A Glimpse of Seoul

By On October 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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

By On October 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Asiana Airlines – Sydney to Seoul

By On October 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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AirNZ leg of the big trip: Wellington – Sydney

By On October 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Psychosocially, not bad

By On October 24, 2008 · 1 Comment

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. [...]

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

By On October 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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, [...]

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An ordinary week in Wellington

By On October 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Politics big and small

By On October 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Are you thinking of buying a house in Wellington?

By On October 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Want to know how this sub-prime mess happened?

By On October 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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.

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Blog Marketing at the Biz Centre

By On October 1, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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