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NBC and Time Warner inform Apple they'll be sticking to Flash, thank you very much
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/nbc-and-time-warner-inform-apple-they...

Christmas greeting cards, only white people allowed on them - Tale from a greeting card designer.
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2010/05/find-ways-to-counter-raci...

How to Get Your Camera Back When You Lose It
Humourous photos involved
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalPhotographySchool/~3/DJwEqupLwr0/h...

AT LAST I can buy a poster of the most influential twitterers!
http://jwz.livejournal.com/1239804.html

Google Analytics opt-out
Official plugin if you don't want to be tracked.
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/25/google_a...

thanks to the ninjas who migrated geekspeakr.com from Drupal5 to Drupal 6, and to a happier server during LCA2010

quote from Liz Henry, who really enjoyed the hackfest:

It was like Christmas – I hung out with kick ass open source people all day long, heard great talks, gave a talk and asked for more coding and development with other women, and then got to do that very thing with people I greatly admire!

and thanks to Catalyst for the use of their boardroom and intarwebs.

Imagine if NZ Post was required to keep a photocopy of every thing you send in the post, unsealing the evelope to do so - including all your credit card statements, confidential contracts, love letters, photos of your kids sent to their grandma. Imagine what a stamp will cost under this law?

All this would need to be saved just in case you get accused of copyright infringement by post - and if you are accused, your local postman is to be the judge of your guilt.

If you are accused, and the postman can't work out if you're guilty or not, they will take the safer path and "disconnect you". You are now denied from sending or receiving any mail.

Lets imagine you are guilty -- you posted a video of your 2 year old daughter dancing at her birthday party, and in the background there's some music by the wiggles - you infinged copyright both by recording this moment and by sharing it with their grandparents.

You are denied use of the post. Now you can no longer receive you bank statement, no more photos sent to grandma, no christmas greetings from your sister in Ireland, and no more love letters.

Imagine it's 1990 and Post is how everyone sends these things.

You're going to struggle to file a tax return, government departments can't send you information, you won't get that invite to speak at a conference.

Then imagine it's today - and it's not the Post, but your ISP -- and now you have the situation in New Zealand.

Logitech V450 Nano - RedSource: www.dse.co.nzTo provide more comfort and productivity for on-the-go professionals, the Logitech V450 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks offers laser precision, 12-month battery life, and the Plug-and-Forget Nano-receiver.    Only one hundreds dollars! i bought one of these 4 weeks ago, and it cost $45. Retailers bring prices _WAY_ up for christmas.

the answer? I reckon buy more local craft goods instead of shiny red mice.    

I asked the question:
what do we think of forcing people to take their annual leave at christmas time, instead of at their prefered time?

Some responses from New Zealanders:

Looking for christmas gifts? Check out OXFAM New Zealand's "OXFAM Unwrapped"

gift a duck, a goat, a coffee plant to your friends and family, and OXFAM will send it to someone in need of such an item on their behalf

e.g. buy a shade grown environmental sustainable coffee plants Price: $20

i'm really getting hopeful for a LG Chocolate handsethttp://chocolate.lgmobile.com/unfotunately, looks like it won't be out in time for me to find it under the christmas tree.

listening to Various Artists - A Winter's Night: The Best of Nettwerk Christmas

half the songs are christmas songs

the other half are just winter songs - they're as christmassy as jingle bells..

you ever noticed that christmas isn't mentioned once in jingle bells? it's just about winter - and it aint gonne be winter here for another 7 months.

foudn instructions here:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LastFMLog

first enable logging in GeneralPreferences -> Playback -> Last.fm logging.

then grab the perl script here:
http://www.misticriver.net/photos/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=22288&pos=0

I keep i on my ipod, so every now and then i run it any upload all the tracks i've played on there.

$ ./rockscrobbler.pl -u taniwha -p password -f /media/sde2/.scrobbler.log -t 13 -v