My Email Set Up

Email is important to me.  Running a small business that relies on contact with people around the world, I can’t afford to trust my email to a cheap solution, but I also don’t have a money tree in the back yard to pay for a Rolls Royce managed solution.

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We Need Mobile Power

Today I was reading over an article about the new quad-core mobile phones starting to hit the market.

JD   #21   11:11 am Apr 05 2012

Quad core is a bit overkill,..

I still can’t decide if the comments made by many users were alarming, amusing  or just a very sad demonstration of our current state of ignorance?

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@DonGouldNZ was don@bowenvale.co.nz – Twitter?

You’ve been able to get to me via don@bowenvale.co.nz for almost two decades at a cost, to me.

Over the past month I’ve followed the dotKiwi debate on the Internet New Zealand mailing list.

Today I got my latest bill from my domain registrant for my domain name.

As I was watching American Idol on the TV, while blogging about something else, I noted with interest that the singers all have simple @twitter addresses on the screen.

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Why New Zealand Broadband is So Slow and So Expensive

“Process”