Archive for October, 2008
Only one person will know
Oct 30th
Ultimately, only one person knows what this is about. For everyone else, enjoy a great song by an icon of the 50s, 60s and (sort of) 70s.
Pluck your Pluckers
Oct 21st
I used to watch this show when I was a kid. For years, Scott and Angela even made jokes about it. Their first son used to get nicknamed Zippy by Scott a fair bit. After seeing this clip, I’m not sure I understand how it ever made it on air as a kids safe show.…
Sunset on a good day
Oct 21st
I took my own advice today and went and bought as many bonds as I could afford. I am also going to start putting a set amount of money into Bonds every month as a way of building up some savings without actually having to worry about spending it. See, the simple problem I have…
1920s parallels are frightening
Oct 18th
Like everyone in the world at the moment, the economy is very much at the top of my mind. I get to work in the morning and the first thing I do before reading my emails is load up Google Finance and check out the state of the NYSE and associated markets prior to close…
A white^H^H^H^Het wedding
Oct 15th
I got this in my video podcasts today and thought I’d share it. As I told my mother, you’ll wet yourself because those in the video definitely did. Now, here’s an interesting question for you to answer. Why do we put our wedding rings on the fourth finger of our left hand? The Chinese have…
Labour says one thing, then does the other – again
Oct 15th
Wasn’t it only a very short time ago that Dr Cullen and Helen Clark were accusing National have having a secret, hidden agenda? Wasn’t it only August when they were making very loud noises about how irresponsible and wrong it was for National to be funding its policies by taking on more debt? So would…
Economy highlights IT expenditure
Oct 13th
In a climate of financial fear, uncertainty and doubt it is ironic that we suddenly see a lot of people predicting the rise of open source platforms to take advantage of this situation. Not only Linux for servers and workstations, but also other tools that are more central to an organisations day to day business.…
OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final on mirrors
Oct 12th
Just thought you’d be interested in knowing that the free and open source office suite, OpenOffice.org, is about to announce the release of their latest major version on Monday. To prepare for this release, the final stable release of OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 has already been pushed out to the major mirrors and is making its way…
NZ$ Freefall – Ouch
Oct 11th
Back in June of 2007 I was very concerned about the state of the NZ economy and the fact that we were living and spending well above what our economy could afford. Interest rates were so high that international investors were pumping huge amounts of cash into our economy and the dollar was ballooning out…
Maori Girls Are Best
Oct 4th
Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties to perform. Terry had married a woman from America and bragged that he had told his new wife to do the dishes and all the cleaning in the house. He said it took a couple of days but on the…