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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Stunning use of the ad-space on hte NYTimes home page. The ad ran for a day only.
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 …
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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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.
I also caught up with a few folk – including Bernard, who is now blogging and vblogging at Interest.co.nz. Here’s a sneak behind the curtain… literally. Bernard writes the scripts himself, then records them in front of a green curtain screen. He can even do this from home if he wants, but this was from …
Stunning NYTimes article about Vista – it seems that Microsoft employees and board members knew that Vista was, well, not so good. There’s even a class action suit…. “Last month, Judge Marsha A. Pechman granted class-action status to the suit, which is scheduled to go to trial in October. (Microsoft last week appealed the certification …
The housing crash is cascading around the world, and the dire predictions are coming true. Here’s the latest chart from The Economist – check out Ireland on the bottom. That’s a crash, not a “balanced slump”. Meanwhile Trade Me just surpassed 70,000 property listings, on the back of signing up one of the last few …
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Falafulu Fisi asks an excellent question to the previous post on Auckland Airport: “Aren’t both Auckland Airport & Telecom private companies? Why would you want to say that the government is an interventionist regarding the CPPIB attempt to buying shares in the Auckland Airport but not saying the same thing about Telecom? I am a …
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Not that I have it yet, but Xobni is a very cool add-on to Outlook that gives you handy things like threaded conversations and stats for everyone you communicate with. What a great idea! Their premise is that we have all created far more MB of information through our email than through our web presence. …
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Joseph Juran, author of the immense textbook “Quality Control Handbook” (or Quality Management Handbook) has died, after an excellent innings of 103. Juran bough QA to the Japanese, and they loved it – the Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, Lean and so forth can all be traced to his work. He also tried to introduce …
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Warren Buffet’s yearly missive is out. Essential reading for anyone interested in investing. Here are some tasty snippets: “You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out – and what we are witnessing at some of our largest financial institutions is an ugly sight. It’s better to have a part interest …
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Natalie at SimpleandLoveable laments the passing of a great service into a lousy one – after a shoddy website redesign by DigitalMax. Now I briefly used DigitalMax two or so years back, so I went to the DigitalMax site to see how bad it now is. Let’s start with the homepage, an ask the age-old …
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It’s pretty easy to ignore reading the NZHerald (or whatever site) when this happens: I browse in tabs, so I just close the NZHerald tab and move on. It is easier to do that then to move the mouse down to the close (X) button on the NetRatings pop in. Net Ratings could fix this …
Lance Wiggs 