Long time no post, a few things have been happening but haven’t had time to post…

I will quickly mention this though. You may have noticed that pricespy.co.nz has recently been changed. Some think its good, most people think its crap. This is because it was bought by the swedish pricespy who changed it to match the swedish pricespy. However it is quite complicated and sometimes difficult or annoying to use.

So me, Alkaif, and a dude Phil the Mysterious (lol) went about creating a site similar to the old pricespy, but with more advanced features. After another one of the team decided to split off and start his own one, we closed the source, however our site seems to be the best out of the 2 similar sites that have spawned since the pricespy change.

Anyways today we went live beta. So check it out at www.howmuchisit.co.nz.

Our categorization is pretty much down pat and accurate, we have a search friendly urls like howmuchisit.co.nz/for/an/amd phenom X4.

We also have forums temporarily located at project.hackproof.co.nz where people can submit feature requests or bugs that they have found.

So far the feedback has been good, both from retailers and users of the old pricespy. So spread the word if you could. Pricespy is dead.

It been a bit long since I posted so I thought I’d just give a quick run through of the past two months.

Two months ago I got made redundant, so the first thing I did was cut a mohawk as in the last entry. Since then its pretty much been a big holiday. I’ve applied for a few jobs. Had an interview at Woosh for 3rd/4th level System Engineer but unfortunately my networking experience wasn’t up to it. That would have been a sweet job. Applied for a 1st level support position at AUT supporting students and staff, but they haven’t contacted me back on them so I’m still looking.

Here’s what I’ve been up to:

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