Via Hazel Philips at NBR I read about local company Mons Royale – who make merino underwear aimed at boarders. Rather tellingly the title of the article was Fashion before Function. The clothing range is a good idea – practical merino underclothing with a bit of colour and splash, along with stying that appeals (hopefully) …
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The last days of the monkey were wet, which means less photos. We stayed dry and cozy in layers of protective, warming and rain proof clothing though.
Yes the theme of this batch of pictures is snow. Unsurprisingly snow and motorcycles are not entirely compatible. I was one of three round the world motorcyclists that decided to let their bikes have a wee rest. Luckily Mod managed to stay upright – he’s the one with his 7 year old daughter on board.
It’s the first frost, and ski season starts tomorrow (at Coronet Peak), so clearly it’s Brass Monkey time. Here’s the first batch of photos, sent while sitting in the sun on a farm near Fairlie during a cat-dog stand-off.
I entered the best blog category for the Qantas media awards and didn’t make the finals. Here were the four posts I put up, with apologies to Russell Brown, Telecom XT and NBR for opening old wounds. Telecom XT Outage – Unacceptable Why I don’t read Public Address NBR’s performance since the subscription wall was built …
It’s early days, but the team at interest.co.nz must be happy that their new site is now up and running. It’s running on a much better platform so they should be able to tweak it a lot in response to readers. And tweak they will need to do. Sadly for me the site has taken …
I was happy to see Lingopal returned 208,000 responses on Google. That’s pretty good right? Well – it is, but it’s pretty humbling when compared to some other products. I expected we’d be a lot smaller than “Sex”, “drugs” and “rock and roll”, and “Avatar” and “Apple” had great publicity. But “iPad”, which didn’t even …
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I’ve just joined the board of directors for Cadimage, joining majority owners Campbell Yule and Tracey Gatland. Actually – there are three companies involved but one smart team. Cadimage subsidiary Graphisoft NZ resells and supports ArchiCAD, which is the most popular CAD program used by architects here. It is pretty cool. Graphisoft supports the industry …
I’ll use three companies where I have equity and active involvement in to critique the announced $321m new funding for Research Science and Technology in business. In short the program will help none of the 10 or so NZ companies that I am involved with. While it may work for larger companies this program does …
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A very clever move by WSJ.com, who have introduced a way to eek more money out of subscribers. It’s WSJ Professional Edition – and which professional cannot resist having their employer pay the $25 extra per month to get these extras: Frankly those extras should be included with the WSJ subscription, and this is simply …
You want to run a survey on social media – so you ask give StopPress a chance to ask their readers for questions. Unfortunately the commentators have a different take on your great idea – and accuse you of firstly not being social media experts and secondly of being lazy. It doesn’t help that you …
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I just made a submission to the Select Committee reviewing the Copyright Amendment Bill. You can too. Here it is: The bill is much improved from previous versions, and I thank the committee for that. Like the other co-founders of Pacific Fibre I was driven to start the project by a sense of frustration at …
A surprising puff piece from Chris Keall in the NBR sings the praises of Telecom’s Chorus Division’s cabinet roll out: The Telecom division is now half way through its government-mandated project to roll-out 3600 roadside fibre optic cable cabinets around neighborhoods nationwide. Each shortens the distance that data has to travel over an older copper …
Yes – I know the trans Tasman fares are pretty low, making it hard to compete. Yes I know that code sharing gives more flights. But I also know that Pacific Blue is not Air New Zealand, and when I want to fly on Pacific Blue I book Pacific Blue. I also know that merging …
Been to this site recently? Not many have. Just 6500 visitors a day visit Autotrader, a lot less than the over 140,000 per day average that visit Trade Me Motors. Autotrader lost because everything was just too hard and too expensive. Their business practices were inherently expensive and unfair to dealers, and the process was …
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Lance Wiggs 