I watched amazed at this lifting operation in Auckland last night. From where I was watching it appeared that the load went over the head of the workers and drivers several times, which is a fatal risk if anything goes wrong with the load. The load itself was often very cumbersome, long and skinny and …
Category Archives: NZ Business
Five reasons not to auto-DM on Twitter
(With apologies to those not on Twitter) I followed back a lot of people this weekend, and received several auto- direct messages in return. They say things like “thanks for the follow – look at me/my website/my company.” These messages are rude and make me annoyed, and here is why: They waste time as they …
Telecom Broadband meter is a bit short
Telecom may want to think about upgrading their broadband meter. My Orcon connection (over Chorus cabinetised lines) is a lot faster than their “Extreme!” speed of about 2.5 Megabits/sec. This is, of course, a good problem to have, and a symptom of ever increasing speeds. Fibre to the home will give well over ten times …
We love Flowerpower, do you like?
We at Powerkiwi love our Flowerpower product, and so we have created a Facebook page to have some fun. For now we are trying to build up to a decent number of people who like the page so that we can start offering sme fun deals. Therefore we are giving away $100 of free credit …
Your tweets cost money
Read David MacGregor’s novel: Vanishing Act for free… – davidmacgregor’s posterous, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. A snapshot of Dave MacGregor’s blog entry giving away free copies of his book shows interesting implications. Almost everyone choses not to tweet the post and get a book.
Back to Vodafone, sorry Telecom
Another Telecom store experience just now, this time on Queen street. The good news is that they have a SIM cutter that will quickly turn a standard SIM card into a micro-SIM. The bad news is they were reluctant to pull it out of the drawer, and were certainly not taking responsibility for doing the …
Is it here or not?
Apple – iPad – The best way to experience the web, email & photos, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Apple’s NZ store is showing the iPad as available – but there is no mechanism to buy. I guess that means it is not available. All, I’m sure, will be sorted by the time you read this.
InternetNZ: 5 questions
Dave Farrar asked each of the 12 candidates for the 5 InternetNZ councilor spots to answer some questions. I’m one of the candidates, and as they were good questions I’m posting the answers here. What do you consider the (up to) three biggest threats to InternetNZ’s vision of an open and uncaptureable Internet? Insufficient infrastructure …
Well we know where we are going
Well we know where we are going But we can’t see which gate it is. I cannot read the destination on the departure gates in Auckland domestic airport until I am quite close to the gate. This is frustrating. So why not increase the size of the type for the destination on the gate screens …
No customers thanks
Seen inside the BNZ on lower Queen St, Auckland.
How to get rid of stock
A great daily deals experiment by MightyApe kicks off today – a marathon. They selling 3500 items, but deals are valid for only 10 minutes. I assume, and I hope for their sake, that the prices will be ridiculously cheap. Here is the first installment. Nice simple design. We shall see.
Apple increases market capacity by 12 times
During the weekend y I found out about Sidhe’s iPhone apps – marketed under the Pik Pok brand. They are a series of games that use a flicking motion to kick a ball – with Rugby, Football (European), Football (US) and AFL versions. Simple and fun. However after I downloaded them they were nowhere to …
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Never forget to user test
Install Office 2008 12.2.5 Update, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Microsoft just keeps getting it wrong on usability. Here what happened when I updated Microsoft Office on the Mac this evening with the latest fixes. After running the update program (top, background), it downloaded and ran the updater itself (bottom). That program then popped up an …
Place function before fashion – Mons Royale
Via Hazel Philips at NBR I read about local company Mons Royale – who make merino underwear aimed at boarders. Rather tellingly the title of the article was Fashion before Function. The clothing range is a good idea – practical merino underclothing with a bit of colour and splash, along with stying that appeals (hopefully) …
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Qantas media awards for blogging
I entered the best blog category for the Qantas media awards and didn’t make the finals. Here were the four posts I put up, with apologies to Russell Brown, Telecom XT and NBR for opening old wounds. Telecom XT Outage – Unacceptable Why I don’t read Public Address NBR’s performance since the subscription wall was built …
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