My own personal BNZ Sucks saga continues, but there is worse news, via a response to my internal emails: From April 2008, all Internet Banking customers will be required to use NetGuard when logging into Internet Banking. I applied for my damnable Netguard card on the 21st of October (which I blogged about in passing), …
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Redirecting to google.com
Seen on this long thread – a way to stop Google automatically redirecting from Google.com to Google.com.a or Google.co.nz or Google.xxx. This happens to me in Perth when I use Safari 3, but not Firefox. Simply use google.com/ncr Google search results are weighted differently depending upon which url you use.
Tokelau connects everybody
Tokelau’s three atolls have no airport nor harbour and are two days sailing away from Samoa and just two years ago its 1100 Polynesians looked and sounded like they were in another time and space in the past. Now they have free broadband Tokelau is, of course, still part of NZ. It’s a great story. …
We’ve never had it so good
Things are booming in New Zealand – and we have 3.4% unemployment forecast for the September quarter by Westpac, a strong Kiwi dollar and low inflation. I have not seen signs this good in my lifetime. I do worry about US housing and sub prime happenings, froth in the US equity markets and froth in …
Blame the invisible man
Part of the blame for the underinvestment by Telecom, and under0-reaction by the NZ Government has to go on the National Party’s Maurice Williamson: A rare written question from National Party communications spokesman Maurice Williamson to Communications Minister David Cunliffe in May… …asked Mr Cunliffe how New Zealand’s {broadband} ranking compared with its position in …
Is the froth back? Pubs and social networking
Via Micropersuasion: The endless dot-com parties are back. So are the countless trade shows/conferences that regurgitate the same “new paradigms” the last 10 events did – with no end in sight. And yes, the ridiculous BS press releases are flying into my Gmail box. This is why I don’t speak at or attend very many …
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Red Sox 4-0 – win
A great story – and even more amazing is this story on the Red Sox pitcher that bought them home: Don’t feel sorry for yourself, don’t sit at home and think about it,” Lester said of his months of chemo and doubt last winter. “This year, I’ve tried to just have fun, treat it like …
Leopard. The Install in pictures.
Well my cunning plan of having Leopard sent to me failed – it didn’t show up in time before the goods inward at work closed on Friday, and so I went out and purchased another copy at 6:20pm on that night. All is not lost – my parents will now be the proud owners of …
US State – enforcing Iraq postings
The US State Department (foreign service) is enforcing postings in Iraq – there is no turning them down it seems, else you lose your job. That’s scary for 250 or so people who will be informed on Monday, and have just 10 days to reply. The only excuses allowed are medical it seems. I know …
Red Sox 3-0
Can the RedSox actually win another ‘World’ Series championship? The Red Sox had a 1918 to 2004 losing streak that makes the All Blacks woes seem trivial. Intriguingly and cleverly this season the Red Sox bought (for over $100m) on board a star Japanese pitcher – Matsuzaka. Matsuzaka added to the fortunes of the team …
Car carnage
Via wired blog, and from Renault, the car ad we’ve always really wanted to see: Also check out the making of:
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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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 …
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