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		<title>*shakes fist* at Australian game censorship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand has been caught in the crossfire by Australia&#8217;s draconian game classification laws. New Zealand gamers normally have a laugh at Australia&#8217;s expense due to their lack of an R18 rating for games, but not this time. 
It would appear that in the opinion of Australian politicians, gamers are all children. There is no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2008/04/16/shakes-fist-at-australian-game-censorship/</link>
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		<title>Alternative transport</title>
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A great visual example of the difference between taking the car and alternative forms of transport.
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		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2008/01/27/alternative-transport/</link>
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		<title>Switched to Linux (again)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I last ran Linux as my primary operating system about four years ago. I switched back to Windows as I was doing a lot of Windows coding for my studies at Media Design School. After getting fed up with various problems I was having with Windows XP I recently decided to switch back to Linux [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2007/04/23/switched-to-linux-again/</link>
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		<title>Slashdot runs serious story on April fools day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ha ha April Fools! As if /. would run anything but non-stop shit April fools jokes the whole day. Okay so it&#8217;s a slight exaggeration but I swear the jokes get worse every year&#8230;
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		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2007/04/01/slashdot-runs-serious-story-on-april-fools-day/</link>
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		<title>GripShift online leaderboards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been working on online high score tables for our PS3 game GripShift. We&#8217;ve now made these live on the official GripShift website. Building our own leaderboard site means we&#8217;ve been able to provide GripShift players with information that is not available in game, like overall player rank. So know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2007/03/15/gripshift-leaderboards/</link>
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		<title>eek!</title>
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		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2007/03/10/eek/</link>
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		<title>Wii News Channel Launches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just updated my Wii to access the newly launched Wii News Channel. The top headline for New Zealand today: &#8220;New Zealand declares National Lamb Day&#8221;.
The country is finally coming out of the closet to declaring their Lamb Love with a national day.
Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton stated, &#8220;New Zealanders had no reason to be embarrassed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2007/01/27/wii-news-channel-launches/</link>
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		<title>Neal Stephensen&#8217;s Diamond Age being made into a mini-series.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pretty exciting news for Neal Stephensen fans:
Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson&#8217;s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady&#8217;s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
It&#8217;s hard to imagine how the novel could be squeezed into six hours but I&#8217;m looking forward to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2007/01/17/neal-stephensens-diamond-age-being-made-into-a-mini-series/</link>
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		<title>GripShift for PLAYSTATION®3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on GripShift for PS3 for a while now. Development is all wrapped up for the US version which should be released very soon now.

So far there announcement has been covered by IGN, Eurogamer, Computer &#038; Video Games, Kotaku &#038; Destructoid. There&#8217;s a fair bit of discussion about the features that are in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2006/12/20/gripshift-for-playstation%c2%ae3-announced/</link>
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		<title>Zombies march on Wellington</title>
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Civil servants rise from the dead to celebrate Friday the 13th
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		<link>http://bitshifter.net.nz/2006/10/14/zombies-march-on-wellington/</link>
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