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Google Doctype - Google Code

Thursday, 15 May 2008 6:42 A GMT+12

Glass Hammer – Twilight on Longview

Thursday, 15 May 2008 5:32 A GMT+12

Vatican Puts Stamp of Approval on Belief in Aliens

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:26 P GMT+12

Incrave – Dead End

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 8:39 A GMT+12

Greet - A Groovy Twitter Client

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 4:27 A GMT+12

Greet - A Groovy Twitter Client

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 1:32 A GMT+12

Mailplane 2.0 beta

Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:55 P GMT+12

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Job Search 2.0

Sunday, 16 March 2008 9:18 P GMT+12
Four weeks ago I gave notice at Bulletin and start working with the guys at SecureMX tomorrow. I've been meaning to write something on this for the last four weeks or so but never really managed to get there. In a quite timely blog post Ted Leung wro

Sony Ericson Xperia (Windows Mobile Phone)

Monday, 11 February 2008 8:11 P GMT+12
So Sony Ericson just released their first Windows Mobile 6 based device. Read all about it over on Mobile Burn. It's a sweet looking device, and I doubt I'll ever get my hands on one. mobile

Kai Kanola off camera

Wednesday, 29 August 2007 9:40 P GMT+12
I'm just watching Kai Kanola talk about all of new Nokia toys and I'm surprised his camera crew is letting him walk off camera all the time: Amusingly, Kai just spoke of illegally recording a Rolling Stones concert and sending it to his friends -

Reblogging - Diego and Russell Return

Wednesday, 11 July 2007 10:44 P GMT+12
It's good that not only has Diego rebooted his blog, but Russell's also returned to the fold - welcome back - I look forward to reading. <!-- technorati tags start -->Technorati Tags: mobile, blogging<!-- technorati tags end -->

El Cheapo VOIP Phone

Saturday, 3 March 2007 4:59 P GMT+12
Picked up an el-cheapo USB Skype Phone from Dick Smith Electronics today - not sure if I'll use it much as I don't use Skype - favouring Google Talk instead, although the new release of Gizmo Project is looking interesting. Amusingly I sent myself a

AT&T Apple Phone?

Saturday, 13 January 2007 3:10 P GMT+12
Given that every man and his dog is writing about the Apple iPhone I wasn't planning on making any comments on it, but now that I see that the Cingular branding is being discontinued I'm wondering if we'll actually an iPhone with Cingular after all.

New Phone and Plan

Saturday, 13 January 2007 2:39 P GMT+12
After getting several rather hefty Vodafone NZ bills (too many SMS messages to the g/f) I decided it was time to switch my plan over to something that didn't suck. So now I have a You Choose plan with 60 minutes talk time and 600 free SMS per month.

Instant Mobile Messaging - Pull Me Push Me Make Me Beep

Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:32 P GMT+12
Several weeks ago a new version of our popular UK product Bulletin Mail was released with support for external IMAP, POP3, and Jabber/XMPP servers. A Bulletin Mail account gives the user an email address which maps to their mobile allowing anyone t

Users are stupid

Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:47 A GMT+12
A support call just came through the office: "I've downloaded your desktop SMS sending application and saved it to my desktop, but everytime I double click on it, it runs an installer and doesn't send a message, how do I fix this?" DOH. Why ar

Vertu Ascent Pink

Wednesday, 11 May 2005 9:17 P GMT+12
A new era in mobility - The New Vertu Ascent Pink: This is a phone for women who are modern, confident and like to show their feminine side... Someone fetch me a bucket, its time to throw up already. Soft pink backlighting adds a touch of fe

Spring + Groovy + Services

Tuesday, 26 April 2005 11:59 P GMT+12
So I've just been playing around with integrating my spring based application, with groovy scripting, nothing emensely fancy, but it's starting to open some interesting ideas. A simple "Shell" class reads a spring configuration file, and binds all

Telecom Rubbish Film Fest

Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:59 P GMT+12
I noticed on the TV earlier tonight an advert for Telecom New Zealand's new Rubbish Film Fest, a film festival aimed around movies made on their new 3G mobile handsets. One thing that strike me is the reference to them being "rubbish", is this jus

Jabber SMS transport

Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:14 P GMT+12
Ages ago I wrote the beginnings of an SMS transport as an experimental test-bed for applications at work, unfortunately other-project upon other-project always seemed to get in the way of actually furthering the code, or getting any XMPP related func

In the news again...

Tuesday, 29 March 2005 2:20 P GMT+12
Following last weeks reference in cellular news, we're in the local newspapers again.

Trains, Phones, Reflections, and a dark tranquil blood bath...

Monday, 14 February 2005 11:59 P GMT+12
Today I learnt an import lesson - NEVER PUT YOUR KEYS AND YOUR PHONE IN THE SAME POCKET! And then proceed to sit in a cramp bus jammed against the side.... I now have some shattered and cracked P800 phone which is basically useless. Hopefully I'll