BMW has just released the street version of their Supersport bike. This is an important event in the decade long takeover of the marque by horsepower crazy hoons. Those hoons still believe in ABS and traction control – this bike has 4 settings that adjust the engine, ABS and traction control for Rain, Sport, Race …
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Uncovering the truth behind “50% of teens post senstive information”
Last week we saw a plethora of New Zealand headlines bemoaning the poor behaviour of ‘kids today’ – this time in how they handle their sensitive information online. The punchline was that one in two students had posted sensitive information about themselves online in the past year. TVNZ went with Half of NZ teens post …
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The spectrum of blogging engagement
While I may not agree with it entirely, Mikearauz has come up with a useful way to look at the way casual interest can turn into advocacy online. Since I don’t agree with it – I decided to have a crack at my own version. This is my take on “Blogging Engagement” – written from …
2 shots were fired
I am immensely proud to live in a country where, when faced with a well trained and armed guy fortressed in a house, the police acted in a responsible manner. Even after the provocation of seeing one of their number shot and lie dead in the street for the duration of the siege, police fired …
67 is the new magical number
photo, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs.
The XT network debable – Winners and Losers
I was pretty angry at Telecom yesterday when I wrote Pay the $900,000 Telecom you cheap sods, but a day later it seems that they will do so. Good. Now that the debacle is over, let’s check the winners and losers tally. Winners – in order Vodafone, for a well-timed legal action which created a …
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Spend the $900,000 Telecom – you cheap sods
Sigh. And there I was praising Telecom the other day – praise it seems that was all too soon. I am concerned that recent behavior is indicating that Telecom is back to its old monopolist ways. I write of course of the XT network interference with the Vodafone network. The facts laid out in Vodafone’s …
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The media is no longer the message
An interesting survey by eMarketer, via WebProNews: Stop. Don’t look too hard at the table. This survey is fundamentally flawed. The flaw is simple, and it reflects an old mode of thinking: These days the media is not the message. For example there are over 200 million blogs (they have stopped counting), and to rate …
Lingopal is big in Japan
Lingopal translates between 42 languages – and can be operated in any of those languages as well. That means it is of use to people shopping on all of the Apple iTunes stores. So it was always going to be interesting which countries picked us up first. Would backpackers from Australia and UK find us …
Importing MYOB data into Xero – opportunity?
I’m trying to convince my mother to switch to Xero from MYOB. The unfortunate problem is that all of her history is stored in MYOB, and so switching requires re-keying of invoices and the like. The solution to this is to commence using Xero at the start of a financial year, which leads to a …
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How Baupost’s goresight let them weather the storm
Notes from Seth Klarman’s speech at Columbia Business School is, interestingly, the most popular clicked-on link from here, coming from The Baupost Story post. So let’s do a round up of coverage, find some more reading on the Baupost story and see what we can learn about how Baupost’s approach pays off for investors during …
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Praise, yes praise, for Telecom
This really is a stunning piece of work – even made this cynic think twice. Well done Telecom. It’s important because it shows that Telecom increasingly gets it – they are getting that it is about delivering the right service to New Zealanders (fiber to the home rated a mention), they get that it is …
Global warming and you
Here’s excellent graphic from FiveThirtyEight via Treehugger and via New Zealand’s The visible hand showing data from a report from the the Yale Forestry and Environmental Studies School Climate Change project. It needs no explanation. The project’s survey: “Climate Change on the the American Mind” is a lengthy and ponderous read, and is so queued …
Wear your safety equipment – black Gloves are cool
Following on from an earlier post on dorky safety Glasses – the next easiest piece of safety protection to wear is a decent pair of gloves. They can even make your live easier when working. Indeed it is this that has led me to wear gloves a lot recently, and while the gloves can make …
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Wear your safety equipment – dorky glasses are cool
This chap ended up with a grinder blade in his head and is lucky to be alive. What the article does not say is whether he was wearing a face shield, and it also makes no comment on the safety of the tool itself, whether he was wearing other safety equipment such as a face …
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