Well, another good idea bites the dust. Joneses Real Estate has gone into voluntary liquidation. I wrote a post here several months back on the Joneses. It seems that any alternative to the commission sale model on selling your house is doomed to failure. Which is a pity as there is a market for it, […]
I’m exhausted. What a great two days – I was overwhelmed by many web aficionados who passionately presented a myriad of topics: from the history of Open Source, to becoming “Unstuck” to “Managing Design” to “Web 2.Odium”…and more. At the end of the first day I was having difficulty remembering all the speakers I had […]
The incident on Friday involving a knife, a Somali woman, and a small aircraft highlights the absurdity of airport security in New Zealand. Why has the differentiation existed between the smaller planes that fly between regions and the jets that fly between the main centres? I’m surely not the first person to notice that regional […]
Sugar gave me a set of acrylics for my Christmas present. I’ve been saying for ages it was about time I started painting again. So with the receipt of this gift I really had no excuse. The last time I had dabbled in painting it was using industrial grade canvas stretched over a frame knocked […]
I watched a very strident Mark Sainsbury on Close Up tonight defending himself and his programme over the giving of petrol vouchers and motel accommodation to Tame Iti and his extended family. Sainsbury got hot under the collar about it – in fact I’ve never seen him so defensive, or willing to do battle. At […]
See anything wrong with this animated gif from the National Party website? Does that look like the past leader, Donald Brash, on the TV screen, alternating with a much smaller and less prominent picture of John Key?