In the comments to the last post Mr. Annonymous said: “The Biggest problem they’ll have is that this takes 29 characters of javascript to avoid completely $(“span.copyright”).remove(); Or, available as a lovely simple bookmarklet: http://xrl.us/NBRSuperHax” To translate – all we have to do is to drag CopyNBRtxt to your toolbar to make this work, click …
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NBR today put in place copy protection for its articles. Basically the page injects hidden HTML into the text, so that “Princess Wharf developer David Henderson goes back to his creditors today to see if he can win support for plans to repay 4c in the dollar of a $105million debt and keep bankruptcy at …
Michael Hill International’s website requires Silverlight. I was trying to find their annual report. They have shares which one could buy. A quick search shows nothing from MHJ (aside from the dead homepage) appears on Google. This is appalling for investors and customers both.
Henri Fayol was an early management theorist. His Wikipedia entry shows a very simple approach which is largely unchanged today. (I just learned about him (again) today.) His Functions of management are simple: forecasting planning organizing commanding coordinating monitoring (French: contrôler: in the sense that a manager must receive feedback about a process in order …
I’m on a corporate governane course today and tomorrow – run by Massey University on behalf of COMU. COMU is the Crown Ownership Monitoring Unit, which “monitors the government’s investment in companies/entities owned by the Crown, assists with the appointment of directors, and provides performance and governance advice to Ministers.” In the USA corporate governance …
Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2010–2015 [Visual Networking Index] – Cisco Systems At least that’s what Cisco saw during a study on pricing tiers in their last mobile white paper, and in the USA. The Android growth rate is also interestingly high, though the end game is unknown. Also unknown …
Gary Rivlin, writing for Fortune, wrote a super article on Microsoft’s problem. As a hefty hint of the contents the editors placed a large photo of Steve Ballmer under the headline. But more telling to me was this shot later in the article, of Steve in his office. It’s an office stuck in the 90s, …
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I forget sometimes that the sites I read and the stories I follow are not entirely mainstream. Thus while there is a huge group of people that already know about The Khan Academy, there are even more people that don’t. For those that don’t know about Khan, the best thing to do is to watch …
DDos Attacks, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. The largest denial of service attack year peaked at 100 Gbit/s. That’s more than the bandwidth usage out of NZ. Chart Source: Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report 2010, Arbor Networks.
Auckland’s train operator Veolia provides their performance statistics – which is a good thing. The problem is that actual figures themselves, which show just how poor the service actually is: The first column is how often trains are 5 minutes late or less. The second is how often trains arrive at all. So if you …
PowerKiwi’s FlowerPower has donated $5050 to the Government’s Christchurch Earthquake fund. Like everyone we were shocked and dismayed at the devastation and loss, firstly to individuals and families and secondly to businesses and buildings in Canterbury. We are also humbled and proud of Cantabrians, of New Zealanders, of those who were and are visiting here, …
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(Also posted on Pacific Fibre’s blog) The iPhone retina display is awesome – not quite perfect, but incredibly high resolution that you can look at for a long time. It has 326 pixels per inch, and 0.614 total megapixels. That’s not a lot of megapixels when we compare to the latest cameras with well over …
You may or may not have seen the 2011 Family First survey (link borked) on Family Issues. It seems that not all of the answers were published, and I received the following from unnamed sources. If you come across any other missing questions then please post them into comments or send them through. <update: It …
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<UPDATE – I’ve created a page on the tab above – if you send me information then I’ll add to the HALL OF SHAME> Microsoft’s new ie6 countdown site records ie6 usage of just 3.1% in New Zealand. The overall number is now small enough for almost all local sites to ignore. I’m guessing that …
This table is from the Cisco Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast The table shows that each iPhone or Android device uses as much data as 4 ordinary smartphones, and each iPad or tablet uses 5 ordinary smartphones worth of data. But mobile connected laptops are the biggest consumers, and that will only get worse as …
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