It's a big week in Microsoft world; over in Vegas they are holding their big Sharepoint event, getting ready for the release of Sharepoint 2010, which will also see a whole load of new goodies, including Office 2010, and (project managers take note)... Read More

With a justifiable finger waving at the Grammar boys' larrikinism at the Auckland museum, it gives a chance to ponder who, or which, of history's tyrannical regimes should be condemned as evil. I say all of them should be condemned, although that... Read More

Saluting Nazis is not okay! But get caught carrying pictures of Chairman Mao (death toll around 70 million), have a poster of mass-murderer Che Guevara on your wall, wear a Che Guevara T-shirt from Hallensteins or go sipping revolutionary coffee in... Read More

What a great weekend it turned out to be for Bay of Plenty Rugby. A narrow win over Manawatu and two players selected for the All Blacks. While the Steamers had slipped off the pace in recent weeks prior to the Manawatu win - the team in the blue and... Read More

There are some dates you don't forget. For me, Tuesday 17 October 1989 is one of them. It was a funny day right from the start. I'd gone into San Francisco to finalise some travel details. I had to go downtown and found a car park straight away, which... Read More

The ACC debacle has shown what happens when politics and business mix - group eat group. The bikers that are to protest the enormous increase in fees, are, quite justifiably aggrieved; so are the rest of us, but you'd never know it would ya? Aside from... Read More

After decades of making jam as a fundraiser for the local hospice, a Good Samaritan from Kerikeri in the Far North was forced to lay down her wooden spoon and hang up her apron when officials from the local council demanded that she upgrade her kitchen... Read More

At Projects and Services Committee, elected members had a comprehensive presentation about progress with the Tauranga City Council's and ratepayer's investment in the war against graffiti. It looks like the plan is working. But it's all uphill as... Read More

I am not called the 'chocolate crusader” for nothing and it just goes to show us old dogs still have what it takes to impress even the young whelps. The boss and I were out on a training mission (for the canine cup) in the middle of the day,... Read More

A French comedy, from French master, Francis Veber (The Valet, The Dinner Game); Francois Pignon (Patrick Timsit), whose wife (Virginie Ledoyen) has just left him for a shrink, checks into the same nice hotel as hitman Ralf (Richard Berry). Ralf is... Read More

We've had a record number (more than 3) of you writing and emailing and sending morse code and carrier pigeons, complaining about the addition of the H to Wanganui. Okay, so we're exaggerating about the morse code. We all know pigeons can't tell a... Read More

Reading the following from Monday's New Zealand Herald one could be forgiven for thinking that we have come a long way. Numbers on the unemployment benefit declined from a postwar peak of 177,000 in 1993 to 17,710 in June last year, but rose almost... Read More