Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

Budget

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. ...

VCs and Contacts

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: ...

Day 9: First Computer Conference

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, ...

Public Funding of Science a Shambles in NZ

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 ...

Kea – Social Network of New Zealanders

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 :-)

Top 20 Jobs Done By Migrants in NZ

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 ...)