Posts by Juha Saarinen
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I think we should have avatars editable by everyone, like wikis. Wakatars? Wavatars? Wikitars?
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Vista SP1 should be cool, but so will SP3 of XP be.
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Actually, can I take the nice words about PressDisplay/Reader back? It costs money, is slow and doesn't render things as well as the MS/NYTimes Reader. And they want you to pay for that? Nah.
Curse of the Dead Donkey has been placed on it.
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OK, too much multitasking here... I was talking about PressDisplay and PressReader above, not just the latter.
Of course, if I had had an edit button... :)
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Longhorn = not Vista, but the new server OS to replace Windows Server 2003. Gather some people are using it as their desktop OS, just as with WS03 (which is the code-base Vista was keyed off from) as it's nice and fast and secure.
I'm probably seeing more Vista hits in my logs because I write about the OS on the blog. Should've pointed that out...
PressReader looks very nice. I've been using the NYTimes Reader for a while, and like it a lot. Microsoft recently announced that other papers have come out with Reader versions of their own - it's a nice concept that keeps the design of the newspapers in question and makes it easier to read than a traditional webpage (no scrollbars! Huzzah!)
The standalone PressReader app doesn't seem to work too good. It's built on the older MS .NET 2.0 Framework, unlike the NYTimes Reader that uses .NET 3.0. PressReader won't let me read anything without "authorization" but... it hangs on "Please wait until the authorization completes".
Vista is in some ways better than XP but you'd have to try it to appreciate why. It's kind of annoying to see all the "expert opinion" being served up by journos who haven't done that...
Give up on Gravatar. Didn't work last time, doesn't look like it's goer now either. I tried to upload an image, but the webpage hung at the cropping stage. Useful. Mauricio at Geekzone got so fed up with it that he wrote his own Avatar thingy.
There's Explode as well, which may or may not be coaxable into providing Avatars... haven't looked closely at it.
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I like NZ too, a lot in fact. However, I can safely say that the official picture given out by countries legations is at variance with reality.
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" It's wrong to encourage migration by people based on a fantasy that will soon be dashed "
Mate, the NZ High Comms round the world need to be abandoned then, together with the rest of the nation state embassies.
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"most of the immigrants I meet are driving me"
Funny you should say that. I had a Kiwi in my car recently. Complete disaster, as he was navigating.
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Blutters. They need to be transported to deepest Queensland rightaway.
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I'd like to echo Craig's comment about the NZIS: it's not a fun thing to go through, that mill of mindless bureaucracy.
It'd be only fair if those people who put into place were made to go through that same process themselves, so as to understand how it actually works. Failing that, just head over to immigration.govt.nz and check it out.