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The New Zealand Herald news[paper] have added RSS to their website – Thanks Granny! Herald website adds RSS service - 15 Nov 2005 - Media & Publishing Industry
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Aviation
Big Boeing 747-8 takes on the Airbus A380?
After pushing the 787 with a message “big & long-haul is not the future”; “Boeing believes the future will continue to follow the trend of more point-to-point, non-stop flights with more frequencies and more choices for passengers. Airbus believes in the super-jumbo and a future dominated by more hub-to-hub traffic
Fiat
Fix It Again Tony?
Classic Image Top Gear | Carbage | Fiat wheelchair
Automobile
Looking for The Stig
A new series of Top Gear has recently started in the U.K.. How do I know? That spike on the “Page Views” graph is visitors to my blog, 90% coming from the Google Search “Top Gear Who is The Stig” No I don’t know, it’s not me!
Weblogs
After a rocky patch, TypePad rocks
TypePad, the blogging service that hosts this site, have recently suffered growing pains. Being popular isn’t always easy and they struggled to keep up with the growth in traffic. This resulted in performance problems, usually with the admin/authoring tools rather than visiting the blog. Today I (all subscribers)
Comedy
To give a cat a pill
Not PC: How to give a cat a pill
Cool Hardware
Ferrari CAD system?
Surely a Ferrari Monitor would speed up CAD work. Anyone recommend a graphics card to support the classic V12 configuration? The Ferrari of monitors - www.autoblog.com
PDF death match?
This is an old article (July 2005) which, for some reason, just showed up in my “Most Viewed Articles” RSS feed from Architecture Magazine . It’s one of those silly “we’re better than you, no you’re not…” articles but still worth a read if you haven’t seen
Music
Root out the Rootkit - SonyBMG DRM Customer Survival Kit
Freedom to Tinker have posted a SonyBMG DRM Customer Survival Kit. Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » SonyBMG DRM Customer Survival Kit
Automobile
Fiat & Ferrari Design changes
Frank Stephenson moves from Ferrari to head the Fiat, Lancia and Light Commercial Vehicle styling center. Donato Coco, ex Citroen, takes over at Ferrari! Ferrari hires new Chief Designer - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com Frank Stephenson to move to Fiat - www.cardesignnews.com Donato Coco announced as new
ActiveWords
Local Amazon Searching with ActiveWords
Buzz shared an ActiveWords script for searching Amazon.com in his post Searching in Context. Although I’m in New Zealand I often buy from Amazon U.K. rather than Amazon.com. The crazy English comedies I like, especially one about a local shop, don’t make it to the
Music
SonicStage 3.3 - An improvement, at least it installs and works!
Given the enormous trouble I’ve had upgrading Sony’s SonicStage in the past I was rather nervous when an email arrived suggesting an upgrade to SonicStage 3.3. Given all the justifiably bad press Sony have had recently with the whole rootkit thing I wondered what sort of havoc