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Oh the cuteness. This web feed shows a bunch of Shiba Inu puppies at sleep & play.
Live Broadcasting by Ustream
Here are some more animal cams for you…

Two interesting bits of news from Google today. The first is adsense for games which allows game developers to place Google ads inside games.
Only flash games are currently supported and there are some fairly hefty entry requirements for early adopters:

Game plays: Minimum 500,000 per day
Game types: Web-based Flash only
Integration: Must be technically capable of SDK [...]

It’s Googles 10th birthday and they have put together a neat little timeline showing major milestones during their history.
I was particularly impressed with how their home page has evolved over the last 10 years, nice and simple all the time with just minor tweaks and content changes along the way, all hiding more and more [...]

One of the things that bugs me most about NZ politics is that there isn’t a political party that I actually like.
Every election I basically sift through all the FUD to try and identify the parties that seems less likely to screw things up. I then cast my votes and hope that for the next [...]

Found this very nice “design” site called NOTCOT.org. Its tag line is ideas+aesthetics+amusement and its interesting picture oriented layout and content certainly does just that.
It covers art, architecture, websites, advertising and the like, I always seem to be able to find something of interest here.
For example today’s links includes:
Pi10k - This experiment attempts to convert [...]

Grabaseat now has an official blog.
The intro text reads:
“Welcome to the official grabaseat blog. Here you will find behind-the-scenes information and great ‘insider’ tips for grabaseat.”
Should be interesting to see what info lands up there. Check it out at http://grabaseatnz.blogspot.com/

I’m forever running out of books to read and never quite make it to the library so my interest was piqued when my friend Tim told me about a website you could download free sci-fi from.
I was thrilled when I visited the site and found that the books were from authors I knew because [...]

So I have a new site up and running. Its called whatistheinternet.info
The site is an easy to use introduction to what the Internet is and how it works. It will have a strong focus on security and safe surfing as well.
Currently its very basic but check it out anyway.

This is pretty cool. For the last 3 years I’ve been working as the architect with the Innovations and Ventures department at Air New Zealand.
Yesterday we found out that three of our projects are finalists in the TUANZ Business Internet Awards for 2007 !
The projects are:
Grabaseat (Advertising & Marketing category)
For those of you who [...]

Updated: I’ve corrected the link and the 3D maps seems to have disappeared.
Someone just sent me a link to an Auckland traffic site. It shows a nice 3D map of the region and highlights the traffic state on the main routes.
If you click on the little “C” icons you also get an up-to-date webcam [...]