http://matthew.peach.net.nz Lost for words Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:56:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the early hours of Friday, September 26th, 2008, years of ambition and months of hard work personified itself in an unorthodox manner... I'd like to introduce you to Mighty Ape: Mighty Ape is our new online shopping site, built from the ground-up to a be complete replacement for Gameplanet Store, ... http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/10/06/weve-evolved-mighty-ape-launched/ Check it. http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/09/23/were-evolving/ The beta version of Google Chrome became available this morning, and it's definitely worth trying out. It's not quite good enough to pull me entirely from Firefox yet, but it definitely has enormous potential. For now I'll be using it for casual browsing whilst staying with Firefox for work. Our new ... http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/09/03/try-google-chrome/ It's that time of year again, and the Cancer Society of New Zealand is actively collecting money to fund cancer research into cancer causes and treatments, providing support to people affected by cancer and other initiatives such as public awareness programmes. More information is available at the Daffodil Day web site. Chances ... http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/08/30/make-a-donation-for-daffodil-day/ Keeping on the Olympics theme, Usain Bolt absolutely set the standard in the 100m final early on Sunday morning NZ time. It shouldn't be possible to dominate an event that lasts approximately 10 seconds, but Bolt did just that. I think this picture sums it up nicely: When running an Olympic 100m ... http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/08/18/usain-bolt-fastest-man-alive/ I don't know if this is entirely accurate, but the New York Post has published an article outlining American golden boy Michael Phelp's diet, which apparently consists of 12,000 calories per day made up largely of foods that most people would consider to be "bad for you". Here's the breakdown ... http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/08/16/phelps-diet/ I bought an iPhone a couple of weeks ago. Turns out you can get them working on Prepay after all (even though Vodafone won't tell you that), and with a new casual data rate of $1 for up to 10MB of data on any given day, I couldn't resist. The thing is ... http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/08/07/ok-so-i-lied/ It's nice to see a restaurant web site with a sense of humour instead of the usual cookie-cutter stuff you find with most non-web businesses that try to establish an online presence. Image taken from Monsoon Poon. (Click to enlarge) The rest of the site very much keeps the theme alive. http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/07/10/ban-for-racism/ There has been a pretty dramatic outcry following Vodafone's iPhone announcement yesterday, and the Vodafone-bashing appears to be becoming a bit of a bandwagon with people suggesting protests, boycotts and so on. I was too disappointed with the plans, not because comparitively they are genuine "rip offs", but because there is ... http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/07/09/more-on-the-iphone-announcement/ The sheer hotness-factor of Apple's iPhone is enough to build up a certain amount of hype for the device's Friday launch on its own, but Vodafone too has played its part over the last week, teasing the public with promises of "exciting iPhone 3G plans" and going on to say ... http://matthew.peach.net.nz/2008/07/08/apple-announces-nz-iphone-pricing/