Monthly Archives: October 2010

Determination

That’s Paul Graham from yCombinator’s  number one quality he looks for in start up founders. Everything can and will go wrong, but drive and an unwillingness to accept defeat will see great founders through to success. It may not come … Continue reading

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NZ Oil and Gas email scammer

NZOG’s CFO apparently not only wants to shift a bunch of money, but he also has an email address in Kazakstan. Who knew. Sadly the chances of a random person on a spammers email list being from New Zealand is … Continue reading

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How to save money by being more green with no pain

Change your printer and your AC unit. That’s pretty much all a small design firm did in California, along with swapping their SUV for a Prius. They first tried a bunch of other stuff to reduce emissions, and only replaced … Continue reading

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Big data – what will you use it for?

I was speaking to a colleague today in Australia – he was upset that Telstra  increased his data plan to 50 GB without changing the price. His point was that he only uses 4 GB per month, but Telstra gave … Continue reading

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Time to fix the jury service

There is a good article and excellent discussion on the jury service issue over on Kiwiblog. The system is broken it seems, with a paltry 15 of those called to service actually showing. There are many that complained that the … Continue reading

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Where does the NZ Government get money?

I am doing some work after the previous post on tax spend, and here are a few top line results so far. I want to end up with  spreadsheet, as Rowan did a couple of years back, where you can … Continue reading

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Telecom some ideas for your prepay recharge screen

This is Telecom’s prepay information screen. I’ve been looking at it a lot over the last two days as both my T Stick and iPad needed recharging. It was a frustrating experience, and the T-Stick just failed again yet the … Continue reading

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Show me the receipt please

This is a great idea – from 3rd Way and via npr. Taxpayers would receive a receipt for their tax detailing where there money was spent. A person earning $34,140 would get something like this (minus the red notes) And … Continue reading

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