DSC06546, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Adam and Nathan flew over the the tracks on their 400’s, with Adam’s road tires resulting in some pretty spectacular slides along the way. I was behind on a heavier bike and much lower skill-set.
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Motorcyling: Stuck at the river 2
DSC06558, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. I wanted to test the bike out and so I found a lovely place to lay it down in a controlled fashion… Well – actually I was pretty tired at this point and had very little mud mojo left. Worse still the others had to help me right the bike …
Motorcyling: Stuck at the river
DSC06553, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Here’s the Avon River – but sadly at this point, late in the day with the road home in sight, we had to turn back. The rover was well above the air intake for each of our bikes. Thanks adam for walking the river – and subsequently freezing for the …
Motorcycling: we had a plan…
DSC06528, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. but sadly it was pouring with rain, so the plan washed away
Motorcycling: The idea was to test the bike out
DSC06538, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Here’s the kitted out KTM adventure it is on a simple river crossing.
Motorcycling: Off to Avon river
DSC06524, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. Adam (pictured) and Nathan dragged their 400’s and me to the Avon river region North of Perth.
Goodbye NZ, nice to have helped, but I gotta go
So David Skilling does a fantastic job leading the NZ institute, influencing massive policy changes in saving (Kiwisaver), economy, climate change and broadband. So now that his 4 year stint is up, what does he do? Leave. Yup – David is off to Singapore. It sums everything that is right and wrong with NZ very …
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Apple is cool, but their partners are not
Apple does everything they can to make dealing with them a great experience. But they are let down by the little things, and by some pretty big things. The little things I’ve talked about before. The big things are more serious. Their partners suck. Vodaphone, Vodafone (that’s how you spell it in Australia and Optus …
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Trade Me lite is here – for your phone
Go to m.trademe.co.nz – even from your mac (or PC if you really must) browser. It’s simple, stark even and light. A staggering 6.9k home page, versus 292kb for the www home page. Forget about browsing any way but by search. Actually it is a really unfriendly place to just browse for stuff – but …
A Trade Me Spin off – timeexchange
We are starting to see a few more spin off from Trade Me staff that are launching websites on their own. The first significant start up founded by someone working at Trade Me was Findsomeone which was created by Nigel while he was pulling a day job at Trade Me, and which was then bought …
Departure tax going, but a bad job doesn’t help
Thank goodness. Auckland airport’s embarrassingly poor departure tax system is for the trash heap – and rightly so. For example – what can’t you see in this photo of the departure tax place next to the immigration entrance? That’s right – the price. You can’t see the price. A simple sign saying “Departure tax – …
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RugbyHeaven down
Mark Hinton and Duncan Johnstone may have disagreed with the All Black training squad, but their reaction of pulling the plug on Rugby Heaven seems a little ridiculous to me: :-) Or is the power is off in Wellington?
NZX.com relaunches
Up goes NZX.com – a collaboration between Fairfax Digital and NZX. This has been a while in the making, so it is great to see the result. Well done everybody. (still some work to do though – it’s super slow from here in Perth)
BNZ Sucks: Verified by Visa sucks
Nigel from Netconcepts pointed out the ludicrous BNZ “verified by Visa” program, which he encountered recently on a NZ retailer. Netconcepts are a NZ/Wisconsin success story – developing websites among other things from their Auckland base. They know their stuff. Nigel was shocked to see the following appear after entering his credit card details in …
Stuff wins again
Well done Stuffies – winning again at the Netguide awards. Best Home PAge, Best Media site and Supreme Winner – a fantastic haul. Meanwhile Trade Me captured Best Trading Site (shock, horror) and best Real Estate Site. Interestingly Facebook went over the top of Bebo for best social netwokring site. Are Bebo’s days numbered, or …
Lance Wiggs 