Laws against talking on your phone on board commercial Us domestic aircraft are being pushed by US Congress. It seems some Congress-critters are upset at very loud and sometimes personal phone calls from people on planes sitting near them when flying back and forth to Congress. The Noise Airplanes (or aeroplanes) are very very noisy …
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Great news – Delta is going to offer WiFi on all domestic (USA) flights. Not so smart – sadly they see it as a revenue opportunity rather than a service, and will charge ($10 for up to 3h flights, $14 for longer flights) for it. I find it amusing that upmarket hotels typically charge (a …
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I’m moving my stuff and internet around the block here in Fremantle, and so of course I’ll make sure the internet service is provided by iinet – who have been excellent an seem to get it and even read my blog. Well – not so fast -they have some work to do. More to the …
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You may have seen this already. It looks like the plane wasn’t chocked (at least not properly), and with a gap opening up under passengers feet that was over 2 meters high (3 actually) this was a potentially fatal incident. It should be recorded as such – it’s a near miss – a zero barrier …
Not PC bemoans the highly paid Government sector. So does anti-dismal. I disagree. The alternative to highly paid bureaucrats is lowly paid bureaucrats. Lowly paid bureaucrats are far far worse than highly paid ones. Here are three resons why: Lack of talent – why work for Government when you can get more money working in …
Who knew? Turns out Mia Farrow has been travelling to Darfur, Chad and CAR for a while now. Here’s NYTimes columnist Nicholas Krstof, who has been there a few times himself, and been one of the main people that has bought the plight to the attention of the US people and Government, on Mia: Several …
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The Olympics is pure, about simple athleticism, where nationalistic politics are put aside and we all enjoy the quest for sporting perfection. Right. The NYTimes has a really cool Medal Count Tool, which shows the rise and fall of countries in the medal tally over the years. Watch Australia – they get out-medalled (especially gold) …
It used to be hard, but now anyone can find out if anyone is a criminal. At least in the USA. Criminal Searches has made it easy. This stuff has been online for a while, but CS is the first ad supported, free to search model. I checked, and it seems that I am clean. …
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Outside the local Burger King, during the day, some yobbos left this mess under their table. I don’t blame the Resto as it was cleaned up immediately by a bewildered employee. I do mark it up as yet another point against Perth and it’s denizens. {Update: this was posted using WordPress’s iPhone application, which is …
Typing away merrily, and my foot nudged a leg of the rather ponderous dining room table that I use(d) for a computer desk here in Fremantle. It was like a motorcycle crash in slow motion. The legs crumbled away in turn, 30 inch monitor sliding towards the edge and everything moving at once. Coffee cup …
At the bottom of the Wolrd Internet Project – NZ Report are some nice cross tab charts. I find these interesting not just for the internet data, but also for some of the other insights. 1: Wealthier people spend more time with their family, Pakeha spend the least time with family, Males (self reported remember!) …
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The World Internet Project New Zealand report came out. Worth a look as it is part of a great world-wide project, and will hopefully provide great trends going forward.. Sadly the data is old. Really old in internet time. The WIPNZ survey was conducted in September-October 2007. Why does it take 8 months to analyse …
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It seemed like a great idea at the time. Sign folk up to mortgages, sell the mortgages to another financial player who then bundles the mortgage with thousands of others and sells various risk based slices. It failed in three different ways – two of which we know about, but one which is just emerging. …
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I’m reading “Immigrants – your county needs them“, by Philippe LeGrain. Fascinating. I’ve been an advocate of open borders for a long time – and I mean truly open, anyone can live where they like (subject to limitations on criminals and the like). So it seems is Philippe and a host of economists. Turns out …
Horrible news from the inquest of Chocolate Fish landlord Adrianus Johanus Vlug, who the coroner found committed suicide after feeling pressure from “rather uninformed bloggers” about the rent increases at the chocolate fish. From that point onward, a series of Facebook blog articles appeared mostly condemning the landlord for having a ‘greedy’ attitude with respect …
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Lance Wiggs 