Recent Posts Tagged With 'technology'

• New Zealand – Economic Capital of The World (1/12)

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 20:28 in politics, technology, money, business, society, motivation, community, Government, employment, new zealand, economics, productivity

  New Zealand’s days as a manufacturer of goods and dairy are well and truly numbered. The high cost and low margins are simply not sustainable. This is a twelve part series exploring what New Zealand might be able to do with strong leadership an...

• Marketing -101 (what not to do)

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 02:10 in technology, business, Marketing, Security, media, observation, Management, scanning

  “Excellent! We are starting to get some nice feedback from our users” This was a nice start on a blog entry over at a security software firm based out of Auckland, New Zealand. Due to external constraints, I can’t really mention th...

• Fiscal Attitude: Death versus Life

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 18:26 in politics, Culture, life, health, technology, money, community, medical research, military spending, medical collaboration

  How much does the world spend on “better” ways to kill people? Trillions of dollars every years. Yet people in Mumbai, or Wellington, or Madrid die every day for one simple reason. Lack of timely communication. Imagine an international, a...

• Technical Toast

  Posted on Sunday April 19th, 2009 at 17:24 in technology, windows, Networking, network mapping

  A little technical tid-bit for frustrated users, even quite savey users like myself. If you are on a network, and try to map a drive, sometimes for no apparent reason you can, and you get the following error: “The mapped network drive could not...

• Bootstrapping and Start-Up Culture

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 01:30 in Culture, budget, technology, money, business, motivation, start up, new business, bootstrapping, cost saving

  I have worked with loads of starts ups over the years, and even had quite a few myself. Something that always astonishes me is the cash burn these companies have.  The money sack is literally being shovelled into the proverbial furnace at an amazing...

• 5 on Monday

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 23:34 in Culture, technology, society, Wine, new zealand, holiday, drinking, c#, working, long hours, vb6, interop libraries

  Missed 5 on Monday last week - working a 30+ hour session does that to me I’m afraid. So, what was notable last week: sleep deprivation and driving don’t mix a weekend away does wonders for stress relief Interop between C# and VB6 is eno...

• 5 on Monday

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 22:00 in politics, internet, technology, money, society, new zealand, copyright, law, tax, debian, s92a

  Welcome to this week’s 5 on Monday. February is nearly over, and there is only a few weeks left of day light savings. So, what was notable last week: not having a Tax debt is a wonderful feeling after so long section 92a brought people to fight fo...

• I can read it! Can you?

  Posted on Friday January 23rd, 2009 at 22:51 in technology, money, business, language, coding, scanning, ocr, process management, document identification, electronic imaging, message queue

  fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy...

• Legal Downloads Increase By 25%

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 23:24 in internet, technology, business, society, downloads, piracy, music industry, law and order, sunscription service

  EARLIER this month I wrote a piece on the music industry (Is The Music Industry Dead?) Today, I heard a soundbite on the radio that last year, 95% of all music downloaded was done so illegally. This was a scarey number! Then a few more “minor&#...

• Print Media to Internet - The Challenge!

  Posted on Thursday January 15th, 2009 at 14:15 in internet, technology, business, conversion, aggregation, data mapping, display adverts

  A couple of years ago I was doing some work for a large media company. They needed to get display adverts from their various newspapers and magazine transferred to an online search engine from their main site. Text adverts were easy for them, but ex...

• Is the music industry dead?

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 23:23 in art, Culture, internet, technology, entertainment, money, business

  I read some article ages ago (still trying to find it again, but that issue is  for another time) about the state of the music industry. They were, and are, in deep shit.  This is bad for the artists, and largely the executives of the various music...

• Procrastination as a [Put profession here]

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 18:28 in internet, technology, business, procrastination, motivation, writing, email, time management, email rules

  I have yet to find any profession that is not prone to procrastination. My own personal experience with procrastination is intimate and long term.  In fact, since I should be working on something else write now, I guess writing this little bitty is ...