New Zealand Edge goes daily
New Zealand Edge – Global community of New Zealanders – have launched a blog to accompany their website and email publications. The New Zealand Edge aims to: Introduce metaphors and contemporary...
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Annotation logic in AutoCAD?
Heidi Hewett's Blog: Annotation Scaling 106 The process for scaling annotations in AutoCAD 2008 is quite different than in the past. You’ll have to adjust your thinking a little… not because it...
Save the Kiwi (Apteryx) from the Flying Spaghetti Monster Kiwi Motivation Test
How could the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) threaten our national icon, the New Zealand Kiwi (Apteryx) ? This submission to a well recognised Government Conservation Agency explains it all:...
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No news is no news...
Stuff hit the mark in this article on the Commerce Commission and TWL. I have a theory where all this will end but (to corrupt a quote): “I might very well think it; but I couldn’t possibly comment...
Conan O’Brien at Intel HQ
We don’t see Conan O'Brien in New Zealand, which is a pity! This tour of Intel reminds me of the Vericorp scenes from one of my favourite movies: David Byrne's brilliant " True Stories " via...
If your P-lab blows up, should you be treated?
You have to wonder, when the genuinely ill sit on waiting lists, is it worth wasting money treating morons who blow themselves up cooking methamphetamine… I suppose they must to but it must be toug...
Religion ends and philosophy begins...
"Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends and astronomy begins." - Christopher Hitchens onegoodmove: Lou Dobbs - Christopher Hitchens Lou Dobbs interviews Christopher Hitchens author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything… onegoodmove: Lou Dobbs - Christopher Hitchens
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Mindjet announce MindManager 7
Mindjet have announced the MindManager 7 product range which will be released on May 30: MindManager Pro 7 replaces MindManager Pro 6. MindManager 7 Mac replaces the MindManager 6 Mac. Min...
I know what it means, to miss New Orleans, nearly...
It was ironic that I chose the Qantas/American Airlines option over Air New Zealand/United for the trip to New Orleans because the timing and connections in the USA worked out better and it was cheape...
Inventor LT, free technology preview! UPDATE 04-05-2007: USA/Canada Only
My dad is a talented engineer and can machine, weld, craft pretty much anything. I’m very much not a talented engineer but have always been interested in engineering design software. The hope was it c...
James Randi's “collective nouns” for Skeptics
These are brilliant James Randi's Swift - April 20, 2007 Here’s the best of the additional submitted “collective nouns” I asked for last week. There were hundreds offered… A whiff of Aroma...
ANZAC Day
I’m in the USA today so there will be no local ANZAC Day commemoration. ANZAC Day - Memory of Private ERNEST THEODORE BOCK