Cart – Apple Store (New Zealand), originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. A rare mishap on an Apple site – this the Store.Apple.co.nz site. I would like to buy the new mouse, but when I try to view the cart I get this. Tonight is the second time I have tried.
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Alcohol minimum pricing – Reversing the Facts
A PRESS RELEASE FROM MY DAD. Plenty more to come on this topic I feel Website: http://www.ffar.org Email: gwiggs@ffar.org Media Release Box 776, Noosa Heads Queensland 4567 Australia ALCOHOL MINIMUM PRICING – Reversing the Facts The Scottish Government is actively pursuing the introduction of a policy of minimum pricing for alcohol. The proposed minimum price …
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Why not switch to the BNZ Global Plus Cards?
ccselector.html, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Technebish and Adam suggest I switch to that I switch to the Global Plus Platinum Card. Here, straight from the BNZ website, is the comparison table between the Global Plus, Platinum (mine) and GlobalPlus Platinum cards. They all show Air New Zealand AirPoint Conversion. Why would the other two stay …
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An open letter to Air New Zealand
Dear Air New Zealand Why are you walking away from the revenue provided by people with bank rewards programs – and stopping conversion to Air New Zealand Airpoints Dollars? I refer of course to the recent notification by BNZ and other banks that they will no longer support Airpoint Dollar conversion. It puzzles me I …
An open letter to BNZ Credit Cards
To/BNZ Credit Cards Wellington, New Zealand CC/ a few other folks. Dear BNZ Credit Cards; I am very upset. The other day I opened this message in my BNZ internet banking inbox (good to see the newer website by the way): In this letter (which I assume you have also sent to my address, which …
The stupid American Express “prove you are you” policy
My phone rings – it’s a blocked call. I answer, and then a pause before I hear: “Hello Mr. Wiggs It’s so and so from American Express and this is a courtesy call. Can you please answer a question to prove that you are indeed Lance Wiggs?” “Umm – can you please first supply me …
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NZ Newspaper Readership Numbers
More Red Sea – this time the changes in circulation numbers for Newspapers. The charts show the difference in readership between 2007/8 and 2008/9. Once again these are supplied by Roy Morgan. I’ve put the Sundays, which is once-weekly and not a daily average, into the same charts. Click on the images for larger versions. …
NZ Magazine Readership numbers
The Roy Morgan newspaper and magazine readership numbers are out. I created some charts to read the Magazine numbers better – so here they are. They show the differences between 2007/8 and 2008/9 readership numbers. Click on the images for larger versions. Check out the Newspaper readership charts post as well. It’s a sea of …
The least remarkable ad campaign
The least remarkable ad campaign, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I’m pretty sure MyFarm is unhappy about the placement of their advertisement in NBR’s afternoon update email.
A very clever ad
S0 why are we not building using more rail?
Those global roaming costs and Kindle in NZ
Amazon.com: Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, U.S. & International Wireless, Latest Generation): Kindle Store, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I’m glad to hear via NBR that both Vodafone and Telecom are fighting for the rights to deliver Kindle content. That’s good, and I hope for the sake of all of us that they can offer …
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Lingopal still big in Japan
Lingopal sales by Region, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Six months on and Lingopal is consistently getting half of our revenue from Japan. While Europe has a good showing it is really surprising to us how low the US sales are, considering the overwhelming size of the iPhone/iPod touch app market there. Or perhaps not. US …
News from afar – patience required
After the comments in the last post I decided to find some numbers behind the Mozambique experience of Stuff and NZHerald. Happily the Stuff website eventually came back up. However the experience is less than stellar. My first test shows the home page took 22 seconds to load. Another attempt a few minutes later (done …
Is Stuff cut off from the world?
For the last few days I’ve failed to get anything from Stuff.co.nz. Sure I am in Mozambique but NZHerald and everything else is working just fine, while others in DC and Singapore have hinted at the same problem. I’ve tried m.stuff.co.nz, and it did work – albeit unusably slowly. What’s going on? Are others overseas …
USA’s loss of trust in news
Fairfacts confirmed in a post a little while back that his idea of fair is the same as that of Fox News . He did it though while commenting on a particularly interesting series of research. The research is a periodic survey, conducted since 1985 by Pew, on public attitudes to the media. As always …
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