Monthly Archives: March 2011

Tell teachers about Khan academy

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

I forget sometimes that the sites I read and the stories I follow are not entirely mainstream. Thus while there is a huge group of people that already know about The Khan Academy, there are even more people that don’t. … Continue reading →

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Could NZ cope?

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

DDos Attacks, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. The largest denial of service attack year peaked at 100 Gbit/s. That’s more than the bandwidth usage out of NZ. Chart Source: Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report 2010, Arbor Networks.

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The trains don’t arrive

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

Auckland’s train operator Veolia provides their performance statistics – which is a good thing. The problem is that actual figures themselves, which show just how poor the service actually is: The first column is how often trains are 5 minutes … Continue reading →

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FlowerPower donates $5050 to Earthquake Fund

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

PowerKiwi’s FlowerPower has donated $5050 to the Government’s Christchurch Earthquake fund. Like everyone we were shocked and dismayed at the devastation and loss, firstly to individuals and families and secondly to businesses and buildings in Canterbury. We are also humbled … Continue reading →

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Meeting the high resolution challenge

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

(Also posted on Pacific Fibre’s blog) The iPhone retina display is awesome – not quite perfect, but incredibly high resolution that you can look at for a long time. It has 326 pixels per inch, and 0.614 total megapixels. That’s … Continue reading →

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Family First Survey – the missing questions

Posted on March 6, 2011 by

You may or may not have seen the 2011 Family First survey (link borked) on Family Issues. It seems that not all of the answers were published, and I received the following from unnamed sources. If you come across any … Continue reading →

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Let’s ignore ie6 already

Posted on March 5, 2011 by

<UPDATE – I’ve created a page on the tab above – if you send me information then I’ll add to the HALL OF SHAME> Microsoft’s new ie6 countdown site records ie6 usage of just 3.1% in New Zealand. The overall … Continue reading →

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