie.com. It’s a beautiful site though IT will take a while to load at its highest quality setting over dial-up. It even took a minute per section over my Woosh connection.
Of interest is [...]
My Hot Technology column in the Herald on Sunday gives some tips on things to watch out for when buying an mp3 player. I post it below along with my top five picks for mp3 players:
It seems everyone wants to live their life to a personal music soundtrack these days. I was standing at the [...]
I write game reviews in the Time Out section of the Weekend Herald under the title Joystick (I didn’t have anything to do with naming the column). By and large, game reviewing is a fun if not time-consuming way to earn a few bucks.2005 for me will go down as the year that Microsoft’s Xbox [...]
I caught King Kong last night, shelling out for the luxury of the Cinelounge on Courtenay Place. It was $4 bourbon and cokes delivered to my lazy-boy recliner and a never-ending popcorn supply. I needed it. We caught the 10.40pm session and didn’t get out of there till 2am. I got a chuckle watching a [...]
1. Digital Cities
1.1 Warm fuzzy initiative
The government in New Zealand has made $24 million available under the ‘Digital Cities’ scheme to drive new infrastructure developments in the country. Cities can apply for funding of projects under the scheme.
While the project has been widely applauded, and indeed on paper it looks like a warm fuzzy initiative, [...]
In a previous blog I posted some excerpts from research by the Australian telecoms analyst Paul Budde about wireless internet provider Woosh Wireless. Budde has strong views about why New Zealand is in the toilet when it comes to broadband penetration and our comparability to other OECD countries in the area of telecommunications. He thinks [...]
Looking over my Webwalk columns for the year I noticed I devoted a lot of time to a: talking about Google, which I think is the world’s most innovative internet company and b: internet services which are free to use yet incredibly useful.
My column in today’s Herald outlined my favourite free services which were either [...]
Many of the articles I write are about telecommunications services and devices - phones and calling plans, high-speed data cards and wireless gadgets. The problem with doing that in this country is that there are just two mobile phone networks so you’re only ever comparing the latest smartphone of monthly account package to one other [...]
My column in the Herald about missing out on U2 tickets and the subsequent scalping of the tickets on Trademe.co.nz provoked a mixed bag of replies. A lot of fans are bitter at Ticketmaster, the ticketing company handling the two gigs to be held on March the 17th and 18th.
I can understand their frustration at [...]