ICE (In Case of Emergency) campaign

Hey i got sent this email today – what a great idea!!! Thought with all the thousands of people that read my blog daily i should post it here as well as send it to the millions on my email list…lets ice ice baby, bm bm bm bda bm bm.
We all carry our mobile [...]

Rise of the manbag: Are gadgets to blame?

We’re carrying too many techie toys…forced to embrace the metrosexual phenomenon of the ‘manbag’.
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7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

With a twist to the common list of habits that are useful to establish, here are 7 habits that you do best to avoid. Just like finding habits that can be useful for you it
’s important to find the habits that are holding you back. They can easily become such a normal, everyday part of [...]

i want a new point and click digital camera

I really, really want a new digital camera. Not an SLR but one that takes great pictures and is portable. And not just any camera but the Sony Cybershot DSCT200 .
I am a real Sony fan and, where possible, i buy Sony products (the perfect consumer for them). My old [...]

The Federal Reserves Beige Book Summary October 2007

What the Fed thinks are the key issues currently facing the US economy. Useful to give you an overview of what is happening but not much detail into why. Read the Beige Book summary here.

New Zealand’s new Eco-Plan

The Government has released its new energy strategy today with a bold target of 90% of energy produced through renewable sources.  The reaction has been swift and heated, polarising public sentiment against business compliance.
I agree that New Zealand’s competitive advantage is its clean, green image and sustainability, which will support the two main areas we have a [...]

France pulls it out again- NZ Economy Falters

oh – but it will.  The psyche of a nation is in turmoil again…
No way am i going to try to analyse the game except to give the French credit for doing something noone thought was possible.  An even bigger upset than the England win over Aussie.  A couple of local links here and here.  [...]

Ho Hum Day Today in Aotearoa New Zealand

Friday today and easing off after a short week at work.  Not being helped by a dire lack of good stories on the net.  Main economic story of the day was the major increase in New Zealand incomes by a whopping 9.4% on the year – of course the media story was about the gender gap…
Another finance company [...]

Google Docs

Google Docs has really caught my attention.
 My first go on a ‘computer’ was in 1984 in high school where we had a computer elective and worked on commodore 64’s one day a week.  The only things i can recall are babbage and turtle.
At university i took a business computing course where we had 10 modules using [...]

Hello world!

Hey
this is my first ever attempt at a blog.  I have always meant to look into it but have kept putting it off.  Well, no longer.  Anyway, it is a work in progress.  I have an idea of what i want to achieve here (an end goal) but the path will be a process/journey of [...]