or How to move the Firefox or Chrome cache to a RAM disk and speed up surfing by 20% or more   If you’re as old as me, you probably remember what a RAM drive is. Back in the golden … Continued

So this weekend Susan Trodden and I went to our second Business Excellence awards Another reason to get dolled up .. brilliant ! Of course that’s not all that has gone on the last few months. What a life packed … Continued

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Here’s one for the web developers of the world. Google plus one went live today, so I chucked together a couple of simple functions, to include in your WordPress functions.php theme file.   function ne_addGooglePLusOneHeader() { echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js\"></script>\n"; … Continued

It seems the international community is starting to notice some things in the NZ internet space. This recent story on El reg “Nz boffins anchor new submarine cable” New Zealand’s new US$400m submarine communications cable project, Pacific Fibre, has signed … Continued

Yep it’s the important issues I consider !!! Actually this is a somewhat important topic in New Zealand really; the laws surrounding anti-piracy and what-not in NZ. Today the NZ Herald published a story about libraries having to possibly remove … Continued

I’ve long been a fan of fast internet. When I built my country home 8 years ago I paid an extra $5000 to get a huge pole installed, so I could get wireless delivered (17kms line of site). At the … Continued

Well it seems maybe the honeymoon is over? I bought this thing late last year, as I was sick of carting around my heavy laptop.  I figured the “real” use of my laptop was basically access to email, contact, and … Continued

So todays project was shorten my URLs Seems simple enough, I’ve been using bit.ly for a while mainly to ease my tweetdeck usage But last night I thought “myself” I thought “you should do your own URL shortening” I’ve seen … Continued