I’ve just got back from a holiday in Beijing and Hong Kong. What an amazing experience. I have to say a visit to Beijing did fill me with a certain dread. The spectre of Tianneman Square still lingers, and the offhand treatment at the Chinese embassy (arranging visas) certainly made me think it wouldn’t be […]
The last recall notification I received from Consumer made it kinda obvious that there’s little or no difference between branded and non-branded grocery items – apart from the price. Apparently filled pasta under the brands Delmaine, Pams and Signature Range all have the possibility of containing iron filings. The iron filings are in the filling […]
Should I invest in Leopard? I’m running a Powerbook G4 with 1.25 GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. This is within the recommendations set by Apple, but it’s always going to run best on the latest machines. I’ll be interested to see what other ‘older’ Apple users experience. There’s a typically exhaustive review on Cnet […]
Here’s a plug for a new product launched by some ex-Intergenites. In fact the business is an off shoot of Intergen so there’s some serious development power behind it. Action This : get stuff done, go home early! I arrived home at 8.45pm tonight. Perhaps I need something like this. I downloaded the trial today […]
Well, there are a few women in my office that will be disappointed to hear that Rove McManus (he of hit show Rove) has found new love. He’s confirmed, via his manager, that he’s in love with Tasma Walton – star of Blue Heelers . I watched a little bit of his show last Friday, […]
Winston Peters came out today advising everyone to give Mallard a break. “Could we just have a little less of all the hectoring, lecturing, prissy, dogooder, PC, pointing-the-finger at Trevor Mallard because he made one mistake. Imagine where the … English speaking people would be in the cause of democracy and freedom … if [Winston] […]