My US Share portfolio (green) in 2007 was up 63.5% versus the S&P500 index return of 3.53%. A great year, and I did sell down a bit around the peak, which hit 77%. Can I do it again? This year to Friday the 28th of March – I’m up just 12.6%, but the index is …
Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
Blogging for $35 billion – Expensive Tankers
So you lose a $35 billion deal to a competitor that you have been keeping away from your major customer for years. What do you do? Well if you are Boeing, the customer is the US Government (Airforce), the competitor is Airbus and the product is refueling tankers, then you start a blog. and launch …
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Presenting – bringing in the new way to old industries
The “new way” of presenting seems to be diffusing pretty rapidly through the high tech/web communities, with some industries having seen the back of death by powerpoint bullets. There isn’t really a “new way” – it’s just that people are beginning to really care about how they present. The “new way” is really just “anything …
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Garr Reynolds at Google
PresentationZen guy Garr Reynolds just linked to a video of himself presenting at Google. As Rowan mentioned he’ll be in Wellington and Auckland for the Webstock Autumn series. Worth a look to see his style – which is very very casual.
Tracking your portfolio – Sharesight enters the market
Rod just pointed us to Sharesight – a downunder focused portfolio manager website. The website looks to be yummy goodness – simple to use and so forth. I was initially pretty skeptical though – what use is another portfolio manager when you can do things pretty simply yourself, or with the likes of Yahoo? Yahoo …
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iPhones and Telecom
iPhones may be sold by Telecom? My head is going to explode. However AT&T is also struggling with a similar customer service reputation to Telecom’s, and so the price a telco pays for selling the iPhone (kickbacks to Apple) is the price you have to pay to be associated with Apple.
Mac vs PC – on your browser
Stunning use of the ad-space on hte NYTimes home page. The ad ran for a day only.
Would you let Telecom design your website?
Telecom is launching something – I’m not really sure what it is, but apparently it will be some sort of Business Oriented Internet plan/ISP – where you get bundled internet access, hosting and things like Xero. Business broadband plans will be “slightly differently priced” … I read that as “more expensive”, but gee I’d pay …
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Mac Book Air unboxing
As with Rowan, I always have plenty of half written posts in the draft stage. Here’s a belated MacBook Air unboxing. If you have not purchased an Apple product before, the unboxing can approach a quasi-religious experience. The quality of the black Air box below is something else. Open the box to reveal the impossibly …
Mason training
Close. But not close enough to be the 10,000th and thus the first Burkina Faso Mason Training deciding clicker – at DecisiveFlow designed DoSomeGoodNow. I did try on another browser. And another computer. But DoSomeGoodNow was too smart for that – I guess looking at my router’s IP address.
Lingopal – the blog begins
Shamelessly copying once again – my Cousin Richard’s first entry on the new Lingopal blog. You can see some of the history of Lingopal… while the future of Lingopal is mobile translation. Faux French Pretending to be foreign in the hope of making one seem more attractive to the opposite sex is not an uncommon …
A tale of two friends – the impact of South African flight
This is an article written by Charl du Plessis – a buddy of mine from business school in the USA. He is an expat South African, and is writing about the flight of talent from South Africa. They still have not found equilibrium there, whereas in NZ it seems the flow just might begin to …
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Signature architecture at Wellington Airport
Love it or hate it – it’s great to be in a city where folk are brave enough to build something like this. Nice one Infratil. What a great way to arrive into New Zealand.
Don’t buy tickets from American Express
That’s the only conclusion I can make from an Amex survey that shows Airfares to Europe have increased by 28%, while others in the industry says they have dropped.
Decisive flow’s office
I popped in to Decisive flow – aka as home of Natalie from Simpleandloveable . How cool is their office! a little bit of Ikea in a cool space goes a long way well done Natalie and team.
