Posted: June 26th, 2010 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
I love it. Outright love it. I don’t want to be the guy who bitches and complains about companies all the time – after my last post – so I feel the need to say something positive now.
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Posted: June 26th, 2010 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: experiences, groupy, groupy.co.nz, New Zealand, online business, wellington, www.groupy.co.nz | 2 Comments »
UPDATE: I’m putting this first so that it will be seen – Lance from Groupy has straight out said it’s unacceptable from them. So take the following as actions of an errant employee founding partner and not as a reflection on the rest of groupy.co.nz. Original post follows.
Apologies about the length of this. It’s going to include a bunch of quoted emails. I’ll quote them in full so that I don’t get accused of leaving stuff out afterwards. The short story is I won’t be shopping with
groupy.co.nz – which is a shame, because Lance Wiggs runs some excellent businesses, the concept was good, and I had a lot of hope for it.
Posted: June 25th, 2010 | Author: Absolute Genius | Filed under: Guest post, Uncategorized | Tags: chris carter, cocaine, Satire | 1 Comment »
Speculative journalism at it’s best:
Maverick Labour MP, Chris Carter astounded members of the Press Gallery today when he used illict substances and started a dance party during a press conference today.
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Posted: June 10th, 2010 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
I honestly don’t have a problem with ministers using their ministerial credit cards for personal expenses, and I don’t understand the current furore around it.
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Posted: May 24th, 2010 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
As written in The Guardian, via tech-blog Gizmodo, this is how you change the world. A spectacular initiative where women on bicycles carrying netbooks and wireless connections visit obscure villages to provide a fleeting flirtation with technology. These women quite literally peddle a view over the information of the outside world, educational possibilities impossible without their presence.
Beautiful. Read it here. Now.
Posted: May 24th, 2010 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
The Herald’s Sideswipe column has the results of a study of UK residents to find what they considered the best invention. It’s bemusing, to say the least.
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Posted: May 19th, 2010 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Dear John Key. I’m not one to criticise too heavily over the silly pedantic stuff. However I just can’t handle this one any more.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2010 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
Avid readers – and I’m not convinced there are any, but on the off chance – may have noticed an angry post from me about Radio New Zealand that went up over the weekend. I stand by some of what I said, but I’ve been rung by the Radio New Zealand Communications Head who has corrected me on other parts – so impressive PR from Radio NZ to have picked up on it and dealt with it politely. Here goes:
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Posted: January 12th, 2010 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
David Farrar has provided a damning post, mocking Labour’s Darien Fenton for suggesting the rich be fined more than the poor for traffic offences. Full of magnificent mockery, the post however completely ignores (either willfully or accidentally) the real argument behind such a fining regime.
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Posted: November 16th, 2009 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
If this guy was a better speaker, this would have been one of the greatest pranks of all time. As it is, it’s still not bad.
For context, he somehow got on the speaking list at an anti-immigration protest, and delivered this:
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