After a long and drawn out saga I finally have my Flickr account back. I didn’t think losing access to my account had bothered me that much, but when I was finally able to log into my account again I was completely elated 
In celebration I have uploaded a bunch of photos taken while Sarah and I were on honey moon, and I am looking forward to uploading a lot more in future! Click on any of the images below to see a larger version, or you can see my full Flickr photostream here.
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I finally got around to trying the WordPress blogging application for the iPhone. I am using it to write this post, and I have to say that I’m really impressed. If you check out their website however you’ll see that version 1.2 of this app will be coming out soon, and that looks even better (more…)
Earlier this week I blogged about the Internet Blackout Week NZ protest against a controversial new copyright law which was about to come into effect in New Zealand. You can find the background to this post there.
The law has been put on hold! Earlier this afternoon Prime Minister John Key announced that the controversial net Copyright Amendment Act is to be delayed until March 27th. During this delay work will be done to try and draft a voluntary code of practice which addresses the concerns of the public. If by then a suitable solution cannot be found, then the law will be suspended. If the law is implemented, then there will be a review held after six months to see how it is working out. (more…)
I have always been a fan of flickr. So many aspects of their site just work so well. In particular, the way in which you can edit the title or description of any photo you own inline really blew me away the first time I saw it. Recently however, I have been having some significant issues with them. Although to be fair, it’s not the fault of the guys working at flickr at all.
As background to my tale of woe, you need to know that I first got my flickr account more than three years ago and registered my account using a gmail email address. Some time later, flickr was purchased by Yahoo and their site changed to use Yahoo IDs for authentication. Despite this, my original flickr login continued to work fine. (more…)
If you ever decide to upgrade the theme on your WordPress blog, don’t download any themes from www.templatesbrowser.com/wordpress-themes/. I made this mistake yesterday when I downloaded this theme (Vistered Little by Windy Road) from them.
After installing the theme I noticed that suddenly there was a link in my ‘Site Meta’ section to ‘Casino-online’. I had never seen that before, and I have no desire to promote online gambling on my site, so I immediately went into my admin panel to remove it. (more…)
I’m joining the protest against the Copyright Amendment Act which is coming into effect in New Zealand at the end of February. Specifically I am concerned about ‘Section 92A’. Long story short, this section says that ISP’s in NZ must have a system in place where by a user will be disconnected after three accusations of copyright infringement by a copyright holder. (more…)
