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by Nigel Ball...

It's good to be a Kiwi!

For the last couple decades the America’s Cup competition has (generally) made good to be a Kiwi.

Even though I haven’t lived in NZ since I was a young boy, I have resolutely held on to my Kiwi citizenship (and passport). During the cold war I argued that this was actually a measure of self […]

For a few years now I have used an Open Source software product called SiteBar to store all of my bookmarks. Last week I set up a new hosted service based on SiteBar called MyEasyLinks

New accounts on MyEasyLinks are FREE and an account will let you store all of your bookmarks on the MyEasyLinks server […]

Image editing on-line

Working with another new client last week lead, once again to a request for an easy way to edit photos ready for use in a shopping application.

One solution is to us Picnik an online photo editor which is quick, easy to use and with just enough features to do the job without the mass […]

PHP 4.4.5 segfault fix

Quick tip for those of us unfortunate enough to have to deal with “legacy” php code (Ruby is Sooo much easier!).

One of my ISPs recently upgraded the PHP installation to 4.4.5 and suddenly my php application stopped. Nothing in the error log, no output to the browser.

I discovered that an attempt to session_register an unitialised […]

I'm in MySpace

Earlier this month I took a look at MySpace and created my own MySpace

Tonight, I was taking a look at what was there and discovered that I can post to a blog in myspace

I’ve posted a couple of thoughts sparked by that browsing including one that concludes…

I am still at a loss to understand how […]

Return-Path for ActionMailer

Having spent several hours trying to get this to work, thought I’d share it with the world!

The Goal

When sending emails from an automated service like RSS:Forward it is common to want the return-path and the reply-to headers to be different.

This lets the receiver of the email reply to the author of the email while […]

Free Hugs

Came across this on you tube today. I am so much a “Feel Good’ movie junkie!

YouTube is Google’s newest plaything!

Speed Reading

I have always believed that the ability to speed read is critical to success … the importance of keeping up-to-date with emerging thoughts and trends can never be understated.

During my time as a student, I trained myself to speed read, and recall that, with a young brain, I could read at well over 1,000 words […]

fter much development, review and some false starts, a new web site has been launched with my assistance. It is for the Australia Tibet Council a not-for-profit organisation campaigning for a Free Tibet.

The site covers an interesting range of services for its readership, and for members of the organisation…

an information portal a place to purchace Tibet […]

I am constantly amazed at the difficulty I have convincing clients/friends and others that connecting a PC to the internet is one of the most dangerous modern activities.

It seems that the most prevalent attitude is yes, but it won’t happen to me.

Well, the truth of the matter is it can, it will … and it […]

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