1: John Key’s speech was not as bad as all that. The consensus around the political bloggers is that he is not doing enough, but I feel that we in NZ are actually doing pretty well (versus other countries) at the moment, and making dramatic changes to the balance of the economy could create wildly …
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Techday joins the spammers
I received this on Friday from techday.co.nz: I didn’t know I had a relationship with Techday and neither was there an address of the sender included. So I clicked the Unsubscribe link and arrived here: It’s a website that I have never been to before, and I certainly don’t want to login or register. Now …
Incredibly fantastic and great
Missed Steve Jobs and the iPad introduction? Rest assured thanks to Neil Curtis you can catch up on all of the adjectives in under 3 minutes. Found via TUAW, and yes the website of Neil is a bit different.
It seems BNZ’s Xero personal will allow importing
From this screenshot over on Xero’s blog we see a National Bank account is reported in amongst the BNZ ones in a beta test of Zero Personal: Actually the logo is for Kiwibank, while the text refers to National Bank. Either way Xero and BNZ are telling us that they’d like for external acccounts to …
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Up the river
Rowan’s put a few photos up as well – we spent a great day on the Whanganui river yesterday. I’ve enjoyed the river road for years, but this was the first time on the river itself. For me one it is now one of the iconic New Zealand destinations. Click on the pictures for larger …
Locking in customers with Xero and Heaps
It seems to be an emerging meme – comments in the post about Kiwibank’s Heaps and BNZ’s Xero Personal are worried that banks will create lock-in using personal financial management products. This comment is typical: Ben Lilley January 28, 2010 at 1:50 pm I really hope banks aren’t going to start using tools like Xero …
No cheques sorry L V Martin
Dear L V Martin & Sons Hi I’d really like to pay your invoice. Unfortunately I don’t have a cheque book – not for years now. Please put on your invoice at least one alternative method of payment. Many thanks Frustrated of Wellington P.S. It would have been better if you’d actually fixed my dish …
New BNZ banking system is coming
Internet Banking Login, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. It looks like BNZ is creaking forward into the modern era with a new banking homepage. Of interest is not so much the re-skin, but the “We’ll be adding great new features to internet banking”. That would be Xero personal I hope.
How to win customers back – the 4 difficult steps
How long does it take to bring back a customer that has had a series of bad experiences? And what do you need to do to get them back? In Simon Grigg‘s case – about 8 years, and a heck of a lot. Let’s look at the lessons learned, and I’m also going to draw …
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Why is the Kindle sold in Zimbabwe, East Timor but not New Zealand?
I’ve written before about Apple’s poor attention to international people – those that travel and live in multiple countries. It’s one of the reasons that I am trying not to get too excited about the forthcoming tablet. The tablet appears to be aiming at bringing media to your knees – meaning books, movies and games …
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Sikuli Script
Project SIKULI, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Cool – here is a really simple way to write scripts – for OSX, Windows or Linux. (Download.) From MIT comes Sikuli script, where you just take screenshots of the buttons that you want the script to click. The picture above is of the resulting script – with those …
The Independent makes me mad
Each week I read The Independent, and each week some articles in it make me mad. This week I’m writing about it. Sadly none of the articles are online yet. Air New Zealand and the Commerce Commisson The News The Commerce Commission is bringing criminal charges against Air New Zealand for price fixing. It all …
That’s why I chose Yale
Amazing. Could any institution in New Zealand dream of doing something like this? They walk the line between sincere cheese and self deprecating irony beautifully.
Leave me alone Gareth Morgan
Well done GMI. If you follow a recent advertisement for Gareth Morgan Investments and do the 10 Second test promo (five questions), click on “I’m not convinced – Tell me more” then you’ll get the screen above “Leave me alone” is a wonderful way to acknowledge that this was a promotion, that we are all …
Air New Zealand is the best – here are some reasons
A selection of reasons why Air New Zealand won the Airline of the Year in the Air Transport World magazine awards. Most of these refer to posts made here over the past three years, and the overarching reason is simply that Air New Zealand is a very well run business. They have kept their fares …
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