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Wow, the new stuff Google has been coming out with, from an interaction standpoint, is really quite excellent. Google Finance is really in that category. It makes use of Flash (obviously, generated on the fly) to show the graph of the company you are looking at (for example, Quest Software, where I work), as well as a time graph, which …

Another test. It’s the fotter I’m looking at.

Thats the headline in Stuff / Dominion Post this morning: A shamed David Parker has quit as attorney-general and is facing calls to step down from his other portfolios amid claims that he filed false company returns. But Prime Minister Helen Clark is standing by her minister’s judgment that the offence was not serious enough to give up his $216,000-a-year …

Leonie pointed me recently at a new site called “Brownie Points“. It’s a local NZ site, which specialises in gifts. You can select what situation you want – thank you, romantic etc – and the gender and age of the person (teen etc). The main kicker is, the gifts are not the usual crap – there are things like a …

Mike Zintel, (one of the) PM of Compact Framework, posted this: I also know that working with the Xbox team has been among the most enjoyable and productive cross group work that I’ve done. I know that my team and the XNA team within Xbox, have been burning the midnight oil to allow us to demonstrate the feasibility of games …

Some of the stuff on Flickr is just amazing. I found this totally by accident: Autowitch – The City Beneath This really appeals to both the type of photo I WANT to take, and the type I like to look at. Fairly dark, usually of decayed subject matter (rusted etc), and underground, but with a sense of going somewhere. Which is also why I …