This week’s music is strictly from Down Under, the home of the Finn Brothers, Dave Dobbyn’s DD Smash, Middle Earth and Lucy Lawless aka Xena Warrior Princess.

The first song this week is from dDub of Auckland New Zealand called Comfort.
If you love the sound of The Specials or Madness you will love this track. dDub [...]

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Range put me onto the technique of HDR Photography [How to] in his post.

Wellington Cityscape., originally uploaded by Peter Sundstrom.
This is an HDR picture of my hometown Wellington. The building on the left is 1 Willis St o oops Majestic Tower, 1 Boulcott St. I also figured out how the Wordpress API for Flick works [...]

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Apparently down under there is a big hoohaa (ruckus) about an Italian Fiat ad featuring the haka.
[youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhFCPzc0olU&search=fiat%20haka]
I am not too worried about this. It is someway flattering that they would take an icon from the South Pacific and use it to promote a small black Fiat car, however some people are.
The commercial - used [...]

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