A nice little site neatly sums up many of the reasons why I left the USA to come back home. Sure you can make more money, but pretty much everything else is worse. Add into that the knee-jerk responses since 9-11 that make getting stuff done and moving around oh-so-painful, the general atmosphere of partisan …
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Here’s Fishpond‘s latest email to me. I like the company a lot, and they are justifiably doing well, but I find it difficult to buy anything from them as I’ve moved increasingly into an electronic world. In September last year I purchased the latest Kindle, which is smaller, faster and a lot lighter than my …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 – …
I do like this succinct explanation of the Ireland situation.
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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