A great video from the folks at BMW. The takeover of once boring but always reliable BMW Motorad by horsepower crazy lunatics continues. These days BMW bikes (depending on the model) have almost too much power but still retain the core BMW values of sturdiness, practicality and safety. All of the BMW’s that I have …
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Federated Farmers – Withdraw that press release
A strange piece written by Federated Farmers appeared on infonews just now. It’s aimed at influencing those observing the free trade negotiation happening in Melbourne. It starts out tough: Federated Farmers believes American dairy farmers have nothing to fear but fear itself, if New Zealand and United States enter into a free trade agreement. 1: …
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Electricity company puts prices down!
PowerKiwi, a company that I am a co-founder of, today dropped prices for Flowerpower for most Powershop customers. Pricing for electricity varies by location, annual usage and the type of meters you have, but we are pleased to be able to do these special, pre-winter season, prices. Prices will, sadly, rise during the winter period …
Pacific – Technical details
We’ve posted some of the technical details of the proposed cable over at the Pacific Fibre blog. Check them out
Introducing Pacific Fibre
We’ve just sent out this press release. Pacific Fibre is a big deal – and we have a lot of work to do! Check out PacificFibre.net and follow us: Twitter.com/PacificFibre. Press release: Thursday 11 March, 2010 New Zealand businessmen propose project to build international fibre cable Aim is unlimited high speed broadband for New Zealand …
Theresa’s blogging fodder
It’s sad and essentially irrelevant any more, but the excerpt (not online) from Theresa Gattung’s book printed in Friday’s Business Herald is beautiful blog and commentator fodder. The book emerges this Friday – and it is certain to have more. Gordon Campbell has had a good go, and of course The Standard is not above …
Major changes required
http://www.transport.govt.nz/saferjourneys/Documents/Safer%20Journeys%20First%20Actions.pdf, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I feel sorry for the people at NZTA – when something as simple as changing from a CC restriction to a power/weight restriction requires “major changes” to an IT system. I guess the current system simply states the CC size, whereas the new system will need information on the power …
The case for zero tolerance
A few suggestions on driving emerged from the Safer Journeys first actions paper. While some are controversial – such as raising the minimum age to 16 from 15 – others, like better training for motorcyclists and longer supervised driving periods are good. If we think of being an expert driver is completing the 10,000 hours …
Qantas slowly catches up
Astonishingly Qantas has only now introduced seat selection for Australian domestic flights.Sadly it appears to be avaialble to Gold members (and better) only. Air New Zealand has had this for quite some time.
Failing at Ignite Wellington
Tonight, at similar times around the world, are the O’Reilly Ignite sessions. Wellington is hosting one, and I’m last up after an otherwise impressive line of speakers.(scroll down the homepage to see the speakers and topics) I’ll be speaking on the topic of Failure – and why it is right to set yourself up to …
The Atlantic Redesign
At first I thought The Atlantic redesign was good – they are doing interesting things by putting stories in the tab drop downs. Then I tried to find Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog (responsible for a good chunk of the Atlantic’s traffic), and failed – I had to resort to search. On reading the blog …
Portfolio – 2009 results
I last wrote about my US equity portfolio in November, and here are the year-end results. Things have been steady since then – mainly becase the portfolio is almost entirely in cash at the moment. Overall it was a quiet investment year for me in 2009, despite the good results. I went long on Apple, …
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