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Is this really the Teapot Tape recording?
As posted on SoundCloud: 2Johns2Cups by goldenturkey This is what police raided NZ media over? Even RadioNZ, which never had the recording but only reported on the issue? :::FACEPALM:::
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Megaupload and the US grand jury
Megaupload again: according to the US Justice Dept, Dotcom, Batato, Bencko, Echternach, Ortmann, Nomm and van der Kolk were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on January 5...
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Google Docs a phishing site
Oh the irony; Chrome warns that Google Docs has been reported as a phishing site..
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NZCS Newsline: Making a difference this year, the app economy, who owns the...
Subscribe to Newsline | NZCS Website This Week at NZCS NZCS: Making a real difference in 2012 Paul Matthews, NZCS CEO For our industry and sector, 2012 brings a major opportunity to make a...
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NZCS Newsline: Engagement in schools, smartphone horrors, games R18+ and IT...
Subscribe to Newsline | NZCS Website This Week at NZCS Engaging tomorrow's IT Professionals in schoolsBen Smith, Projects and Engagement, NZCS As mentioned in last week's Newsline, 2012 is the year...
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NZCS Newsline: NoSKA, TPP, Inbox War, Sabu, ICANN, Privacy breach and...
Subscribe to Newsline | NZCS Website This Week at NZCS Bad news on the SKA plus #TPP updatePaul Matthews, NZCS CEO Those who follow such things will know that New Zealand and Australia have been...
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The Windows Phone 7.5 bouncing tiles bug
(Ignore mumbly audio that the other phone didn't record properly.) Goes away after a reboot, and I can't replicate it. The bug shows up every now and then on the HTC Trophy 7 and makes the phone...
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NZCS Newsline: Draft CloudCode released, iPads, the Bechdel Test and ICANN vs...
Subscribe to Newsline | NZCS Website This Week at NZCS Draft Cloud Computing Code of Practice releasedJoy Cottle, CloudCode Facilitator Six months ago the process kicked off to Develop a Code of...
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Getting some traffic from the Department of Homeland Security
Well, I don't know if this blog will be visited by US government spiders, but according to Animal New York, the below search terms are used by the DHS to monitor "social media". Ho-humm. Let's see what...
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Huawei Massage
Chinese telco supplier Huawei has been in the news a great deal lately, having had some problems getting the message across that it's not affiliated with China's People's Liberation Army or PLA. In...
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Nokia upgrades: Symbian Belle for the N8 and MeeGo PR1.2 Harmattan for N9
I still use the Nokia N8, even though it really didn't bowl me over with the original version of Symbian ^3 installed. Flashing the phone with Symbian Anna made it much more usable, and a while ago, I...
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An ironic post for all the hipsters out there
You people think single-speeders is where it's at, but Vietnam has a few things to teach you about two-wheeled coolness. Oh yeah.Picture taken in Hoi An, using a Samsung NX11 with the 18-55mm kit zoom....
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All my eggs in a basket
Vietnam is unfortunately covered in cheap plastic like most parts of the world, an environmental mistake of huge proportions that will come back and bite us, hard. They do however have alternative...
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Cleanest inflight entertainment system interface ever?
Doesn't get much simpler than this IFES screen on a Vietnam Airlines between Hanoi and Saigon. Well, there's the small matter of not having anything resembling a keyboard with which to input any...
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The exceedingly influential Mr Stephen Fry
I am already bowled over by how a few lines of tweeting by Stephen Fry shakes things up particularly in New Zealand. Somehow, Fry's utterances carry a tremendous amount of weight down here....
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Conversation with a spam bot
"Alexis" appeared uninvited in my Google Talk or Chat or whatever it's called now. I suspected it was a spambot so decided to see if it was any good. It wasn't. Seriously, do people fall for this kind...
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Travelling gear
A recent trip to Vietnam resulted in this story about Intel's Assembly and Test plant in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City - and some long overdue rest and recreation, thank goodness. I'd never been to Vietnam...
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Zune, a DRM nuisance
Microsoft's alternative to iTunes, Zune, looks kind of cool and can be used to upgrade Windows Phone 7 devices. What it isn't good at though is selling stuff for Microsoft and others. There were some...
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