I’ve just had my weekly TV fix of Brothers and Sisters (TV One, 8.30pm Mondays). We’re up to the third episode. Episode 1 – promising – effective set up of the family and characters Episode 2 – not so good Episode 3 – enjoyable and watchable – has finally established itself as a worthwhile show. […]
I read today in the Dominion Post of another study showing that fatty high-sugar foods are the most popular at the supermarket checkout. The difference was that this was a distinctly New Zealand study undertaken in a Wellington supermarket over a one year period. The results will be published soon in the international journal Public […]
I’m amazed, and saddened that the leader of the free world – George Bush – would feed the President of France – Nicolas Sarcozy – a hamburger, a hot dog and a piece of blueberry pie. Read a transcript of the interview here. If that is the national food of the USA is it any […]
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 […]
David Cunliffe, that ghastly and softly spoken Minister of Communication, Immigration, Information and Technology, and Associate Minister of Economic Development has guided the Anti-Spam law through Parliament. It comes into force on September 5, 2007. Will this Act stop the spam I receive that promises to make my penis bigger, or promises to hook me […]
The Wellington Lions beat Manawatu 37 to 7 at the Cake Tin tonight – but I wasn’t there for the game – I was there to farewell Tana Umaga, playing his 100th game for Wellington. In a lack lustre game that Wellington should have won by a bigger margin Tana played with his usual flair, […]