oh goody – you can now buy friends… $1 a month per friend and you’ll get 2 comments from each on your mySpace page… The shopping cart is something else, and you can pay with PayPal…. It’s probably a joke site… but I actually think it is so uncool that it’s cool.
Category Archives: Life
Getting good airline seats
British Airways has changed their policy for allocating seats – and I like it. If you pay full fare, are Business or First class, or have gold or silver membership – then you can reserve your seat at the time of booking your ticket. If you have kids with you then you can reserve your …
price your meal
Bid on a meal at priceyourmeal.com and eat out for…. cheaper. Only in Glasgow and soon in Edinburgh. I see this as a sign of eCommerce frothiness akin to pets.com, but slightly less silly. But if it works as a marketing tool then sobeit…
My Portfolio
An unpleasant drop in the US market yesterday, but for me the damage was minimal. Since 2000 I’ve had a relatively neutral approach to the market, and seek alpha by going long on companies I like in sectors I like, and short on the reverse. (I have other money with Gareth Morgan who has a …
Tim Finn
Saw Tim Finn in concert on Monday night. It turns out that it was the first concert of his tour. The band wasn’t totally tight, but it was close, and the musicians were honest, Tim relaxed, the venue intimate and music sublime. I was pleasantly surprised at his range of hits, and the concert was …
Less Haka please
The All Blacks didn’t perform their haka in front of 70,000 fervent rugby fans in Wales. Welsh officials wanted the anthems after the haka, NZ team and officials demurred. So the haka was performed in private in the changing shed, and the Welsh ended up doubly embarrassed (the score was not flattering either) This haka …
Random travel photo
I have far too many photos of my more recent trips. This shows the aftermath of my luggage trying to escape while I was blasting down this road in the very south of Patagonia. It was scary – the box fell off but was held on to the bike by a plastic covered wire rope …
A proctologist may be required to remove the splinters.
An amusing line that missed the editor’s scythe in the Stuff article I complained about above.
Stuff please shut up
I’m unhappy with Stuff’s relatively recent change that automatically kicks off audio commentary when I open certain articles. Perhaps it happens just on my setup (OSX, Safari), as I see a ‘listen to audio clip’ link by the title. I’m willing to give the benefit of the doubt for now, but please fix it…
US built cars less safe….
The USA car industry has seldom put safety first, and never drivability. Turns out the second affects the measurement of the first, as electronic stability control (ESC) was deemed required for those 13 vehicles that maxed out the rating standard in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash tests. The winners include 3 Hondas, and …
Jeans that fit…
Can’t find jeans that fit? zafu.com matches jeans to your body shape and style. It’s not affiliated with any single brand of jeans, and they don’t actually sell jeans. They are claiming a 94% ‘we’ll make you look good’ rate – which is pretty amazing for a recommendation system based on self reporting of body …
Drop cover hold
Much like the drop and cover drill americans went rtghrough in the early cold war, we Kiwis too have our rituals. This aimed at earthquakes though…. I don’t recall it having such a snappy title though – for us schoolkids it was “get under your desks now!”
Surfing from work…
Personal surfing from work is bad, says the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand. While this may be a great debating point for the chamber, Brownlee clearly isn’t thinking this one through. I certaibnkly wouldn’t want ot work for him, nor for any organisation that wanted such micro control over my activities. Better …
Business class gets even better
Singapore airlines have launched their version of the lie-flat standard business class. It is insane – not only lie flat, but look at the size of that seat! It seems to be begging for two people to sleep in it… The bed itself does not seem that wide at the top – it appears that …
that housing bubble is bursting….
That sharp drop on the right of the chart – that’s the sign of a bubble bursting. It is saying “Don’t buy housing, especially ‘investment’ property, and especially in your area, which is ‘different from the rest’.” econobrowser does a great job of monitoring the US housing market, amongst other things. and as the US …
Lance Wiggs 