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I have been having trouble using the Metlink web site for public transport in the Wellington region, and would like to know if you have the same problems. I have spoken to the Regional Council (who run the site) and the developers, and have been told that I must have an unusual phone because it works fine with their test devices.
 
Even if you're not in Wellington, or don't use public transport, I'd appreciate your help doing some tests from your mobile phone, and filling out a survey as you go. I'll regularly update this post with the survey results once a few people have done it.
 
Click here for instructions and the survey.
 
NOTE: I am in no way affiliated with the Greater Wellington Regional Council or their web site developers. I am doing this in the hope that the GWRC will eventually listen and fix their site to make it usable. Or prove myself wrong. Either way.

Over Easter weekend, John McAllistar beat Scott Safran's 27 year old Asteroids high score, racking up 41,336,440 points over 3 days. John is already the world record holder for Asteroids Deluxe according to Twin Galaxies. John's Asteroids high score has not yet been verified by Twin Galaxies.
 
 
 
 
 
Source: Wired

Meh.

Ars Technica are reporting that the full ACTA text has been leaked. Just in time for the ACTA discussions in New Zealand in April. I have no time to look into this right now, so I may post an update later.

Apparently today is Ada Lovelace Day. I guess this makes it an ideal time to remember some of the women who have made enormous contributions to the IT industry.

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper immediately springs to mind as inventor of the compiler and the COBOL programming language. Rear Admiral Hopper was one of the original programmer of the Harvard Mark I in 1944. She continued contributing to the industry until her death in 1992 at the age of 85.

Another of my heroines of the computing era is Jeri Ellsworth a young and brilliant hardware hacker who created, amongst other things, the C-One reconfigurable computer and the C64 DTV TV Game. LifeHacker recently ran a series which included Jeri Ellsworth as "MacGyver of the day". Go read it and be amazed.