I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
Back after a week off. Fiji was great.
Some random thoughts
- We flew Freedom Air. That’s the service where you take your own food along. It was an Air New Zealand (A320)light without food. That was a much better model than being tied into a standard food service and clean up schedule. Much better with kids to be able to do what you want, when you want to.
- Direct flights rocks. It really made the difference for where we chose to go. Having to stop in Auckland with kids and adding the extra hours to the flight is just scary. The more direct flights destinations we get into Wellington the better my life will be. We need to fight for flights. Once a week to Asia and US West Coast would be great.
- I didn’t watch much TV but I did notice the Australian business shows. It was earnings week and the style in Australia is just so much more aggressive than in New Zealand. Seeing Packer (the younger) strut into their conference with his posse was cool. Hells Angels in suits. In Australia that business culture is much more masculine than here. It looks more like sport and I found it motivating.
- Explorer 7 RC1 was announced. There may be an an RC2. In my first month of Blogging (June 2003) I noted my frustration that Explorer was in need of a refresh. IT IS OVER 3 YEARS LATER AND STILL NOT RELEASED. The slowing release cycle is absolutely nuts but fortunately it creates a heap of opportunities for more nimble players.
- ASB Business releases video podcasts of their 6:30am business interviews. http://tvnz.co.nz/ASBBusinessPodcastMP4 This is very cool as I can’t often watch the show at 6:30 but can now check what was on and just pick up the stories I’m interested in later in the day. The dis-intermediation of the broadcast model continues.
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