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Category Archives: Life
Lingopal – the blog begins
Shamelessly copying once again – my Cousin Richard’s first entry on the new Lingopal blog. You can see some of the history of Lingopal… while the future of Lingopal is mobile translation. Faux French Pretending to be foreign in the hope of making one seem more attractive to the opposite sex is not an uncommon …
A tale of two friends – the impact of South African flight
This is an article written by Charl du Plessis – a buddy of mine from business school in the USA. He is an expat South African, and is writing about the flight of talent from South Africa. They still have not found equilibrium there, whereas in NZ it seems the flow just might begin to …
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Decisive flow’s office
I popped in to Decisive flow – aka as home of Natalie from Simpleandloveable . How cool is their office! a little bit of Ikea in a cool space goes a long way well done Natalie and team.
Being back home
Despite a wet welcome back to NZ… It was great to be home – albeit for a week. You don’t get this sort of green in Perth.. nor can you walk to work through the forest made famous by Peter Jackson and co. though this missing guy poster was scary. <update: and horribly ended tragically. …
Why intervention is needed for Telecom and not for Auckland
Falafulu Fisi asks an excellent question to the previous post on Auckland Airport: “Aren’t both Auckland Airport & Telecom private companies? Why would you want to say that the government is an interventionist regarding the CPPIB attempt to buying shares in the Auckland Airport but not saying the same thing about Telecom? I am a …
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Juran, founder-father of Lean, six sigma, TPM, pareto analysis dies
Joseph Juran, author of the immense textbook “Quality Control Handbook” (or Quality Management Handbook) has died, after an excellent innings of 103. Juran bough QA to the Japanese, and they loved it – the Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, Lean and so forth can all be traced to his work. He also tried to introduce …
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Juha Exposed
Separated at birth? or just related. We find out a ittle more about who is behind that mask: Juha/Bach is blogging over at Stuff…
On managing workload
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Linked in finally starts moving
With the most elite network – connected through business relationships – linked in has incredible potential. That potential has drifted somewhat recently as the competition (namely Facebook) moved well ahead. Well – finally a redesign, and a move to some web 2.0 slickness, making, for example, it much easier to upload a profile photo. But …
one in 99 USA adults is behind bars
Not only are US Prisons terrifying, . , but now we hear that 1 in 99 of the US adult population is behind bars. “Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 Hispanic adults is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in 15 black adults is, too, as …
What’s cool and what’s uncool
IRD Cool Vodaphone uncool when did it go so very very wrong?
Judgment Day is here: negative housing equity
SST reports on several stories of negative equity situations happening in Auckland. That’s when the value of a house is less than the money owed to the bank. “One home had mortgages to ASB for $723,000 and Finance Assist for $150,000. It sold for $535,000. … “The mortgage was to Property Finance Securities (in receivership) …
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Sayōnara Kiri te Kanawa
Yes it is obvious that Kiri is in a different league to Hayley Westenra, but for Kiri to say: “They are the new fakes for the new generation coming through but they can only perform with a microphone and they’ve basically never have any formal training. and “I’ve had a 40-year career but these people, …
Lance Wiggs 