Liar, liar, uniform on fire

07/06/10 •

Not content with merely misleading the public, NZ Police are now resorting to outright lies.

No statistician or analyst would live down their colleagues if they tried to make such claims from almost no evidence. At this point, it is a lie. In fact, no-one can ever gather any evidence to prove this statement because no-one is in the business of investigating why people are not crashing.

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Have I got news for you?

03/03/10 •

It is an ever more frequent event that I screw up my face in confusion, anger or even disgust when viewing the nightly 6pm television news. The cause of consternation is the seemingly endless stream of misinformation – or disinformation – fed to an eager public by ill-informed or ignorant ‘journalists’.
I use the term ‘journalist’ [...]

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Hell. It ain’t frozen yet, but it’s cooling.

26/01/10 •

Today I did something I had not expected to do until quite recently. I took my mobile business back to Telecom NZ. Vodafone are history after over 10 years.

So, what happened?

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Social networks need castes

19/01/10 •

On Facebook I have “friends”. On Twitter, I “follow” people and am “followed”. These are examples of classless societies.
But they don’t mirror the real world.
As much as many cultures have tried to eliminate social castes, classes, if you will, at a societal level, the fact is that within the realm of people you know and [...]

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