Whoever said “a servant cannot serve two masters” clearly never lived in a house with a pair of cats.
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One of my enduring memories of a wonderful break in Dunedin was eating the most beautiful fish outdoors at Fleurs in the early spring sunshine when a Sea Lion came and sat about 3m away. It’s a must visit whenever in Otago
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Back home from having my wisdom teeth. Removed and catching up on missed Euro 24 games while waiting for the anesthetic to wear off.
This morning’s Turkey - Georgia game was an absolute cracker.
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Watching the Euro 2024 game between Portugal and the Czech Republic on The TVNZ iPad app. The app went dark with a fatal error. When I got it running again, the Czech Republic had scored in the ~ 90 seconds of down time.
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This is why New Zealand always needed more than The Southern Cross cable network. And could still do with one more international link.
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Realised today that the small stash of banknotes and coins I keep for buying strawberries, cherries and other fruit from roadside vendors in summer simply doesn’t get touched for eight months of the year.
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In the past 5 years two local businesses I loved closed their doors after the landlord increased rent by much more than the rate of inflation. One shop stayed empty, and clearly not earning rent, for four years. The other shop has been empty two years. The first is now leased, but the tenant told me they pay less rent than the tenant who moved out four years ago earlier.
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As a nod towards the early, glory, days of the internet, I’ve decided to reinstate the Blog Roll. It’s still a work in progress. Check back in a week.
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Do you think anyone in New Zealand would buy a Cybertruck if they could?
(I asked the same question years ago about the Hummer a couple of days before spotting on on the Harbour Bridge).
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New Zealand’s overlooked billion-dollar industry
From my story in the NZ Herald:
“New Zealand’s financial technology sector is booming. Over the past decade, it has expanded at an annual compound growth rate of 32 per cent. That’s four times as fast as the overall tech sector.
That growth has taken the fintech sector to the point where it is roughly the same size as New Zealand’s wine industry.”
Read more at: Capital Markets Report: Fintech - New Zealand’s overlooked billion-dollar industry
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I was hoping the news industry would see me out until retirement. That ambition is not looking too good today.
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In my capacity as a journalist writing about business and technology I get a lot of press releases about enterprise computing. Most are incomprehensible jargon soups (and curiosly, every company sending releases claims to be the world leader in their field).
If I ever make a call to follow up one of these, frankly dull, stories , I quickly learn that the person who wrote the press release doesn’t understand what it’s all about either.
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Being tortured as a business model
One of the most disappointing recent technology trends is, that for many modern apps, the only practical documentation comes in the form of YouTube videos. I find video is a tough way to learn at the best of times, but scrubbing back and forth when something is not clear and then being constantly interupted by nasty, intrustive and inappropriate advertising is form of torture.
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Dear anyone online. If I’m unsubscribing from whatever spam you are sending me you can cut the passive aggressive nonsense and the “we’re sorry to see you go”. At this point I’ve already heard too much from you. You are in danger of turning disinterest into dislike.
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Even after 60 years of watching football I humbly recognise I couldn’t do a better job than most professional coaches or team managers. Even the unfeted ones.
On the other hand, I’m damn certain I could do a better job of running clubs than nine out of ten owners. The majority are idiots.
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Checking if all those cross posting fediverse things are working as they should. Please ignore this.
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For reasons that I don’t need to bore anyone with, Saturday got off to an extremely slow start. By the time I made it to the local, fancy artisan baker, most of the usual choices were sold out. So I went off piste and got a fruit loaf. Which turns out to be fabulous
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I think in all my years of dealing with some awful documentation, Western Digital’s MyCloud documentation and support takes things to a new level.
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The political right use the term ‘woke’ in the way that communists would use the word ‘bourgeois’ to signify “things and people we don’t like and who had better watch out”.
It has the advantage of being easier to spell. That’s important give the education cuts.
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Apple Music’s categorisation of my library is a wild ride….
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Politicians’ salaries should be index linked by law to ordinary people’s income levels. It can be set at a higher levels, but it should rise (or fall} in line with everyone else.
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I’m surprised at how many people complain about daylight saving. Don’t remember it being so controversial in the past.
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End of daylight saving has played havoc with my appetite. It’s like jet lag, I didn’t feel hungry last night or this morning, now I’m ravenous.
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“Atmospheric river” will be the title of my next album.