I’m adding my little google juice to Dave Farrar at Kiwiblog and Fair Go. Earthwise Valley is, astoundingly, still in operation. It deserves to be shut down. Kiwis should picket this place, hostels should paste warnings on their bulletin boards and the fair trading act should be invoked if possible. Here is one visitor’s recommendation: …
Category Archives: NZ Business
The iPad is the best Kindle
It’s hard to be objective about the iPad, which I acquired in San Jose on launch day, yesterday. The reason I bought it (and the reason I suspect I have orders for several more) is to try to figure out just what it is useful for. I already have lots of devices, and the iPad …
iPhone aps on the iPad
What better way to test iPhone apps on the iPad than to check out ones that I am involved with. Here is Lingopal: It’s in full screen (2x) mose, and really is enormous. If you tilt the screen horizontal then the dislay can be read across a decent sized room: Overall Lingpal seems to work …
The iPad and our Kiwi websites
I’ve picked up an iPad (and hopefully several more for some other folks) here in San Francisco, and decided to test it out on a host of sites. Some pass, some fail and some need some work. This is a page mainly full of screenshots, and mainly of interest to those that work on the …
Our power prices have gone up – so switch to us
I’ve been travelling for the last 10 days in the USA – and for another week as well. That, and Pacific Fibre’s launch, explains a little about the paucity of posts here, but it also means I missed out on the recent news about sharply increasing energy future prices. The sharp rise in energy futures …
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Getting the basics right – airline bookings
I’m booking a flight back from Seattle to San Francisco (actually San Jose) and can’t let the opportunity pass to learn from the best – and the worst. Here are some screens that came back after a search for flights this Saturday – conducted just now at 11am or so in a coffee shop in …
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Tablecloth trick
A great video from the folks at BMW. The takeover of once boring but always reliable BMW Motorad by horsepower crazy lunatics continues. These days BMW bikes (depending on the model) have almost too much power but still retain the core BMW values of sturdiness, practicality and safety. All of the BMW’s that I have …
Federated Farmers – Withdraw that press release
A strange piece written by Federated Farmers appeared on infonews just now. It’s aimed at influencing those observing the free trade negotiation happening in Melbourne. It starts out tough: Federated Farmers believes American dairy farmers have nothing to fear but fear itself, if New Zealand and United States enter into a free trade agreement. 1: …
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Electricity company puts prices down!
PowerKiwi, a company that I am a co-founder of, today dropped prices for Flowerpower for most Powershop customers. Pricing for electricity varies by location, annual usage and the type of meters you have, but we are pleased to be able to do these special, pre-winter season, prices. Prices will, sadly, rise during the winter period …
Pacific – Technical details
We’ve posted some of the technical details of the proposed cable over at the Pacific Fibre blog. Check them out
Introducing Pacific Fibre
We’ve just sent out this press release. Pacific Fibre is a big deal – and we have a lot of work to do! Check out PacificFibre.net and follow us: Twitter.com/PacificFibre. Press release: Thursday 11 March, 2010 New Zealand businessmen propose project to build international fibre cable Aim is unlimited high speed broadband for New Zealand …
Theresa’s blogging fodder
It’s sad and essentially irrelevant any more, but the excerpt (not online) from Theresa Gattung’s book printed in Friday’s Business Herald is beautiful blog and commentator fodder. The book emerges this Friday – and it is certain to have more. Gordon Campbell has had a good go, and of course The Standard is not above …
Major changes required
http://www.transport.govt.nz/saferjourneys/Documents/Safer%20Journeys%20First%20Actions.pdf, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I feel sorry for the people at NZTA – when something as simple as changing from a CC restriction to a power/weight restriction requires “major changes” to an IT system. I guess the current system simply states the CC size, whereas the new system will need information on the power …
The case for zero tolerance
A few suggestions on driving emerged from the Safer Journeys first actions paper. While some are controversial – such as raising the minimum age to 16 from 15 – others, like better training for motorcyclists and longer supervised driving periods are good. If we think of being an expert driver is completing the 10,000 hours …
Failing at Ignite Wellington
Tonight, at similar times around the world, are the O’Reilly Ignite sessions. Wellington is hosting one, and I’m last up after an otherwise impressive line of speakers.(scroll down the homepage to see the speakers and topics) I’ll be speaking on the topic of Failure – and why it is right to set yourself up to …
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