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  • "Why John Key should be careful what he wishes for when questioning foreign ownership of NZ land | interest.co.nz" http://j.mp/cfpVHo 1 hr ago
  • RT @LATimesbooks: Amazon introduces $139 Kindle. Cheap -- but is it fun?: Amazon.com has introduced a Kindle for $139. <think I want one! 1 hr ago
  • Have 16GB microSD card for HTC sense - busy copying files over 1 hr ago
  • "Second Round of iPhone 4 Launches Begins in Australia - Mac Rumors" http://j.mp/9uUuaI (But not NZ yet ...'shipping error' blamed) 1 hr ago
  • At Parliament last night. A pleasant eve aside from clearing press lines http://twitgoo.com/1ev32a 9 hrs ago
  • Taking a break in cafe in Portcullis House. Much vaunted flat white is decidedly average 10 hrs ago
  • iPhone4 no longer on VodafoneNZ website? 13 hrs ago
  • iPhone4 delayed in NZ? No longer sold exclusively through Vodafone NZ? 14 hrs ago
  • 8 days til we leave for holiday/work trip in NZ. Can't come quick enough #fb 14 hrs ago
  • BBC News - Time to 'move beyond' Asbos, says home secretary May http://bit.ly/cibLJ3 23 hrs ago
  • BBC News - Pakistan crash raises questions about air safety http://bit.ly/chjeOU 1 day ago
  • RT @nzherald Today's OCR hike is an endorsement of market sentiment, writes Brian Fallow: http://nzh.tw/10662058 < NOT so thrilled 1 day ago
  • RT @freezingkiwis Do you know how hard it is to find a cafe in Wellington that has WiFi? Bloody nuts. Settled in Joes Garage. Good people. 1 day ago
  • "It's India's poor who need British aid, not its military and business elites | Pankaj Mishra | The Guardian" http://j.mp/azyJpe 1 day ago
  • "MacRumors iPhone Blog: iOS 4 Adoption on iPhones Hits 50%" http://j.mp/9FMrCe 1 day ago
  • Pleasant evening by the Thames in Parliament even if I was clearing press lines half the time. Some on use of pandemic flu vaccines in Oz 1 day ago
  • Crikey, it might be recess but the work is unrelenting 1 day ago
  • RT @BR3NDA so, tonight i somehow got on to Council for New Zealand Open Source Society....< congrats 1 day ago
  • Gasping for a cup uf tea 2 days ago
  • I meant, I have noticed very little activity concerning #nhswhitepaper on twitter over last 3 days. Which I suppose is interesting in itself 2 days ago
  • More updates...

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A Glimpse of Seoul

On the flight to London now, and I only intended a slight pun, but it reflects the small opportunity to get a view of Seoul and what it might offer, care of Asiana. The quality of the transfer and the hotel I was taken to for our overnight stopover really was pretty classy for an economy [...]

Technote: Eee pc plus iPhone combo beats Powerbook 12″ for this UK trip

I’ve left the mac at home. Two reasons – weight and battery life. I only have about anhour of juice left the the Powerbook battery these days and it just didn’t seem worth bringing that at the portable hard drive on this trip. Internet access in the UK will be via a ’3′ USB stick which [...]

Asiana Airlines – Sydney to Seoul

It was a little bit of a tight connection having been about 30 minutes late into Sydney but I managed it ok as this Asiana 777 was late in from Seoul. So far so good – having just cleared Papua New Guinea we’re probably about half way there. I’m going to do my best to stick [...]

AirNZ leg of the big trip: Wellington – Sydney

Now, that’s more like it. The re-fitted A320 that I’m on this morning is much flasher thanthe old one I was on to Brisbane last week. The entire leftside of the plane’s seatback entertainment system isnt working too well though – so I shifted over to the other side to watch Vincent Ward’s, ‘Rain of the [...]

Psychosocially, not bad

As far as my first international invited workshop/ lecture was concerned, I think that went pretty well. It was a little difficult to understand the exact requirements of the participants in advance due to the nature of the subject matter and the wide degree of variation in the background of the people who came along. But [...]

Wellington – Christchurch – Brisbane on Air NZ. Not so much …

I buzzed into work pretty early this morning to sort out a few documents, hold one meeting and type up a brief report before setting off for the Psychosocial Disaster Management Conference in Brisbane. Although Air NZ are supposed to be upgrading all the A320s and 767s that service their Trans-Tasman routings by December 2008, I’ve [...]

An ordinary week in Wellington

Its been a busy week. I’m off to Brisbane on Monday where I’m teaching and presenting at a conference on psychosocial disaster management. This week has been all about getting ready for that work, drawing up a proposal for some related work next year, and doing some work for a border management exercise in New Zealand [...]

Politics big and small

I accept that times are unusual.

I accept that the US$700 billion bail-out bill has deflected a lot of attention, as well as the completely nonsensical pork-barrel clauses that have nothing to do with anything. Child-size quiver of arrows, anyone?

I accept that the market gyrations over the last week have been rather sobering. Anyone wanna buy a [...]

Are you thinking of buying a house in Wellington?

I got out of the UK property market in June 2005. Probably a quite a way short of the peak price for 1 bedroom garden flats in south east London, but I wasn’t comfortable with the way the economy was going at that time, the flat needed maintenance, and I didn’t want to have to think [...]

Want to know how this sub-prime mess happened?

This is an excellent slide animation that shows you how this current situation occurred. It’s a little tongue-in-cheek but should be considered the gold standard sub-prime primer.

Blog Marketing at the Biz Centre

Last night I attended a 3 hour blog marketing workshop at The Biz Centre, run by Hamish Clark and Richard Calkin. I’d already been to a Trafficology workshop by Richard on search engine optimisation, so I thought it would be worth attending. Although much of it was at a level I’d already covered, there were some [...]