Archive: March 2007

15 posts

Web on the piste

by kai on 12/03/2007

Just got the official word that the Web on the Piste conference in Queenstown goes ahead and really is going to happen in August 2007. The guys from Straker and Gruden have been pushing and organizing the whole thing, awesome stuff! You might not see the benefits right now while reading this post, but let me tell you that Queenstown (on New Zealands South Island) is known as "Adventure Capital"…

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Flying!

by kai on 03/03/2007

Wow, I had my first flying lesson today. Well, "lesson" is a bit too much maybe. I'm flying with FS 2004 for a few years now and enjoy the aviation world in general very much. I've always wanted to get a bit more of closer experience but never got round to. My wife Diane gave me a voucher for an introductory flying lesson in last year's xmas calendar (Depending where you live, you might (not)…

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Rant: Unabled to send protected object

by kai on 02/03/2007

Sorry guys, this is going to be a rant about silly digital content protection behaviours on mobile devices. I one of the earlier post of this year, I've talked about the Nokia n93 - my new splendid mobile. I still love that phone, so the rant is not about the phone itself, it's more about the funny behaviour of a whole industry - as similar things happen with Motorola phones as well (just to name…

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I MIGHT be there...

by kai on 01/03/2007

I missed last year's Soccer World Cup in Germany and I could bite my arse for doing so. But to be fair, it's hard to get all this stuff done and organised when you've just moved to the other end of the world etc. But - this is not going to happen again - in 2008 the UEFA EURO 2008 is going to take place in Switzerland and Austria. Well, the world's best soccer teams are from Europe anyways, so…

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Launching NZFXUG - New Zealand Flex User Group

by kai on 01/03/2007

drumsticks... We're proud to present the New Zealand Flex User Group. Our site has gone live just right now - there's not a lot content but that will change during the next few days. This User Group was founded by Campbell Anderson, Ross Phillips and myself and it should become the first point of contact for Flex developers in NZ. We're going to hold regular meetings in Wellington and Auckland…

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