With so many entrepreneurs and start-ups going gung-ho developing Apps for this, that and the other. And with gazillions of bits of web content created every hour or is it now every minute. You’d think I’d be able to find an up-to-date and useful list of meeting venues in Wellington. It seems every single time [...]
For a while now I’ve been living with some glitches in my open source word processing programme. That all changed on Wednesday when frustration drove me to the other side. NeoOffice is a version of the popular OpenOffice designed for Mac OS X. It has integrated dozens of native Mac features and provides most of the [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve spent some time under the hood of WordPress. I’m making some final adjustments to the updated theme on my blog. As I dig deeper, the more convinced I become about how suitable WordPress web publishing software is for running not just blogs but websites too. The WordPress platform is [...]
Lately I’ve noticed a few businesses pushing new fangled IT products and services to the community and voluntary sector. The most prominent of these is cloud-based computing. It’s promoted as being an ideal match for organisations. The sales pitches are pretty extravagant, offering miracles on heaven and earth: it won’t break down, it’s always open, [...]
Everybody I talk with this month will sooner or later hear about FebFast. And you, dear reader, are no exception. This month I’ve joined over 1,000 people to raise funds for four organisations helping reduce alcohol and other drug related harms amongst young people. Like everyone else, I’m not drinking alcohol for the month. At [...]
Over the years I’ve saved a fair few full length ebooks. It’s been easy to hit download, then find a place to save them. While they’re not exactly gathering dust, most of them are sitting around unread. This all changed in the last few days. On Saturday I noticed an advert for a book released [...]
Conservation scientists are trying to ensure mala or the rufous hare-wallaby as it is known to it’s friends, does not become extinct (pictured right). The small mammal, whose habitat once included the desert of Australia’s dry centre, is the focus of a recovery effort by the Australasia Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG). Focusing on the [...]
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