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Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
A response from BNZ
The BNZ please just pay my rent saga continues Now they are asking me to sign up for the stupid security card (which I had done 2 dats prior) and to send a confirmation fax to get this particular payment through. Nope. International faxes are just too hard these days. I don’t even plug my landline …
BNZ doesn’t get it. Time to change banks
I’m renting a place here in Fremantle for 3-4 months, and my first rental payment is due. I dutifully (ok a few days late as we had not sorted out dates) send a Telegraphic Transfer request via BNZ’s internet banking email system. This is something I do quite a lot, with the last one being …
Know all of Trade Me’s secrets – and get paid for it
Want to get deep inside Trade Me’s engine to understand how it works? Then apply for Trade Me’s Manager – Strategy and Analytics role, and you will know all. Well – you’ll be exposed to the data fire hose anyway, and you’ll use any insights you find to help grow Trade Me. This was the …
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Is WordPress in play?
PaidContent seems to think so, though the price WordPress reportedly will command ($150-300m) seems cheap for what is the dominant platform for serious bloggers.
How are you finding me?
So now we know what you are reading (it’s all about teenage love calculation), but how are you coming to this blog? Well – here are the top search terms used over the last year to find posts on this site: 1: “xtra mail” (yup. I can’ believe it either) 2:”calculate the name of your …
What are you reading here? top 11, bottom 3
So – this blog has been around for almost a year now – the first post was on November 9th last year. It’s been a fun journey, and although statistics are fickle things it seems that about 2-300 people are visiting each day. That’s pretty amazing – I had no idea I had that many …
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RSS Explained
I’ve just added a couple of links on the top right to make it easy to subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed. What’s RSS? Well here’s a fun low tech explanation of what RSS is, and how to use a reader, such as Google Reader. it does get a bit long, but it’s worth seeing …
Capital One stumbles
Capital One has long had a reputation for employing smart people, and for being the best at segmenting the credit card market – targeting the right products at the right people. Well – not such good news, via the Washington Post: Capital One Financial of McLean posted its first quarterly loss ever, from the expense …
NZ’s Superannuation fund ranks highest
Good news, from the WSJ blog: Ted Truman, a former top Federal Reserve and Treasury staffer now at the Peterson Institute for International Economics think tank in Washington, with a scoreboard that ranks 32 sovereign wealth funds from 28 countries on 25 elements in four categories — structure, governance, transparency and accountability and behavior. His …
Expedia.co.nz launches – Good or Bad?
Expedia – the world’s largest travel agent, and a site I used a lot, err, last century, has finally arrived in New Zealand. Here’s a quick review. That’s a mere 11 years after being founded by Microsoft in 1996 – nice to know we are important. It’s a classic case of the big boys discounting …
Dump dumping laws now (and don’t buy Croxley paper)
So Office Max (enterprise value US$4 billion), subsidiary Croxley Stationery, wins a NZ anti dumping case against 15 stationary importers from five South East Asian countries. Apparently selling stuff in New Zealand for cheaper than other markets is bad. The law is an ass – I’d rather have that cheaper stationary thank you, and I’d …
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NZ is 18th least taxed country in OECD
what a difference a headline can make. Both Stuff and NZHerald went with “NZ is 13th most taxed country in the OECD”. The OECD has 30 members – something that took me – oh – about 15 seconds to find. Or you could look at the handy chart int he NZHerald article.
eBay results – up and down
eBay reported a loss of a huge $936m – due to the recent huge write-down of Skype value. However otherwise theu showed some good signs, and some not so good signs. Good – PayPal made $470m of revenue – up 35% Not so good: Auctions (marketplaces) listings fell 5%, and GMV (the value of stuff …
OSX Leopard: Top 10 reasons to upgrade or switch
The top ten cool new features in OSX Leopard – in ascending order. This is very much biased to my needs, so your mileage may vary. 1: Video Recording Use Photo Booth to make movie clips. Capture those precious moments and send them to your friends in an email message. You can even choose a …
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