TVNZ's site is reviewed elsewhere by Tui, but what remains to be said is how the site relies on Windows Media and some nasty DRM. Programs are only available for 7 days, and Apple Mac users need not apply. A great opportunity lost...
So I'm sitting on the front steps of my house having a beer with Alan Bollard and his mate Darfield Charlie. And Bollard is going: "Look, it couldn't be simpler. We're all having a nice barbie. Charlie is cutting a bit of meat. The knife slips, and ? whoops-a-daisy ? off comes one of his fin
A case in point is the current dilemma of Burton the legless dick head. Now most would agree that the pending cost of keeping this cretin incarcerated is beyond the pale. Therefore as a public service I searched Trademe for some solutions to the problem. Here they are and the approximate costs...
Alex's wife lets him take the transistor radio to bed, Hamish gave up a glittering law career to think about cricket full time, and Grant's mother still looks after his full set of DB Cricket Annuals from the 1970s and 80s...
11am-1am March 10 - Undivided Benefit Concert for Cancer in association with the Look Good Feel Better Charity.
At The Transmission Room. Mayoral Drive Auckland central.
A concert where everyone is donating their time and efforts for a great cause.
After five years in captivity in Guantanamo, Australian has finally been charged and will face "trial" before a military tribunal. However, the charge - "providing material support for terrorism" - has never existed in the laws of war...
Father Ilyan is the Parish priest for Saint Michaels Orthodox Church in Dunedin. He also serves the Orthodox community in Invercargill and at times to serve the Orthodox in Christchurch. Yesterday Father Ilyan was admitted to Dunedin Hospital with a very serious illness...
In early April 2007 elections will be declared for the Boards of Trustees of the nation’s 2,500 State Schools following voting by each school’s parent body. Shortly afterwards the new Boards will commence their serious role of governing and managing their particular school.
TVNZ invited a few bloggers along to a meeting to discuss OnDemand and TVNZ's strategy. I was invited to this same meeting and I must say TVNZ are to be congratulated on really starting to open up. They are really embracing the 'net and other platforms...
An Internet search engine designed by Wellington campus digital media specialist Mark Zeman has been voted one of the world’s top 100 alternative search engines – the only one from New Zealand to make the list. The list of alternatives to Google was assembled by Read/WriteWeb.
There looks to be increasing tensions between the Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) and the Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) over the Air New Zealand restructuring. Basically EPMU is reluctantly accepting a change in conditions (mainly downwards) to...
An online account of a Latin American journey by two Kiwi bike riders traversing USA, Mexico, Central America, on our route to Rio de Janiero we leave our jobs, friends, financial respectabilities behind in favour of the unknown.
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union says today’s rise in the official cash rate just makes the need to increase wages more urgent.
