Mike discovers there's a new CHEESE SHOP in Petone

Pamela the midwife has a blog post of thoughts and info on teenage pregnancy in New Zealand.

Mark Osbourne mentions Uruguay gave a laptop to every single child.

Vampire wannabies can buy bags of tasty blood fit for human consumption.

There's a Save Maranui fundraiser involving speedos.

Open office is spreading quickly all over Belgium according to The Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations.

Someone invented a Robot that loads and unloads the dishwasher

Rachel Alpine talks about need for plain language and official information

Live scribe, the makers of that shiny gadget pen i use alot are opening an app store of applications that run on the pen.

so - I got the repositories working on this linux tablet.

repositories are where free (and non-free) software lives.
I run an application on the nokia 770, it retrieves the list of
available applications, i choose a few, and they are installed.

the killer piece of the nokia 770 is - all the apps are free. not once
do i see a nag screen, a trial dialog, i don't need to find my credit
card number. It's all there all the time and free.

it's apt-get in ya pocket.

(non-free just means it's not opensource, but you don't need to pay for it)

There's Opera (non-free). Mozilla firefox come with it outta the box
and full blown gmail works flawlessly.

The Nokia (non-free) media stream's got a nice UI for managing music -
- think itunes, but less ugly.

There's a PIM suite, which is really a port of evolution.

There's Gaim instant messenger with plugins for every network.

There's voip, and there's google talk (the nokia has a microphone, unlike my TX)

there gnome office suite is there too, to edit all the standard open
office documents as well as the microsoft ones, pdfs, rtfs and
probably more.

the best bit is the multi tasking. After living with palm so long,
it's revolutionary to be letting mozilla download something in the
background, while my RSS feeds are also refreshing, my email imap is
syncing, and i'm reading a pdf.

bad points::
I can't initially find how to set bluetooth discoverable etc - - it
must be hidden somewhere.

the charger holes on the bottom, so i can't charge while i'ts sitting
in the palm universal keyboard.