I don't think it's all that hard so long as you are a 'Skilled Migrant': From the New Zealand immigration website:

I think most slashdotters would qualify, but there is a calculator you can use to check if you would you could get a visa under this category.

Disclaimer: I am a proud Kiwi/New Zealander who would welcome more geeks.

This is what me and my friends refer to as "HOS", Hollywood Operating System

This was blown out of all proportions by skeptics. the guts of it is based around swapping reading from tree rings to instrumental data:
"If you were to go solely by these tree rings — and if you were looking at just ring density and width — you'd erroneously conclude that temperatures were falling when, in fact, they were rising. That's why scientists sometimes omit tree-ring data from recent decades in favor of the more accurate instrumental data."
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2009/1215/Climategate-global-warming-and-the-tree-rings-divergence-problem

The oldest and most crucial team members left and started the Jenkins fork of Hudson. I read this as Oracle panicking they have no one capable of maintaining Hudson, so have given up on it as an Oracle product.

Two major things, 1) it came out before M&M I (albeit, just before), and 2) you couldn't get M&M on the Sega Master System ;). Ultima IV is one of the games I have the fondest memories of, it introduced me to RPG's and had a fairly good story line.

Well, there are two groups of people, some that want simple games, some that want hugely complex games. These two groups also overlap (I for one play both types). My point is that it depends on the time and situation, if I have 5 minutes spare or I am traveling somewhere I will play a simple game - but I'm not going to play the same game for hours on end. Both have their markets, and both will continue to thrive.

Sometimes people just want simple mindless games like Angry Birds, games that they can play on there train ride to work. But, (and big but), I'm sure as hell not going to spend my Sunday's at home playing angry birds instead of a gaming console. So basically, two different use case, not rocket science.

...it was time to market. Yes, I could have bought it online for £450 but the contract deals are so much more appealing. The UK telcos simply didn't offer it on contract. And then along came the HTC Desire, effectively the same phone, same price, but available on contract. It cut the price down to £100 upfront on a two year contract for £15 a month fee.

I recently bought a Dell laptop, they are far better value for money for the Intel i-series chips. I really, really, wanted to support Ubuntu and have Ubuntu installed on the laptop - Dell wouldn't have a bar of it. They seem to only ship Ubuntu on lower spec laptops, which, IMHO, is utterly rubbish.

Actually, come to think about it, they wouldn't even UNINSTALL the anti virus software even if I paid the same price.

I'll bite. Although New Zealand may seem small next to Australia, it is actually slightly larger than the whole of the UK.