More on the bizdev shortage in NZ
Saturday, October 11th, 2008James McGlinn emailed me a great reply to my piece on the business cofounder shortage in NZ, and he's finally posted it. You should read it because I agree with everything he says.
Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
James McGlinn emailed me a great reply to my piece on the business cofounder shortage in NZ, and he's finally posted it. You should read it because I agree with everything he says.
NZ Broadband Pricing and Network Neutrality
Sunday, September 28th, 2008In this Ziff-Davis Australia article, the leaders of Australia's three largest ISPs declare network neutrality to be an American problem and explain why. It's an interesting argument, but I think there are some key elements unstated in the article. In America, largely for historical reasons, residential customers have "all you ...
Software Freedom Day Notes: ACTA
Friday, September 19th, 2008Mark Harris lead this session. Was at SSC, MORST, now Independent. When Wikileaks in May released ACTA doc, saw NZ mentioned, began digging. ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Proposed by Japan and USA, but not limited to them at all. About eight countries, mainly G8 and a few ...
Software Freedom Day
Sunday, September 14th, 2008I'll be in Wellington on Saturday, September 20th, for Software Freedom Day. It's open source's open day, a chance for the general public who might have been curious about open source to come along and learn more. There'll be copies of Linux given out and a WellyLUG installfest ...
The Tyranny of Distance
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Jenny Morel is raising a $100M NZ VC fund. That's good news, in that NZ needs smart angels and VCs. I've had a number of NZ friends making the rounds of US venture capital firms and angels looking for investors, and the message has always been "not while ...
National’s Broadband Plans
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008I see in Rod Drury's blog that National have released their first real economic policy and it's to do with funding fibre-to-the-home in NZ. It's good! Anyone who travels knows how dire the bandwidth situation is here, and it's worse on the ground. For me, bandwidth = productivity. ...
Telecom hosting not worth the premium
Monday, March 17th, 2008A client made the decision to use Telecom as their web site host. I argued against it because the price differential was so great between Telecom and, well, anyone else. The client's management decided to go with solid blue chip Telecom. The service we've had from them ...
Travelocity are incompetent fuckwits suckled at Satan’s poisonous nipples
Monday, March 17th, 2008I took a trip to ETech earlier this month. I initially attempted to book the trip using Travelocity but it turned into a massive clusterfuck of their making. I've documented it below in case you, my lovely reader, need any reason to avoid this dribbling shit trickle of ...
Crafty Kiwis
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Congrats to Sue Tyler and the Ponoko team, and all the others who were interviewed by Peter Griffin for the Idealog issue focusing on craft. The article (which will be online in a few weeks) has photos of various Ponoko-made goods, including a necklace of sheep which looked awfully ...
Microsoft sues its customers
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007There's a lot of talk about this Fortune article around Microsoft, Linux, and the 235 patents that Microsoft claim Linux infringes upon. Here's my redux: Microsoft is extorting patent payments from users of open source software, beginning with the customers who also use Microsoft software. Microsoft has ...