Here’s an idea: Online layby

I’m sitting in the Christchurch airport waiting on a flight delayed over an hour…thankfully AirNZ did the right thing and gave us Lounge passes, so I’m chillaxing with a Stella and free WiFi.
Browsing a list of expiring domains I noticed that layby.co.nz was coming up and it occured that there could be a business in [...]

Trade Me + Facebook = TradeBook

Sometime early May this year Trade Me opened up a little and made available XML feeds for auction listings by user. Not long after that Facebook launched their developer platform, and since then I’ve been thinking about putting the two together.
I finally got around to getting it done with help from Allen who designed a [...]

Buy a link to Surfarama

That’s right, you can now buy links to Surfarama.com for just $100 a piece.
For $100 I will send you the ‘HTML’ code to put on your webpage so that people looking at your webpage (aka ‘web surfers’) will be able to ‘click’ on the link and automatically be routed via the internet to this website. [...]

Can you be too careful?

I’ve been conscious recently that I quite often tell Flynn to “be careful mate”, and I am worried that I might be being overly protective and that it will have some lasting impression on him.
I don’t think I grew up overly protected. My brothers and I all smashed our front teeth doing one stunt or other. Adam was [...]

iTunes is a terrible podcast client

I am I the only one who thinks iTunes really bites as a client for subscribing to podcasts? With all my commuting these days I am getting through more than a few podcasts and audio books, and I have reached the conclusion that iTunes is really bad as a podcasting client.
Dropped downloads, missed episodes, error [...]

Training with the stars

It has to be said that I’ve never been much into exercising for exercisings sake. I’d much rather sweat it out on my bike at Woodhill or get some schralping in on the mountain.
That said, a child, a busy day job, and assorted personal projects make it harder to get out there like I used [...]