Last night was a magical evening. Roger Waters’ show at North Harbour Stadium was one of the most impressive shows I’ve ever seen. It was equally as impressive as November’s U2 gig if Waters himself didn’t make as good a frontman as Bono.
My review of the Roger Waters gig for the Herald is here.
While I [...]
Good bag of feedback to today’s Webwalk column which was in turn based on the deluge of feedback to the last story I wrote about broadband. The horror stories keep pouring in. Microsoft’s response to Peter Gutmann’s criticisms of the DRM features of Windows Vista, is the subject of this Herald story I wrote in [...]
Posted below is my most recent Herald on Sunday column about the wireless HDMI Philips was showing off at CES earlier this month. The article didn’t appear on the Herald website - maybe something to do with the new position of my column in the paper. Hot Technology has become Tomorrow’s World and will take [...]
If you’re a Pink Floyd fan you’ll be interested in this 35 minute video of a bunch of talented French musicians, dancers and choir singers performing the band’s 1969 class is Atom Heart Mother in its entirety. Atom Heart Mother is one of the more obscure and overlooked Floyd albums. It transitioned the band from [...]
Heading back from the US for the fourth time in as many months, I sat back and listened on Air New Zealand’s in-flight entertainment system to Don McGlashan’s magical solo album Warm Hand. I was never a huge fan of the Mutton Birds, though Anchor Me and their cover of Nature have to go down [...]
So, were Google’s mega-rich bosses holidaying in New Zealand or do the world’s wealthy just make a habit of lending each other their private jets? Whatever the case, they didn’t appear to visit Eurekster in Christchurch.
The year appears to have got off to a good start for NZ tech companies if the latest reports ring [...]
Surprise, surprise… Telecom has once again greeted the New Year with price increases, this time a $1.85 line rental increase for many people. The cost of calling 018 from a mobile will be bumped up to 75c per call.
Telecom has for years raised its prices early in the New Year in line with CPI increases. [...]
I’m in Seattle, relaxing at the airport before my flight to San Francisco then on to Auckland.
I’ve been using T-Mobile wi-fi hotspots to stay online during my time in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Seattle and I must say, I’m impressed.
Also, I just did a speedtest from Seattle to Auckland for Juha at Geekzone and [...]
This release just arrived in my Inbox from Cisco. It was clear that Apple hadn’t nailed down a deal with Cisco when Steve Jobs walked onto the stage at MacWorld in San Francisco yesterday. But most people expected that he must have made some informal agreement with John Chambers that would be followed up with [...]
Microsoft’s New Zealand pricing for Vista has been released and is outlined below. It’s pretty much what was widely expected. Windows won’t be cheap but here’s the thing - how many people will actually be buying a new copy off the shelf?
Most people will be either upgrading, buying discounted copies, getting it bundled with [...]