Man tries to burn campervan pair – National – NZ Herald News, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. There are menus and then there is this ridiculous half page affair from NZHerald. For people browsing by scrolling down with a touchpad or scrolling mouse the menu bloats out over the article text as the mouse pointer hits …
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Lock in a 36% price increase from Mercury Energy
I’m actually shocked that Mercury energy have the cheek to do this scam. They are sending out notices to people (families) offering to lock in electricity prices for the next three years. They also say you could win free power for 3 years: The problem is that people will be signing up for …
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How to be an Angel
This is exactly what Angel investors should be doing No lengthy agonising, no distracting the team with over-indulgent due diligence and no inch thick documents and negotiations through lawyers. Simply find a great idea with a solid team and put the money on the table. My ambition is to raise a fund to do this …
Give prisoners the basics at least
Inmates in 10 prisons in the Georgia, USA coordinated a strike that lasted a week, and inclusive of all of the usually conflicting groups (Bloods, Crips, Muslim brotherhood and so forth). While the article in deathandtaxes raises the point that the mainstream media missed this strike, the, well, striking thing to me is the reasonableness …
Poorly surveyed
I got this email just now, it’s so ugly I thought I’d follow the link to see how bad the survey was. I took the extra time to take pictures and write comments. The landing page as not too bad, except I couldn’t care less about adding to my nano collection, and suspect many …
How readable is your site?
Google has a new readability feature, so why not check a few local sites? Here are some, in decreasing order of ‘Basic’ readabilty. Proving something about left wing academics, tough I am not sure what. Overall very consistent in readability – not too simple, not too hard. Complex matters, again presented consistently. Seems right – …
Crisis explained
I do like this succinct explanation of the Ireland situation.
This is dangerous NZ Police
This is an unsafe act. The police officer appears to be standing in a part of a lane that is closing off while traffic is whizzing by at 80-100kmph. He is behind his bike, which will turn into a projectile if hit by a vehicle that is leaving it just a little late to merge …
Pretty good education NZ
In an article in the NYTimes that focuses mainly on Shanghai’s stellar results we find a table, and in that table we find NZ’s education test results. This is the PISA test of 15 year olds. I’ve often said that NZ has a good average education, while the USA has a much wider distribution, and …
New Lingopal
I got Apple spam yesterday. We’ve added phonetics, sharing via Twitter/Facebook/email and copy/paste to the application. So now you’ll be able to tweet some of the ridiculous Lingopal phrases. Check out the changes on the Lingopal blog
Neither beautiful nor usable
Seen the Review your Website page before? Wondering what it is all about? Wondering why it ever existed and was so ugly? It was an experiment. I put the Review your Site page up to see whether it would be found, whether anyone would contact me, and whether anyone would actually pay me to criticise …
NZGirl is not safe
Perhaps it’s because the site is aimed at teenagers, and they are asking teenagers to show their breasts to everyone. Or perhaps it is because they are saying some breasts are better than others – when breast cancer folks are very careful to avoid that <update – this was reported by 3News, but @jenene says …
Telecom – why not walk in our shoes
recharge prepay ipad telecom – Google Search, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. This is me googling to find out how to recharge my iPad prepay SIM card. The link I used to have to Telecom’s site no longer works, and so I sought help. Last time I got the answer from twitter. Telecom has a great …
That’s not friendly Air New Zealand
Card Payment Fee – Bookings – Air New Zealand, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I’d rather Air NZ admitted it and just charged us slightly more for fares. This card payment fee is ludicrous, as essentially every private traveller will incur the fee. It’s another line on the statement, makes us annoyed when we see it, …
NBN cost benefit notes
There will be 7 million new fibre connected premises in the world this year, for a total of 50 million up from 43 million. Most of these will be in Asia. Not many in the scheme of things, but this will be an interesting number to track in the next 20 years. “The NBN will …
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