It’s hard to describe how beautiful and how cold it was in Antarctica, so here are some pictures to help. Click on them for giant versions.
Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
The NZ Klout and Klouchebag chart
Klout purports to measure online influence. Apparently I’m worth 45.34, with those two decimals implying a degree of science beyond the measurement. It’s all hogwash of course: The problem with Klout is that a higher score is very often a measure of a higher level of painfulness for the rest of us. Higher scores can …
Boy for sale – partially
I just checked the iTunes NZ store, and sometime between my blog post last September and now, the movie Boy was placed on NZ’s iTunes store. Excellent. Not so excellent is the price, and that when I opened the link somehow both the SD and HD versions of the movie started automatically downloading. I have …
Sorry Mum
Sorry Mum, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Not this year. Apple seems to have a very strange perspective on Mothers’ day.
Our Far South – videos, photos and presentations
Over at OurFarSouth.org Rhian has published the summary presentations and videos that we have to date. First – the videos. They are pretty small – and it’s kinda fun to play them all at once. King Penguins Eternally entertaining. Elephant Seals The noises, oh the noises. Sea Ice Thankfully not strong enough for the ship. …
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WordAds
I’ve just activated WordPress’s WordAds feature. Apparently we get to see some advertisements on this site and I get to earn $millions. That won’t happen (the $millions bit), but I am interested in how this feature is implemented and what sort of advertisements are coming through. So if you see any ads – positive or …
Trade Me and Seek fight it out
trade me jobs, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. It’s pretty amazing looking at the Seek and Trade Me Jobs unique browsers stats. Neither site has managed to eke out an advantage. I guess that means everyone is checking both sites, but also that advertisers would be wise to place ads on both sites as well. Each …
Fixing supermarket self checkout
Buying your groceries at a supermarket is pretty simple – wait in a queue, hand your items over, pay for them, pick them up and go. However the checkout counters are expensive, take up valuable space and only work when there are staff present. That makes it difficult to ramp up or down for demand, …
Calling Auckland Web design and development firms
I often get asked by small to large businesses for help in finding and selecting firms to design websites. While I know a few design firms, I suspect there are many that I have not met, and I don’t know enough about the ones I do know. Over the next two weeks I’d like to …
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Instagram, value and hard work
iPhone (and now Android) photo app developer Instagram just announced that they sold for US$1 billion of Facebook stock and cash. They have no revenue model. The free app allows iPhone owners to take photos and use various filters to make them look archaic and so forth, and became the cool thing to do. The …
Bank homepages in New Zealand – a review
Westpac NZ has launched a new website. They are using Silverstripe, so that means they can more rapidly make changes going forward. That’s good, because the site itself is a mess: There is far too much going on. If you want to, say, calculate how much a home loan would cost, then on mouse-over a …
The resolution war is coming
I wrote an early version of this in response to a Hacker News piece on the next generation of video games. There is an increasingly clear picture of the future of TV screens. Ever higher resolution. TV manufacturers are currently delivering quality HDTV 1080P sets in volume and at low prices. Nobody can really get out of …
Rate iTunes apps out of four not five
iTunes, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. This is the Apple customer feedback for the Twitter iOS app. The app itself is wretched, which is why I joined many others and switched to the admirable Tweetbot. So does 2.5 stars out of 5 mean the app is rated well by half the customers and badly by the …
Powering Million Dollar Mouse
The Our Far South trip was amazing – and I feel bad that I have not written too much about it. Probably the most surprising aspect was the quality of the experience on the various sub Antarctic islands that we have. Campbell Island was one of the last islands we visited, and it hosted sea …
BBD CEO Summit – John Brackenridge (NZ Merino Co)
John Brackenridge is Chairman of the The New Zealand Merino Company, a key supplier to Icebreaker. He sees their goal as being the smartest most robust and valuable part of the primary sector. Smart means listening to others, robust means sustainable and enduring and valuable means successfully commercial. Applying design thinking to sheep was not …
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