http://toki.co.nz/blog/ yet another blog BlazeBlogger 1.0.0 http://toki.co.nz/blog/2012/05/28-stump-grindin/ What I got up to over the weekend - the stump didn't stand a chance! Felt a bit sore for a few days afterwards though... Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/blog/2012/03/27-isync-for-lg-arena-km900/ I found my old LG Arena sitting in a drawer when I was doing some cleaning - it's been years since I used this phone! Memories... Not of the phone, but of what I was doing three years ago when I first got it! Anyway, as I used a Mac back then (well, still do really) I discovered that there was an iSync plugin (remember when we had to plug our phones into our computers to sync the calendars and contacts? Wasn't actually that long ago I guess...) for the LG Arena but it took me a lot of searching Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/blog/2012/03/26-not-looking-too-flash/ While checking out what Apple's stock price is doing now since the release of the New iPad (it's doing bloody well!) I thought I'd see how Nokia is doing now a year in to it's new relationship with Microsoft. The last time I checked the share price had dropped just below $10 per share (it was floating around $12 before the announcement) but just over a year later, and with the Lumia 800 and 710 having been on sale now for about 5 months things aren't looking great - the stock has since halved a Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/blog/2012/02/25-flipping-the-table/ My new favourite unicode - flipping the table on the way out: (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/blog/2011/12/24-history-of-android/ Over at The Verge Chris Ziegler has done an amazing write up of the visual history of Android. Seems funny to think that Android has only been with us a few years - it certainly has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Having said that version 4 ("Ice Cream Sandwich") is the first version that I'd actually like to own - for whatever reason I've never really been a fan of Android (which is funny considering my like of most things Google and also the fact that it's built on the Linux kerne Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/blog/2011/11/23-portishead/ Last Thursday I went to the first concert that Portishead has done in New Zealand since the late 90's. I missed them when they came back then and didn't think I'd ever get to see them live as they pretty much dropped off the face of the planet and went quiet for many years so I'm stoked I got to catch them this time. They are definitely looking older these days but still played a really tight set - Beth's voice is as haunting and beautiful as ever. In the tradition of blurry photos from concert Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/blog/2011/11/22-kiwicon-v/ Two weekends ago Wellington played host to the 5th Kiwicon. This was was the second time that I've been to this event and I was well impressed by how it has grown - attendance has doubled in two years and the new venue (Wellington's Opera House) was both beautiful and roomy. The talks this year were a good mix of technical and more general with time being given to the new 3 strikes copyright law that has come into effect in NZ. Highlights include Hacking Hollywood, a sensible approach to securi Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/blog/2011/10/21-nokia-n9/ The Nokia N9 is finally available here in New Zealand, and I must say it looks amazing. I haven't seen one in the metal but from the photos and videos I've seen of it I'd say it's the best looking phone on the market today - better than the iPhone 4S even. I've said it before - Nokia makes some truly great hardware, it's always in the software that they struggle with. But this time it looks like they've hit it out of the park on the software front too with a beautiful fluid Qt4 backed user inte Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/blog/2011/10/20-new-blog/ Welcome to the new look toki.co.nz! Actually, it looks pretty much like the old one but it's now backed by a CMS. I have been wanting to do this for a while now but never found one I liked - most are written in php and are mysql backed (eg Wordpress) which leads to all sorts of fun when it comes to vulnerabilities! A few days ago I discovered BlazeBlogger, a CMS that uses flat files and builds the HTML from a template. It's actually "just" a collection of perl scripts that do all the heavy lift Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/blog/2011/09/19-cisco-vpn-password-decrypter/ When I was setting up the Cisco VPN on my TouchPad to connect to work I needed to enter the group password. Of course in the PCF file that my work distributes with all the settings the group password is encrypted (you're meant to simply import it into the Cisco VPN client - something I can't do in webOS unfortunately). A quick google and I found this website which can decrypt the password in about one second - yay for weak Cisco password encryption! Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:01 GMT