This really is a stunning piece of work – even made this cynic think twice. Well done Telecom. It’s important because it shows that Telecom increasingly gets it – they are getting that it is about delivering the right service to New Zealanders (fiber to the home rated a mention), they get that it is …
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Global warming and you
Here’s excellent graphic from FiveThirtyEight via Treehugger and via New Zealand’s The visible hand showing data from a report from the the Yale Forestry and Environmental Studies School Climate Change project. It needs no explanation. The project’s survey: “Climate Change on the the American Mind” is a lengthy and ponderous read, and is so queued …
Wear your safety equipment – black Gloves are cool
Following on from an earlier post on dorky safety Glasses – the next easiest piece of safety protection to wear is a decent pair of gloves. They can even make your live easier when working. Indeed it is this that has led me to wear gloves a lot recently, and while the gloves can make …
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Wear your safety equipment – dorky glasses are cool
This chap ended up with a grinder blade in his head and is lucky to be alive. What the article does not say is whether he was wearing a face shield, and it also makes no comment on the safety of the tool itself, whether he was wearing other safety equipment such as a face …
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How to write a promo email – Apple sets the standard
It’s a great product – but I really don’t think my Mother will use an iPod touch, and I really don’t think Mothers day in an economic downturn is the time for Kiwis to give expensive presents. However the email is so nice that you just want to click: Apple just gets these promotion emails …
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Two McKinsey pieces on education – do read them
Two astonishing reports on education from McKinsey. The first shows the effect that the USA’s poor schools have had on their economy – and was just released. It finds the economic loss in the order of US$2,400 billion to $4,200 billion of GDP in 2008 alone. That’s more than enough to compensate for the current …
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The New Zealand iPhone 3G network debacle
The iPhone will dominate the top end of phone sales Even if you are a fan of other platforms, we can all appreciate that Apple has bought new levels of usability to the phone. It’s most obvious in the seamless connection with the App store on iTunes – a system that makes building, selling and …
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Stealing content from bloggers
The latest blog to steal my – and others – content is jobs.org.nz. They should know that they are in good company – the previous offender of note was a <redacted> site. So I’ll do the google-ads-filled jobs.org.nz a favor and directly link the two together: redacted <update 2 – after a chat with a …
How to twitter if you are a corporation
Twitter, for members of my family and those other 4 people that read blogs and have not yet discovered it, is a microblogging service that has just hit the main stream media. By definition it is therefore passé, but in the meantime we may as well use it well. Examples: How not to twitter. @NZStuff …
Flirting 2.0
Via Jesspiration is a simple look at how flirting works these days. Note that if I start following you on twitter it doesn’t necessarily mean that I am flirting with you.
Amazon is failing to be the iTunes of book world – so far
I’m warming on the idea of the Kindle – Amazon’s ebook reader. I like it for mass reduction, especially when travelling – it sharply reduces mass that you need to cart around on an airplane or motorcycle. I like it for convenience – You’ll get books that you purchase instantly, rather than waiting for days …
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Understanding our animal spirits
Prof Shiller (remember him from “Irrational Exuberance) has partnered with George A Akerlof in a strangely titled new book: Animal Spirits. I’m recommending it even before reading it. It’s basically about why we don’t behave as rational consumers when faced with economic choices. If you don’t want to wait, then there’s an excerpt from the …
ANZ’s tragic teller system
First you dub an application as “Platinum” – critical to your business. That’s a good idea, so you now know you need to get the system and support absolutely right. You choose to run a trial before rolling it out to all branches – another good idea. However that’s where things started going wrong for …
Lingopal is launched for iPhone
We at Lingopal were pretty happy this weekend- as Lingopal was finally released for the iPhone. Check it out We think it’s vastly better than any other translation application on iPhone – with 42 languages (next best is about 6) and some really crazy fun phrases. Where else can you learn how to say “I …
Homepage review: Pundit
I was shown Pundit the other day. It’s a site that is agglomerating a few writers to create a super blog.Good idea, but the home page needs some work. The site design does little to draw me in, and indeed I was not tempted to click on any of the articles during the time I …
Lance Wiggs 