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I already tweeted & blogged my humiliation :( - Gavin Knight

a useful tool given the range of file formats it can generate but if all you want is image files from your powerpoint then ppt does this natively as one of the 'save as' options - Gavin Knight

I used Notes for over a year in 2000/1 and it drove me mad. Nothing was intuitive nor followed accepted user interface conventions. I could tell it was a powerful system, but there seemed to be no way to easily unlock that power. The organisation I worked for just dumped it on me and my 100,000+ colleagues and all it became was a clunky poor email system. I am watching your Notes/eProductivity journey with close interest and am increasingly tempted to switch! Of course it is easier to do so now that I control my own technology choices. Why have IBM done such a poor system of marketing this tool? It seems a template like eProductivity is ‘all’ it takes so why don’t IBM do it out of the box? - Gavin Knight

brilliant insight into how hosting the rugby world cup can be NZ's chance to make the world a better place "Every four years a few of them can qualify for the World Cup. They have no hope of making it past the pools but that is enough. For a month they can play in the big time and maybe even give one of the top teams a fright. That is the nirvana they know but it is nothing to what they could experience in New Zealand if we do it right" - Gavin Knight

I used to use this great service regularly when I was tramping regularly especially when taking teenagers into the outdoors. Very very useful. - Gavin Knight

"The truth is, you take away our moodiness and you take away a part of us. We live on moody land and if we understood that better we might understand why we are not Australians or Americans and just get on with it." - Gavin Knight

Mike's running a similar strategy. Blogging at http://gavinknight.com is now only part of my online writing and sharing. You'll also find me commenting multiple times per day at Twitter (http://twitter.com/gavinknight) and you can find my full online feed (blog, twitter, photos, shared items from my rss reader, etc) at Friendfeed (http://friendfeed.com/gavinkn...). - Gavin Knight

some good insights from Vaughan, although he has a specific bias toward MediaShout which he sells, and a general bias against Microsoft! Paul, my pastor, adds some useful insights in a comment - Gavin Knight

well said, a good summary of what has gone on to date with #blackout and some strategies for all to follow to close it to everyone's satisfaction - Gavin Knight

this is why S92A is not ready for prime time. the recording industry wants to be judge, jury and executioner. and they don't even represent all copyright holders (they don't represent me for example). and, the TCF don't represent all ISPs - eg I oculd be classed an ISP as I provide my employees with an internet connection, and also my family and visitors to my home. so a code of conduct agreed between TCF and recording industry, which is extremely unlikely as explained in this article, does not cover everyone anyway - Gavin Knight

makes sense. clear immigration at point of departure rather than arrival. when you're departing you're happy to spend time doing customs etc processing, but when you arrive you just want to get out of the airport and off to your destination. not sure about losing duty free rights though! - Gavin Knight

good on them, but why couldn't they send Anne (or Charles) to Sir Edmund Hillary's funeral? - Gavin Knight

agree, this would be a workable compromise, but S92A should be delayed long enough to allow it - Gavin Knight

brilliant quote "[our] tax base resembles an iceberg heading towards the equator" - Gavin Knight

they wouldn't be the first NZ government department to blow out the budget on an OS upgrade, usually because their scoping doesn't include a full allowance for flow on costs like upgrades rewrites or replacements for applications that won't run on the new OS - not because of the OS itself but because the IT guys use an OS upgrade as an excuse to lock evetything down - Gavin Knight

this article raises some valid questions, but largely stops there ... good thought provoker though - Gavin Knight

seems to me this is nothing more than a membership drive for the NZCS, like when the teacher unions call for lower student:teacher ratios - Gavin Knight

Like is def. the wrong word here. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Google's response: http://tinyurl.com/6ylrmp - Chris Brogan

I have had and used 40 or 50 PCs of various laptop and desktop flavours and never had a hard disk fail -- is this an apple phenomenon or have I just been lucky? - Brian Sullivan

for backup check out jungle disk, my review at http://www.gavinknight.com/2008... - Gavin Knight

I've used Google Analytics on www.gavinknight.com for a few months now and it's really starting to come into its own now it has some longevity data to analyse. An excellent tool. - Gavin Knight

awesome photo - Gavin Knight

this is excellent, my response at http://is.gd/YxB - Gavin Knight

brilliant - Gavin Knight

this is a fairly comprehensive and accurate comparison of Gmail and Outlook, although it is a bit light on the option of combining them by accessing your Gmail from within Outlook using IMAP - Gavin Knight

should make for good reading - Gavin Knight

my nephews would love this - Gavin Knight

unfortunately it would seem it is now a very very long time since Helen Clark made any pretence of honesty and integrity - Gavin Knight

Labour's arrogance is literally going to bring our cities to a stand-still this Friday - Gavin Knight

a good side, williams should play it fit, very good loosies, saw cowan the other day on a place he looked sheepish - Gavin Knight

zimbabwe needs our prayers more than ever - Gavin Knight