I said in a previous post that I would write about the way that www.interest.co.nz rate the financial institutions that appear on their site. I need to point out that I’m not a financial expert – I’m just pointing out what I see as some fundamental inadequacies in their rating system. I also need to […]
21 October 1960 – 7 August 2007 The big heart of the Central Plateau and Lake Taupo welcomed me as I drove out of a rain squall up onto the Desert Road from Waiouru. A man with a heart almost as big had tragically died the week before. Bruce Douglas Grant had suffered a stroke […]
Well, Games Gadgets and Geeks is over for another year. We got around 180 registrations, and probably 110 turned up. Speakers ranged from Brian Sweeney (head honcho at Sweeney Vesty and the man responsible for NZEdge), Denise Bach from Yaktivate, Mario Wynands from Sidhe Interactive, Glynn Foster from Sun Microsystems talking about Project Indiana, and […]
The tragedy of the collapsing bridge in Minneapolis brought comparisons to our own Auckland harbour bridge here in godzone. I was amused to see in the weekend press – http://www.stuff.co.nz – a story about the “nippon clip-ons” and how Transit NZ have implemented restrictions on heavy vehicles using those outside lanes. They have reduced the […]
I heard on Morning Report this morning that heavy smoking may slow rheumatoid arthritis. If you’re a sufferer of this disease you probably ran down to the dairy in your jammies to buy a 25 pack of Holidays. If you did rush out you might have missed the punchline: “Cigarette smoking is a known risk […]
Can you believe we consume 60 million pies each year. Apparently it’s a $120 million dollar business. Like my previous post about how many servings of chips New Zealanders eat each week, someone out there is getting more than their fair share of pastry and congealed meat. That’s 15 pies a year for every man, […]