Lukas is back online

I just noticed that Lukas’s blogis back up and running again.His new blog is on https://blog.svoboda.co.nz and the RSS feed is here Welcome back online Lukas.…

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Innovation & Creativity: Where did you go?

Right so it seems the hot topic of today is TradeMe’s launch of their Job listing service… This actually had me start thinking about the following. What happened to innovation? It seems to me that a lot of companies in NZ and world wide see others doing something and then going, that looks like a cool thing to do we should do that too… and then they do and we end up with multiple offerings of very very similar services, so whats the point there? Maybe there’s something I don’t get, but unless there is a significant…

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Microsoft Subsidaries using google adwords!

This just caught my attention, was looking at my blog this afternoon and I spotted the following: I couldnt help but clicking the add to see where it will take me. I ended up on MS Germany’s Visual Studio / Visual Web developer’s page. I wonder why MS Germany are using Adwords!!…

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ICANN meetings in Wellington this/next week

I read in The Press yesterdaythat ICANNwillbe meeting in Wellington from 25-31 March and that one of the things thatwill bein discussion is the registration of the .xxx domain extension. Apparently the Bush Administartion is trying to stop the realization of this domain extension. For the following reason. “Over 6000 people made their objects by either E-mail or a letter. They are afraid the new .XXX domain extention will legitimize the porno industry.” I’m not sure what legal consequences the realization might cause but IMO having the extension available will really make things better.…

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Chris live blogging from MIX

It looks like Chris Auld has started his live blogging from Las VegasforMIX06. Keep an eye on his blog for live info on whats going on there. Here’s his first post and I’m sure there’s more to come..…

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More on Vista

So far I’m very happy with my Vista experience, I’ve managed to installed WinFX and VS 2005 last night and everything went smoothly with no issues during setup. Will post more as I start playing with WinFX a bit. One thing I didnt talk about in my previous post of the things I liked, is the way the ‘All Programs’ menu behaves now. The changes are great. If you recall the old programs menu, you’ll remember that you could endup having 3 to 4 panels open and if you slip your hand in the last panel, outch…

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Go get yourself a geekzone blog.

There has been a few posts about the new Geekzoneblog feature lately. Want to know what people think. Mauricio, Tim , Darryl and Nic all posted about this. I was lucky to get no 9! Still not convinced you should try it, thenhere are my comments! 🙂…

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