Posted: June 28th, 2010 | Author: Absolute Genius | Filed under: Absolute Genius | 1 Comment »
Or, why you don’t embed images on your blog if they’re hosted by people who definitely do have a sense of humour.
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: May 19th, 2010 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | Tags: Files, Flies, Satire | 1 Comment »
Like Nicky Hager before me, I have magically obtained an email that helps explain Monday’s bomb threat in the Beehive.
Unfortunately, this fliesian Fawkes formulation was foiled, with the Beehive being evacuated and no maggots laid.
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Posted: May 16th, 2010 | Author: Daniel J Miles | Filed under: Daniel J Miles | Comments Off
In case anyone’s following my beef with Radio New Zealand, which started in an angry post which rapidly transmogrified into a more rational post after Radio New Zealand rang me, I feel I should update now with what happened as a result.
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People We Angered