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Category Archives: Life
Another Motorcyclist off to South America
I’m going to start getting really jealous soon. Annette is either a Kiwi living in the UK or English with Kiwi connections. She’s on a trial ride right now around New Zealand, and then off to Argentina just before Christmas – riding a BMW of course….
Reselling tickets takes a step backwards
Two disturbing articles today – one that eBay UK will not allow reselling of tickets to the giant Concert for Diana, and the second that New Zealand is introducing laws restricting re-sales of tickets to “big events” to a maximum of face value. People – you cannot fight economics, and you will lose in the …
Shooting
It’s good to live in a country where policemen get hauled over the coals for firing a pistol at an inappropriate moment – even when nobody is harmed. Make sure everybody conforms to the law, but start with those that do the enforcing.
not cricket
I happened to see live the cowardly NZ dismissal of Muttaih Muralitharan, who was run out after he turned to celebrate his fellow batter’s century. The game may have pivoted on this run-out. Our cricketers should be ashamed – this is under-arm bowling stuff and is, of course, just not cricket. I put this up …
French bloggers
apparently one out of three people in France blogs. incroyable! I wonder how the Google staffer backed this assertion up.. IHT (clipped from NYTimes) has a bit more, saying 60% of French internet users visited a blog in May 2006, and 12% of those online in France had then created a blog. That’s a sea …
latest demands from Christmas tree kidnappers
the tree saga continues… with an amateurish news video taunting the Trust and Safety team. Sadly it does not tug at the heart string as the previous video did – perhaps the tree is complicit in the kidnapping…
Watch radiation detector – not a toy?
A watch-radiation dectector attracts mirth on gizmodo, and perhaps justifiably so. However considering the difficulty that various authorities are having installing industrial scale radiation detectors in airports and ports, perhaps issuing a portable detector to all staff could a cheaper alternative. It also changes the security paradigm from relying on technology run by barely trained …
Still no word…
…on the fate of the Trust and Safety Christmas tree. The kidnappers have promised to slowly de-branch the tree if their demands for home cooked produce are not met… Disturbing. Very disturbing.
Apple pre-paid revenue
Rod Drury asks what if Apple had major pre-paid revenue. They do have some – from the iTunes music cards. The cards are great for gifts, and also if you want to get content not available here – such as TV shows and movies. Whenever I’m in the US I pick up a card and …
shoe sizer
so simple. A wonderful use of technology – 6 cameras and some smarts combine to give an accurate 3d map of feet – which lets shoe stores sell more…
Christmas tree kidnapping
The Trade Me Trust and Safety team Christmas tree was kidnapped – they received this rather disturbing video a day later…
Latest DC Jeep accessory
Thanks to Steve Markham for the picture….
a much better day
Los Locos
A couple of loco locals are about to set off on a US to Rio trip – I’m jealous. here is some of what they are in for….
Lance Wiggs 