Arun Stephens

Hello. I am at the airport. I am actually on the last flight out of Auckland tonight, to Singapore. What have I observed? Well, British people tend to look at other travellers’ passports and then strike up conversations with fellow countrymen. They don’t just talk to random New Zealanders. You kind of expect that sort of fellowship amongst New Zealanders travelling, because there are so few of us. What else have I observed? Airlines are now pretty strict when Read post »

I host my some of email using Gmail with a custom domain. I have two domains with Gmail. I just noticed that for the domain that ends in .co.nz, the Trash is called the Bin, but for the .com one, it’s still Trash. It looks like Google is internationalising Gmail. I’m not sure how long it’s been like this. I just checked the date format and that too has changed to the proper (dd/mm/yyyy) Read post »

It’s obviously a slow news day again, because the Herald has written an article about being careful when posting things on social networking sites if you’re searching for work. I’ve seen articles like this before. It’s common sense, really. Don’t put anything online that you don’t want others to see. Even if it’s in an ostensibly private area of one of those sites, it’s still on someone else’s computer, and there’ Read post »

I have 197 friends on Facebook. I don’t think I have 197 friends in real life. When I first signed up to Facebook in the northern autumn of 2006, I had less than 10 friends. That was when I was in France, and most of the people I knew there were either still students (the poms) or had just finished university (the yanks). And Facebook was very big at universities in those two countries. (Back in New Zealand, however, Read post »

Wow. I must be semi-important. Someone wrote a spam comment about credit cards on a seemingly unrelated post. How exciting. I’ve deleted it though. In other news, Flickr and WordPress seemed to have trouble communicating with each other. I noticed the same problem with Windows Live Writer. The client always reports an unknown error, and suggests I retry. So I usually do, and then the same article is posted twice. I suspect it’s not WordPress’s fault at Read post »