A good summary of events over at norightturn, along with the output and links to other coverage. Quotes from Simon Collins speech to Journalism Matters The Herald now has a total of 28 general reporters including branch offices and Parliament …At the Herald, there are now no reporters covering what should be major rounds such …
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Kiwisaver: (lack of) investment results explained
From the Gareth Morgan kiwisaver.com site: What’s going on with your money? IRD is holding all contributions made between 1 July 2007 and 1 October 2007. On 1 October 2007, they will transfer the following to KiwiSaver provider schemes: Your contributions Interest on your contributions (at the Commissioner’s rate, currently 6.6% gross) $1,000 kick-start $20 …
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Kiwisaver progress and the market dip
Lot of recent press about Kiwisaver, but I’m missing the real juice – how were those first month results? Well – 92,000 people have signed up to Kiwisaver, which seems a tiny number (4.6%) compared to the working population of 2m or so. However Finance Minister Cullen is happy, figuring that the numbers will grow …
Why I am not excited about Vodafone’s free broadband..
1: 1 GB data cap, though you can sign up to other plans, with the largest 60GB and $2 per extra GB. 2: You need to spend $20 on tolls on your home line. Who uses these anymore? 3: I’m in Perth right now. Actually, to be fair, all and every price decrease for mobile …
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Mongrel Mob win HSEC award
This is pretty special – the Kawerau Mongrel Mob chapter won, through a trust, a contract for rigging and scaffolding at a power plant project, and have been performng very well. Scaffolding is an integral part of safety on a site – you need to to make sure that people working on equipment cannot fall. …
so when should you buy XRO and BFW?
Xero and Burger Fuel both closed at 80 cents on Friday. That a huge drop from the IPO prices of $1, and even further from XRO’s listing price of $1.10. XRO BFW So – after a 20-28% drop, is it time to buy? Let’s deal with Burger Fuel first. No. Not at all. (That’s a …
Xero – the product
I’ve been playing with Xero’s demo, which is well worth looking at. You land on the dashboard, which has a nice summary of what is going on. What is particularly pleasing though, in true Don’t Make Me Think style, is that you are not just looking at information, but you are being asked to do …
Vodafone prices come to haunt them
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Aussie riding
Tempting. So much to see over here, and today was the first real sunny weekend day where I could motorcycle around. I had a ride on an x650 today which was a giggle, but, astonishingly, vibrates more than my KTM 950. Roll on summer.
xtra mail customers are going to Yahoo! mail
The big mail transfer is finally coming… and not before time. Telecom’s somewhat clueless (and expensive) marketers have managed to mangle thing though, for a start using the name “Yahoo!Xtra Bubble” for the new service. Xtra subscribers will get moved to Yahoo Mail (the Beta is great), and will also get Flickr Pro, a 1 …
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Economy class sleeping – emerging reality?
They’ve mentioned this before about this before… and now it looks like AirNZ is going to try it. Economy class bunks. From 2010. “One concept showed berths stacked three-high in a herringbone layout along the sides, and another row stacked down the middle of the cabin. This is something that will allow tourism to NZ …
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Apple Numbers….
I’m playing with Apple’s new OSX spreadsheet – numbers. It is lovely to look at – you can put multiple sheets on a page, and so you can really drive to a good looking layout without worrying about the column sizes in the first table affecting how you lay out a table below. Let’s try …
smh redesign
Looks like smh.com.au has had a brush over, as has The Age. I like it. It is much clearer than before, and the front page is really long. Interestingly enough the top left placement is a photo, which is not standard, and I expected a huge story, but it’s something I really don’t care about. …
famous….in KR
Turns out Mod has plastered my photo all over his nice Brass Monkey article in the latest edition of KiwiRider. Gave me quite the shock when I was reading the mag on the flight back to Perth. It was an awesome Brass though.
Direct Broking versus eTrade – Fees
Fees for trading in NZ stocks seem to be still based on ancient premises – percentage takes and high rates. Here are ASB’s fees – they charge you the same $30 for a $500 or $10,000 transaction. Ditto with Direct Broking, who have a slightly lower ticket clipping rate, but still set the baseline at …
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