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Category Archives: Life
where are the intellectuals?in NZ?
Also in the IFR, Chris Trotter reviews a book by Laurence Simmons belaboring the dearth of NZ intellectualism. Without reading the book I’d suggest that Professor Simmons starts reading in the new frontier of intellectualism. He may not see the turgidness of ancient times, but the new wave of influencer’s are now online and blogging. …
Search with Kevin
Hot from the US – the new new “de rigueur” search engine for the in crowd… Kevin Federline’s search engine.
eBay Standard Browsers include Safari
Someone gets it – eBay’s recommended browser types are IE 6 or later, Firefox 1.5 or later and, bless them, Safari 2 or later. Safari is the standard browser on the Mac, and an increasing number of people use Macs. Moreover those Mac people tend to be early adopters and (sooner or later) evangelists. If …
LanceWiggs.com
I (finally) changed the name of this blog to lancewiggs.com, so you 15 loyal readers (Hi Mum) can have slightly less weary fingers. The old elevatorfactoids.wordpress.com links and bookmarks will still work apparently. When I added my name to the front page the googlability* of the site went up sharply. So now let’s see what …
lancewiggs.com exists
lancewiggs.com now exists and redirects to here – so if you are one of the 14 loyal supporters then you may now find it easier to spread the word… I’ll rename the entire site presently…
Technology versus law: incandescent lights ok after all
Seems that GE will manage to develop incandescent lights that are as efficient as fluorescent ones. Perhaps lawmakers, as Slashdot points out, should stick to mandating efficiency levels rather than technologies.
Fighting economics and banning sin….
You just cannot fight economics and you cannot ban sin – in the long run stupid moves like trying to ban online gambling in NZ will fade away, as it is dead simple to just set up a site offshore…
Food miles
New blog Celsias makes a point about food grown locally being more beneficial to the environment as it reduces ‘food miles’. A catchy phrase, but one that avoids much of inputs into the energy or carbon balance of providing food, as he alludes to. To be fair to farmers in NZ, for example, the total …
London vs DC airport transport
London. Tube to Paddington station, up and down one flight of stairs and onto the Heathr0w Express. A walk for about 800m and then the check-in counter. No queue for check-in, no squabbles about bag weight, fast -tracked through security and then a range of excellent shops. A quick pop-in to the Virgin lounge and …
VDay
From the ever-amusing xkcd
On London
It’s only been a year since I was here last, but several things struck me as I wandered around London today. Mayor Ken Livingston has been transformational – bike lanes, and traffic congestion charges make for less pollution, while Trafalgar Square is vastly improved. The section of road in front of the national gallery was …
Living in NZ
So nice to live in a liberal country where a politician marrying his boyfriend (civil union) is essentially non-news…. On the downside, professional incomes are very low – here is a job requiring an MBA that pays just $75,000, or USD$51,000. (It’s nice that Trade Me Jobs shows the salary – it really helps identify …
ego surfing and SEO
A couple of days back I added my name to the subtitle of this blog- and the result was fast. This website is now the top link when I egosurf, whereas a few days back it was languishing at about #20 in the results.
Scarcity in sport
Great comment from the economist blog – American Football is much more profitable (and popular) than NBA & Baseball because of the scarcity of the games. It’s true – the season is relatively short, the build up is to one event only, and the popularity of the Superbowl is undimished. Those that are foisting more …
Lance Wiggs 