Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Six months back in the country, I've formed some opinions about where NZ is lacking. I was interested to see how the budget would address what I've identified as the country's shortcomings. Now the budget's out, I give them 1/2 marks. I only had two priorities. ...
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
Today I went to Auckland to meet Russell Brown of Public Address, to my
uncle's work, then finally to meet with some VCs. Russell first.
He's an interesting guy, very articulate (as befits a good on-air
personality!) and full of background for all the things that are
puzzling me about New Zealand: ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
I think I'm probably doing it a favour calling it a conference: Convergence
Oceania was a Wireless Forum sell shop, an expo hall with a room
featuring the biggest exhibitors. Everyone's Powerpoint deck was
focused to their own product story. Good thing it was free :-)
The expo hall was interesting, ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Great
guest rant on Public Address by a CRI (formerly DSIR, government
scientific research org) talking about insanity of current contestable
funding mechanisms. "A staggering amount of a scientist's time is now
spent writing funding proposals rather than doing science. The red
tape is almost unimaginable. On some occasions it has been necessary
for our ...
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
Kea New Zealand is "global community of people who help each other achieve great things all over the world because of the connection they share with New Zealand." Virtual Rotary Club :-)
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
Fascinating report on the jobs that migrants with higher degrees or university degrees do when they get to NZ. Biggest category is computer professionals. Windows doesn't just reboot itself, people! (well, I guess sometimes it does ...)
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