well the iPhone is not exactly the simplest mobile platform, but I expect and hope that a wordpress app will arrive soon. Wroten on my iPhone which luckily corrects almost all of the typos made pm the silly little keyboard.
Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
Vodafone and data warehousing: A translation of that abstract
<cynic mode firmly switched on, with apologies to Rachel> Via Mauricio, it seems from this, that Vodafone are using data warehousing techniques to drive customer retention. I’ve had a go at interpreting the abstract of “The Customer Retention Journey at Vodafone New Zealand” below. Speaker Rachel Harrison is the Vodafone Lead Analyst who is giving …
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Chocolate fish, bloggers and a tragic death
Horrible news from the inquest of Chocolate Fish landlord Adrianus Johanus Vlug, who the coroner found committed suicide after feeling pressure from “rather uninformed bloggers” about the rent increases at the chocolate fish. From that point onward, a series of Facebook blog articles appeared mostly condemning the landlord for having a ‘greedy’ attitude with respect …
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Excellent Samsung viral campaign
I was surprised to hear about my togs stealing exploits – but kudos to Samsung and their agencies for an excellent campaign.I received a link to a fake NZ news site…. Cleverly my details are inserted into the video, along with the name or the perpetrator that dobbed me in. It all links back to …
Tired up
IMG_0020, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. picked up two tires today – a Karroo (like the one with a screw in it, but still a very capable tire) and the Dunlop D908 Rally Raid – that’s top left. The D908’s were made for pretty much exactly what I’ll be doing – allbeit at much faster speeds …
Telcos: stay out of the content game
Via Stuff, and the SMH, a headline that seemingly spells bad news for the iPhone in Australia: “iPhone not so multimedia friendly in Aust” The article goes on to say that the iPhone is unable to play many of the Telco giants mobile offerings, such as Vodafone Live, Telstra’s Big Pond TV or Optus’ ringtones …
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Given the strength of the sidewalls – what better option than to fill the tire full of foamy stuff, ignore the fact that most of it came out of the now wrecked tube and ride home? It made it – this is the tire after …
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. to finish things off – a puncture. In the rain. That screw appeared in my rear tire about 70kms out. So off came the rear wheel, out came the brand new tire levers… .. and on went the rear wheel again. the tire levers and …
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. After the perfect sun, came the wind and then the rain. Lots of all three.
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. This guy is heading across to Queensland, through the red center. His bike is loaded in a very top-heavy way.
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. The next day we headed back to Perth
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Getting stuck in sand was an old trick…
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Up to old tricks – 3 downs in 2 days, and I’m really pleased that not only did I take a photo each time, but I also managed to get the battleship bike upright on my own.
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Adam was loving it on his 400 – with road tires!
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Holland Track and Kalgoorlie with Adam, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Running into a bush on a precipice was a new-found ability
