I’m not 100% sure about Windflow’s two blade turbine design – I have no reason to say that other than gut feel and aesthetics. It is pleasing however to see that Windflow has signed a deal to sell some…
This afternoon I took part in a meeting hosted by Landcare Research. Landcare has recently won funding from FRST for the next few years to investigate qualitative and quantitative methods in water resource governance. Down here in Canterbury especially…
Google will now be bundling Star Office along with it’s suite of productivity tools. This is really interesting. Google is the home of apps residing in the clouds, indeed Google docs is touted as an alternative to MS Office…
As expected, Meridian announced today that they are going ahead with their windfarm at Makara near Wellington. After going through a long and arduous consent process to get where they are today, one would have been shocked with any…
A new study has found that 96% of online US teenagers are users of social networking sites. 96%! So for anyone still left wondering if social networking sites have any relevancy for businesses today the answer is if you…
I live in Waipara, North Canterbury, a bustling hive of Viticulture, Tourism, Farming and infrastructure projects. I’m pretty involved with what goes on up there – I’m a trustee of the North Canterbury Economic Development Agency, Chair of the…
A post over here regarding the anxiety that the US Feds have about the security or otherwise of SaaS. Now I know that most SaaS players are not targeting this market, but more and more, security will become (and…
I work with some chaps who espouse the benefits and virtues of open source software. Me I just use what fulfils my needs… Anyway – until recently I’d been a user of Mozilla Thunderbird as an email client –…
Andrew posted over here about the importance of a well thought out scope document for software product development. I agree with Andrew but believe that all of what he said can be summed up readily in the concept of…