Category: Agent K and the rest of the world

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An awesome day with Air New Zealand

by kai on 23/02/2010

Yesterday, I had one of the most awesome days of my life. It would rate it right below the category comprising "Getting married to @blauerpunto" and "Getting permanent residency in New Zealand" and on a very similar level with stuff such as "Flying in a small airplane for the first time" and "Going solo in a small airplane for the first time". So - what happened? Let me briefly introduce you to…

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My personal review of Webstock 2010 – (part III: conference proper Friday)

by kai on 23/02/2010

This is the final post of the Webstock 2010 series. It's covering Friday of "conference proper". The day started with a nice breakfast at Finc (not part of the official Webstock agenda though) and a way too cold auditorium in the Town Hall. But Internet was fixed again and it seemed as if most people were able to login to the Wifi again. The Friday sessions: Eric Ries - The Lean Startup My…

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My personal review of Webstock 2010 – (part II: conference proper Thursday)

by kai on 22/02/2010

This second part of my Webstock 2010 review briefly covers the conference sessions on Thursday and some other bits and pieces around it. Webstock 2010 was again held in Wellington's Town Hall - the historic and classic style of the building really lends itself to an event like Webstock and if it was mine I wouldn't move it anywhere else either. Most of the conference is run as a single stream of…

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Speaking at Flash Platform User Group Wellington (New Zealand)

by kai on 05/02/2010

After the XMas break is now finally over and summer has arrived in Wellington, we're starting the monthly meetings of the Flash Platform User Group again. Actually we were known as the Flex User Group but went through a bit of self-finding and re-branding and the outcome is a broader focus on the overall Flash Platform. That also includes Flash, AIR, Flash Catalyst and associated things like the…

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Adobe Refresh in Asia Pacific

by kai on 01/02/2010

This is just a quick reminder that Adobe is running a series of Refresh events across Asia Pacific in February. Perth and Sydney are apparently booked out resp. very close to being booked out - but there are places left for Brisbane, Melbourne and Auckland. --- snip --- Join Adobe in a dynamic live presentation to REFRESH your understanding of the most recent initiatives in the areas of content…

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Webinale 2010

by kai on 29/01/2010

Yay, Webinale 2010 in Berlin is on again (31/05 - 02/06) and I'm going to be hosting and moderating the RIA day at the conference. I'm quite happy and proud to have put together a super-interesting agenda (tentatively) with a quite international bouquet of speakers (in fact: Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany :-) 1. Kai Koenig: Wieviel RIA braucht der Mensch? (@agentk) 2. Thibault Imbert:…

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Disabling CTRL+ALT+DEL to login in Win 2k3 server

by kai on 29/01/2010

Args, this is one of those "note to myself" posts. Today I was looking (for the n-th time) for the local policy setting to switch of the necessity that a user has to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to login in a Win 2k3 server. It's particularly annoying as I'm running one for development purposes in a VM and I'm forced to use the VMWare Fusion menu to simulate the key stroke. Now, here it is: Launch Group…

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Why Air New Zealand is the Airline of the Year!

by kai on 25/01/2010

Air New Zealand (short Air NZ from here on) - my home turf airline - has recently been named Airline of the Year in the Air Transport World magazine awards. There are plenty of reasons why they absolutely have deserved to win this award. Plenty, really! Lance Wiggs has listed a few of those from his point of view and I couldn't agree more (Make sure you read it, Lance's post is really interesting…

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Accessible PDF documents and forms

by kai on 20/01/2010

Yes, to a lot of people's surprise PDF documents can be authored (and made afterwards) accessible. The keywords here are avoiding scanned paper documents (although OCR can do quite a lot) and in particular making use of tagging and reading order. A very good overview is provided by the Social Security Administration in the US. Although not everything in there is applicable in non-US countries due…

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Hints from someone who travels too often

by kai on 23/05/2009

Before I start this post - I'm already in the process of rebuilding this blog: new engine, new look & feel etc. Just not finished yet - so don't complain :-) This is just a quick post that comprises a random dump of thoughts on air travel, a few recommendations and links to tools I find useful. The fact that I'm writing this post in a Thai Royal Silk lounge in Bangkok should tell you already…

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