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So my flatmate left over the weekend and before doing so he got the Phone/Internet/TV cut off and due to a stuff up on my part I can't join Telstra for another couple of years (long story). So I haven't had the Internet for a week or so nor have I had a phone (not that that gets used much anyway).

So I took the plunge and tried Orcon and ended up speaking to a chap by the name of Stefan. The whole process was smooth, quick, and helpful. All my questions were answered and although for some reason the NZMAC promo code didn't work he organised to get it added to my account anyway.

The product knowledge was awesome and when I enquired about the modem being used on my own Airport Extreme he confirmed it wasn't a problem and even confirmed they had Mac support. In fact every question I had Stefan was able to answer and the only things he had to put me on hold for was the promo code and to double check on the services that were available in my area.

 

The MacBook Air is an interesting development. Sure it's been done before but the thing that is interesting more than what the MacBook Air has is what it has left out. The DVD drive.

 

I don’t know what made me do it, but I typed in the old www.macguide.co.nz address a few moments ago...and got a pleasant surprise...and then got confused....and then got angry...and then got spam.

It’s great to see the Macguide site finally come alive, although the redirection to a domain called “woop.tv” had me freaking out a bit. On the surface, this looked like the Macguide site I was expecting....Apple and Mac news etc.

Obviously even though it is early days, I was curious to see who was using the site and noticed a number of blog entries. Str

It's not been a great time for NZMac.com over the past month or so. More often than not, you've experienced a message that the site is offline. It's also meant hours of work, lack of sleep (Palmerston North is very quiet at 3am by the way) and new additional costs for me in order to get the site back up and running to the standard that I set for myself and that is required for site users. Things are going really well with the move to a Virtual Private Server system, but it's not all over in terms of glitches. That said, I consider most of the issues are resolved (or close to) and like life, this site will always be a "work in progress".

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for your patience during this time, to thank the advertisers for their understanding and supportive comments, and to ask one simple favour - your continued support.

This is not a plea for donations or for funds...well not directly anyway ;-)

In the past month many costs associated with the site have had to increase. Hosting costs have gone up and are now close to triple of what I had been paying a couple of months back before the site started getting IP attacks. These costs are going to be ongoing. It's been an amazing learning experience, but an expensive one at that....and one I could have done without...but that's life!