Some people get annoyed at people asking various random, annoying questions. This guy seriously did.
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People ask too many dumb questions on your auction?
Published January 25, 2008 humour , Internet Leave a CommentTags: auctions, Craigslist
I done broke the Wikipedia
Published January 20, 2008 humour , Internet , news , wiki , wikinews , wikipedia Leave a CommentTags: virus
Well, in an exclusive Wikinews report, it looks like Wikipedia user Scientizzle has “done broke the Wikipedia”.
A couple of Wikipedia users added virus code to a couple of Wikipedia pages to make anti-virus think there was a potential security risk, when in fact everything was fine.
So Scientizzle, an admin, decided to go through and delete the revision history. The only bad thing was one of the affected pages was the sandbox. This basically crashed the server and locked the database and prevented any editing of the encyclopaedia for around half an hour.
Wikinews has the frankly amusing article in its entire exclusive state online.
10 gigabit Internet please?
Published January 17, 2008 Internet , news 2 CommentsTags: australia, gigabit Internet, united states, University of California San Deigo, University of Melbourne
Australia and the United States were connected together at a whopping 1 gigbit per second Internet speed. The University of Melbourne, Australia and the University of California San Deigo, America were able to communicate together in real time, as if they were standing together in the same room.
The speed they were able to attain was around 250 times greater than the average broadband speed in Melbourne.
If this technology is actually available, then why aren’t Governments queuing to deliver this to every household in their country? Sure, it will cost a lot, but super fast Internet can increase a country’s economy. Companies will be able to operate straight out of, say New Zealand, and trade with other countries like America. BRING IT ON!
The greatest New Zealander of all has died
Published January 11, 2008 news Leave a CommentTags: Nepal, new zealand, Sir Edmund Hillary
I take a break from my regular topic of stories to inform the world that the greatest New Zealander of all time has died aged 88.
Sir Edmund Hillary is mostly remembered for his amazing feat along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of being the first people in the world to be atop the tallest peak in the world, Mount Everest.
Not only did he do this, but his other work is what he should be remembered for. He often visited Nepal to help build schools, hospitals, and plenty, plenty more. He was even named as an honorary citizen of Nepal in 2003 for the amount of humanitarian work he did for the people.
Sir Hillary will surely be missed and mourned by many New Zealanders, young or old.
Rest in peace Ed.
Bill Gates’ last day at the office
Published January 10, 2008 humour , Microsoft , videos Leave a CommentTags: Bill Gates
An extremely funny video has been made by Microsoft (no, really!) featuring Bill Gates’ and detailing his “last day at the office”. Link to the video below.
Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip
File sharing could be legal in Canada
Published January 7, 2008 Internet , news , social 1 CommentTags: Canada, file sharing
A plan introduced to end the illegal use of file sharing programs in Canada by the Songwriters Association of Canada has been welcomed by some, shot down by others. The plan will set an annual fee of around C$60 for unlimited and legal access to file sharing portals.
The C$5 monthly fee would be automatically added to the bill of all Canadian Internet users.
Basically you are getting all the songs you want for a very small fee, an idea I think is great. Avril Lavigne, among other artists, agrees.
However, the idea has been slammed by Internet service providers (ISP) because they do not want to be the ones who have to harvest a “tax”.
Wikipedia to fail in 2008?
Published January 3, 2008 Google , news , wiki , wikipedia 2 CommentsTags: New Scientist
New Scientist has come out and listed the five technology companies that are going to fail this year (’08). Number two has been listed as Wikipedia.
Wikipedia was listed as number two because of a ‘fight between Google and Wikimedia’.
Quote:
Wikipedia. The gloves are off in a pointless battle between two of the most successful internet organisations of the last decade: Wikimedia, the parent organisation behind Wikipedia and Google. Last year, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that the organisation was starting work on an open source search engine to which anyone could contribute. The goals, he said, were to make the search algorithm transparent (a clear dig at Google’s notorious secrecy) and to make the results more relevant.
Google responded in December by announcing of Google Knol, [see my Google Knol post here] a barely disguised rip-off of Wikipedia, in which knowledgeable people are encouraged to write articles about their areas of expertise.
Neither organisation really needs to take on the other, so it’s hard to fathom what this is all about. The outcome is easier to call, however.
When it comes to launching online endeavours, we all know that Google gives good web and has numerous successful progeny to prove it. Wikimedia, on other hand, is a one-hit wonder. Its other websites such as Wikinews and Wikibooks are poor cousins to Wikipedia.
So there’s only going to be one winner in this contest, and it ain’t Wikipedia.
See the blog post at New Scientist for the other companies that are supposedly set to fail, which ironically includes Google despite the above reasoning for Wikipedia.
It’s 2008 people, wth are you doing thinking about 2007?
Published January 2, 2008 Internet , journalism , news , social , wikinews Leave a CommentWikinews has compiled a quiz of the year 2007 (the one just been for those inebriated). It only covers topics of high interest that were published on the international news site. So that means the questions have a world wide event slant on them.
Sadly there were no questions on New Zealand events, despite there being two reports on the anti-terror raids around the country late last year.
Take the quiz (link below) to see how well you know about the events of last year, and see if you can beat my score of 32/51!
Quiz: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Dynamic_quiz/quiz/2008/01.
This blog post was also published on my Bebo blog (profile blocked to public access) .
Walking Wikipedia? Air New Zealand needs you!
Published December 23, 2007 news , wikipedia Leave a CommentTags: Air New Zealand, airplane, concierge
The flagship national airline of New Zealand, Air New Zealand, is looking for 90 “walking Wikipedia’s” to deliver in-flight information to passengers.
To be more correct, the free encyclopaedia’s will be concierges that will range from giving passengers advice of must-do activities in New Zealand to explaining the wine list.
The good thing is that Air New Zealand isn’t looking for truly correct information without the possibility of mistake, or people who aren’t easily influenced by other people. That’s why they are after a “one-person Wikipedia.”
Gabriel Pollard 
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