What a privilege it was on Saturday night to attend Sealords Opera in the Park. I must admit that it was the first of this yearly event that I have personally attended, but for me this fantastic event made up for all the past 9 that I had not gone to. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa [...]
Tags: Kiri Te Kanawa, nelson, opera in the park, Sealord
Vodafone (who purchased Ihug back in Oct 2007) has announced it is dropping the brand in favour of bringing it under the banner of their own business identity. Ihug (stands for Internet Home Users Group) started life in 1994 and was the first NZ company to introduce flat rate internet..
Tags: ihug, new zealand isp, vodafone
For a number of years we have been subscribing to press releases from Government Ministers. Some days we see a huge number of press releases being received, other days very little. Most press releases are not seen even in the paper as they generally tell us how wonderful the minister is by creating/approving this or [...]
Imagine going online to invest some spare cash you have. Or finding a place to borrow some money from. No financial middle people or companies to pay commissions to – either way. Its coming to a screen near you. Nexx – online money matchmaker – connecting people who need money with people who have money [...]
Back in the internet dark ages – 1994 – when I first downloaded a web browser to look at web pages (from Nelson the closest ISP was Actrix in Wellington – $8 per megabyte of website material looked at – one soon learned to turn off images), I discovered a whole new world. Of course [...]
For the past few days I have been in Christchurch. One major reason was to visit the Small Business Expo held in the excellent Christchurch Convention Centre venue. The other reason of course was to catch up with our Christchurch clients. Whilst in Christchurch we stayed at Azena Motels, who is of course one of [...]
I posted this article last night, and thought I could offer a few comments after reading tonights edition online. This was forced on me, cause our paper was not delivered tonight in our mail box as normal (and my partner rang up the mail before 5.30 to tell them – but alas it still has [...]