Guess what? Now you can keep up to date with TECHGEEK.com.au, Australia’s technology blog, on Facebook. This page will allow you to keep up to date with the latest news from the blog, and that’s about it. However, we plan to do more things on the Facebook page, like making it a central hub.

So make sure you become a fan of TECHGEEK.com.au, and we do apologise for the weird codes that are in our titles, but they are the fault of Ping.FM, which we are using to phase this in. We soon to hope to fix this soon.

As TECHGEEK.com.au is growing at a rapid rate, I have to fess up and make an apology to readers who were deceived in a recent story “Microsoft acquisition of Chandler Networks”, thinking that the New Zealand company Chandler Networks has been bought by Microsoft.

The full story has been removed because it failed to meet the TECHGEEK.com.au’s ethos of accurate and opinionated. I, as editor in chief, failed to realise this error, and I do apologise for those readers who have been deceived by our writer, who does own the company in question.

The writer, who will not be named, has been suspended for two weeks for failing to meet the requirements of that ethos. I do wish to say that TECHGEEK.com.au does NOT have any links with Chandler Networks, other than the writer who owns the company. The company does not own a stake in the website.

I do apologise again for those who were deceived.

So did you notice a change? Yes, we have a new logo – a brand new, non-capitalised “TECHGEEK” logo. Thanks for noticing that. Oh, and TECHGEEK.com.au just got recently a brand new web design which replaces the old “Flux” template we had for about six months.

So, why did we change the design? Well, we had a look at our branding for 2009 – well, all of the sites did under Reawaken Media; and we decided that we need something to bring “spark” back to our new site – and that’s what this theme brought.

So let us welcome BitStream.

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Because Terence H doesn't support Valentine’s Day, well he probably will in a few years but until then he has gotten me to write this season greetings, Easter, st. Patricks day, Valentines post to all you techgirls out there, if there are any.

Currently I have a Valentines already by the name of Michy E which I’m going to have a lovely dinner with tonight and then maybe catch a new release movie of some sort of thing and then tell her she’s the best thing that happened to me and we will probably end up hooking up like every metro teen these days and then seeing each other next week.

So getting back to the post, this is Techgeek's 22nd month around so I'm guessing that’s nearly 2 Valentines Day’s it’s been through 'love is in the air'.

This heart goes out to my past ex's, mainly Michy, Crystal and any other girl who feels satisfied with me.

The team over at TECHGEEK.com.au wishes everyone a Happy New Year for 2009, and a welcome to the end of a turbulent year of 2008. If you haven’t noticed; TECHGEEK.com.au has had several Year In Review posts during the past six hours, and I hope you do read them. If you missed them, here are the links:

• January & February 2008
• March & April 2008
• May & June 2008
• July & August 2008
• September & October 2008
• November 2008
• December 2008

2008 saw us have a full year of coverage on TECHGEEK.com.au, and while we saw several countries fall into recession, several companies collapsed or saw job cuts, or even have Barack Obama winning the 2008 Election; TECHGEEK.com.au is pleased to have called 2008 the year where we finally did something that we accomplished – surviving.

And thanks to your visits (according to Google Analytics), we can now count down the top ten most visited posts that we have on our massive library of content. Oh, and Merry Christmas!

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It’s that time of the year again, and why not have your say on what were your favourite on the funniest, the weirdest, the best, the worst and your favourite local news stories of 2008. We scoured through our archives (our amazing 1,000+ posts) to pick which one to fill up our categories. Voting will go for four weeks, and we will reveal the answers, along with our favourite and worst gadgets and our year in review. You can vote as many as you want.

Here is how the vote works:

• You can vote by Twitter by tweeting #TG08 and tweet what your vote was, or replying to our Twitter Account (@techgeekcomau)
• Comment below on the post to make your selection.
• Vote in the posts below.

This week’s vote has to do with your favourite local story of the year. Our candidates are:

• Internode starts support of IPv6, first in Australia
• Underbelly goes online, risks ignored
• eBay fails bid for immunity for its new “protection” plans
• iPhone now has an (non-exclusive) carrier in Australia

The Vote box is below (after the jump).

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It’s that time of the year again, and why not have your say on what were your favourite on the funniest, the weirdest, the best, the worst and your favourite local news stories of 2008. We scoured through our archives (our amazing 1,000+ posts) to pick which one to fill up our categories. Voting will go for four weeks, and we will reveal the answers, along with our favourite and worst gadgets and our year in review. You can vote as many as you want.

Here is how the vote works:

• You can vote by Twitter by tweeting #TG08 and tweet what your vote was, or replying to our Twitter Account (@techgeekcomau)
• Comment below on the post to make your selection.
• Vote in the posts below.

This week’s vote is a double – The Funniest and the Weirdest stories of the year. Here are your candidates: Read More »