Things I am interested in…

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These are my links for April 20th:

• Home Recording, MIDI, Soundfonts, Karaoke, VST, Samples @ HomeMusician.Net –
• Royal Jordanian Airlines –
• Air Emirates –
• Lonely Planet Guidebooks –
• Search and Find Cheap Flights and Airline Tickets – dohop.com –
• The Escapist –
• Diggnation ? Revision3 –
• DailyLit: Read books by email and RSS. –
• TheBeebBlog.com –
• Podiobooks.com – Serialized audio books in podcast form –
• Dvorak – The Nomic Card Game System –
• The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte –
• STAR WARS Technical Commentaries –
• DDH Software –
• Snorg Tees – New Funny T-Shirts Every Week (Vintage T-Shirt, Cool Graphic Tee Shirts) - –
• Game Rankings – Video Game Reviews, Release Dates, Cheat Codes –
• Gamasutra – The Art & Business of Making Games –
• Frets On Fire –

These are my links for March 4th:

• thesixtyone – a music adventure –
• Gmaps Pedometer –
• PLoS Medicine – A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal –
• Crackdown strategy guide and walkthrough for the Xbox 360 – hints, tips, cheats, and achievements –
• My Wiki 360 –
• Jeff Russell’s STARSHIP DIMENSIONS –
• Self Psychology Page – Psychoanalytic Self Psychology of Heinz Kohut –
• Teiho – Maori Mental Health Registrar Training Website –
• Basic Guide How to Convert AVI Files to DVD with Avi2DVD | Articles – (DivX/XviD) Digital Digest – Avi2DVD
• Renaissance Corporation Limited –
• Download of Psychiatry –
• UTas ePrints – Home –
• Splashup –
• MapWoW.com World of Warcraft Maps –
• Feature: Set Up Real-Time, Bulletproof Backup Drive Redundancy with RAID –
• Color for Coders – Color and Design for the Non-Designer [Design Principles] –
• || Dummy Text Generator | Lorem ipsum for webdesigners || –
• Proxgle – Fastest Proxy on the Net! and Part of the #1 Proxy Network –
• MajorGeeks.com – Download Freeware and Shareware Computer Utilities. –
• Inspect My Gadget –
• Optimize Guides –
• Featured Windows Download: Speed Up Your Startup Time with BootVis –
• Whatatop – Top pictures –
• Atomic v2.6 –
• Mac Emulation Resources @ OSX-E –
• How to Pimp Your Windows XP Desktop to Look Like a Cool Mac Desktop – wikiHow –
• izox.zone :: home –
• The World Time Server – correct, current, local –
• CIA – The World Factbook –
• PROXY List: Free Anonymous Proxy Server Surfing – Hide IP Address –
• BNF.org: –
• USGPO Style Manual: Main Page –
• Domain Tools: Whois Lookup and Domain Suggestions –
• Wiki – AboutUs Wiki Page –
• http://deputy-dog.com/2008/01/23/10-stunning-ultra-geeky-home-cinemas/ –
• http://www.480x.com/ –
• Headzoo » WP Anti-Wares –
• Boardreader – Forum Search Engine –
• Coolest Gadgets – reporting on the latest cool gadgets –
• SpoutBlog –
• Burbanked.com –
• Fishpond.co.nz: Shop Online for new & used Books, Music, CDs, Movies & DVDs in NZ –

This is what iTunes thinks I listen to:

For quite some time I have suspected that my ISP (Telecom NZ) has been shaping traffic – specifically, my traffic.

 I did some googling (keywords: telecom, “traffic shaping”, policy; limited to New Zealand websites) and came up with this interesting local discussion from the end of last year.

There were many other links, which, in summary, stated that Telecom has been traffic shaping packets in the plan I currently use, from when it was first introduced in December last year.  Apparently they stopped doing this at the end of last month.

Have since found another interesting blog article here that gives more information…

Here is Telecom NZ’s official statement…

Here is a story about it in a local newspaper…

 I have not yet decided how I feel about this, or what to do.  I think I will investigate the NZ ISPs that do not massage their traffic, and quite likely transfer over to one of them.

References:

• Net neutrality
• Traffic shaping