which is kinda frightening considering I’m currently working in a cell-phone free environment helping tweak a chemical process driven plant… 71% Geek
Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
Chalkie replies to Gareth Morgan…
Chalkie clearly reads blogs, and has replied to Gareth Morgan’s rebuttal to her article on his website. The original Chalkie article is now on Stuff, and you can read Chalkie’s remarks below (& in the comments of the previous post) Jenny Ruth “My primary source of income is not from writing for savings industry-funded trade …
Another Xero competitor: Larry Ellison
Netsuite, in which Oracle’s Larry Ellison owns 61.1% and controls 74.1%, is about to IPO. The company” “offers Web-based services that let small and medium-size companies handle tasks such as accounting and keeping track of customers.” It’s basically SAP/Peoplesoft/Seibel/Oracle for small and medium sized businesses with less than 1000 employees. and it is, like Xero, …
The battle continues: Gareth Morgan, life insurers and Kiwisaver
Gareth Morgan comes out guns blazing again – I’m enjoying watching the exchange. First up – GMK have published the ‘fan mail‘ from the life insurance companies. Along with the insurance company’s ripostes, Gareth has written short rebuttals. AP’s Greg Camm: “If there were a sign on a beach saying “Sharks in the water” you …
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On Perth…
Three cheery headlines this morning in theWest – Perth and Western Australia’s dominant newspaper: Five Stabbed in Nightclub Brawl That was in Subiaco, where I am planning to live. It’s the best ‘cosmopolitan’ suburb around, and everyone is telling me to stay there. The good news (apparently) is that is was not gang related. One …
More Fuel for the Burger Fuel fire
Garry Sheeran in the Sunday Star Times covers the high risk nature of the Burger Fuel IPO. It’s a balanced article, with commentry about analysts looking atthe numbers, and quotes from founder Chris Mason. But it is the last line of the article that is interestng. It’s not realy posible to tell where it came …
Record production year… for Heroin
I guess that the Afghanistan occupation isn’t doing do well. That lowest year ever in 2001 was due to the Taliban, not the US invasion post 9/11.
NZ Banks blame you
Slashdot is covering Computerworld‘s scoop of the proposed NZ banking code of practise that demands to see users PC’s in the event of a disputed transacton. Slashdot readrers don’t like it. at all. and neither do I. From TFA: “Liability for any loss resulting from unauthorized Internet banking transactions rests with the customer if they …
Google maps…
..now with draggable directions. Amazing – who can keep up with these guys?
The picture above
I’ve had a few folk ask about the picture above. It was taken near Amersfoot, in South Africa. I was on the BMW off road course, run by the amazing Jan de Toit from Country Trax. The course starts with learning the correct technique for picking these monstrous 1200cc bikes up, includes getting those things …
on getting it done
A message to Garcia is a delightful little story – which perhaps belabors the point a little later on, but worth a read of the first screen. It’s about taking responsibility and getting stuff done. These days a fable like this would be published as some sort of hokey business book.
ASA pings Love Calculator – but it is still out there
<update – I’ve changed the title of this entry from “Some, not all, Love calculator ads closed down by ASA” to the above. I had originally read the decision as hitting ads, but it was an ad (or claim) on the actual love calculator website that was deemed at fault.> The ASA has reacted to …
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Fixing the Telecom train wreck
I didn’t know this, but it explains a lot: “When Theresa Gattung was named as new chief executive at Telecom in October 1999, the shares closed at $8.61. Yesterday, after news that British Telecom executive Paul Reynolds will replace Gattung, the shares closed at $4.48” It’s not like this is a hard job. The share …
Latest xkcd
I’m addicted to xkcd. please help.
Googling ‘Jew’
Search for “Jew” on google, and you’ll get a link to this: google.com/explanation It seems that ‘Jew’ is used by people prejudiced against Jewish people, and Jewish people themselves refer to “Judaism”, “Jewish” or “Jewish People”. What’s nice is that Google has not played with their algorithm to artificially manipulate the results, but simply pointed …
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