Mike discovers there's a new CHEESE SHOP in Petone

Pamela the midwife has a blog post of thoughts and info on teenage pregnancy in New Zealand.

Mark Osbourne mentions Uruguay gave a laptop to every single child.

Vampire wannabies can buy bags of tasty blood fit for human consumption.

There's a Save Maranui fundraiser involving speedos.

Open office is spreading quickly all over Belgium according to The Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations.

Someone invented a Robot that loads and unloads the dishwasher

Rachel Alpine talks about need for plain language and official information

Live scribe, the makers of that shiny gadget pen i use alot are opening an app store of applications that run on the pen.

Wellingtonian muso, Sarah Wiig - once apon a time long ago she was a barrista at mojo invincible - she also played robot music at Girl Geek Dinner.

On Tuesday 5th August, 70 geeks gathered in the Emperor Suite at Chow from 6pm till late.

Each guest received a bag of goodies including a bottle of Epic Lager, laser cut decorated USB keys from Shift, Cafenet tokens and discount vouchers from Wanda Harland, amongst other things.
 
Sandy Mamoli spoke about the basics of Ruby on Rails; what to use it for, when to not use it. Jo Hall introduced us to Tech Angels, and described being a female Computer Science Student. Stacey Walker described "impostor syndrome". Sarah Wiig & Band played music, including a song about a Robot.

On Tuesday 5th August, 70 geeks gathered in the Emperor Suite at Chow from 6pm till late. Each guest received a bag of goodies including a bottle of Epic Lager, laser cut decorated USB keys from Shift, Cafenet tokens and discount vouchers from Wanda Harland, amongst other things.
 

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