March 2010
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The new RWC ad (and song)
I saw the new ad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup on TV last after hearing people Tweet about the song all day yesterday. Having finally heard the music (The Feelers’s cover of Jesus Jones’ Right Here, Right Now), I have to say I quite like it. I think I’m in the minority here but music (like art, food, fashion, etc.) is like that. I don’t recall ever particularly liking the...
The Apple iPad - not for me just yet
Apple are due to ship their first non-3G enabled iPads early next month but I won’t be getting one, yet.
I’m just not too sure what I’d use it for at this stage especially as I already have a laptop and an iPhone. The laptop has a nice 15in screen, plenty of power and a nifty physical keyboard! I can use it for surfing the web, email, Twitter but more importantly the full suite...
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Online shopping in NZ - an oxymoron
One thing that’s really disappointed me since I returned to New Zealand is the lack of online shopping. After 10 years in the UK I got very used to pretty much every shop in the country (and especially the major ones) having an online shopping portal. I kind of assumed that that’s what shops did and I can’t really understand why it’s not more prevalent here.
Back in the...
