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- The spectacle of hundreds of bare-chested, grass-skirt-wearing, stone-age warriors carrying spears down the streets of the capital and into Parliament grounds was powerfully symbolic. Behind them were thousands of supporters, mostly in modern dress. |
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- "This is no pump and dump," Feltex chief executive Sam Magill said this week between presentations outlining the biggest local share float in five years. |
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- Carter Holt Harvey has signalled it may buy or build production capacity in its Asian markets -- and said worries at home could jeopardise further investment in New Zealand. |
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- The Act party's poor polling since the rise of National over recent months raises some key questions about the party's viability as one based on advocating free market policies. |
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- With the Sydney real estate market teetering on the brink of a crash, New Zealand may be the beneficiary of recent taxation changes which have turned New South Wales into a "no go" area for many property investors. |
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- IBM is doing well -- and for good reason. |
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- Resource management and anti-smoking laws top the list of laws New Zealanders do not like. |
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- The foreshore and seabed saga has underlined the tribal nature of the Labour party. |
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- recent Securities Commission report, Corporate Governance in New Zealand: Principles and guidelines, sets out nine principles of good corporate governance. They are particularly relevant in the context of intellectual property (IP) asset management. |
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- Parliament's transport and industrial relations select committee got to see, first hand, the strength of employer opposition to the Employment Relations Law Reform Bill when it came to Auckland's Alexandra Park last week to hear oral submissions. |
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- The US has become increasingly ambivalent about the growth of a European-wide foreign policy defence capability. Recent European moves to draft a European security and defence policy and to organise a rapid reaction force have been met in Washington by suspicion that Nato will be weakened. |
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- A new export industry with the potential to bring in millions of dollars, employ thousands and spawn new companies for New Zealand was formally launched in London last week. |
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- Did the Lange-Douglas alliance break down because neither could walk between the seventh and ninth floors of the Beehive to talk face to face? |
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- English-speaking netizens may never see them -- and might not realise what they were looking at if they did -- but terrorist organisations from every corner of the world, al Qaeda among them, maintain publicly accessible websites. They also use such basic tools as instant messaging and bulletin boards to plot and pass instructions. |
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- Judging by the talk of the "chattering classes" the rugby journalists who purport to know the direction All Black rugby will take this year but don't have to put their team on the field there are at least seven players who are in the reckoning to captain the All Blacks. |
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- New Zealand's leading racing stable will not be closing its doors, despite the departure of Matamata trainer Paul O'Sullivan to Hong Kong. |
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- After more than a year of virtual silence, Auckland-based wireless technology provider RoamAD is back with a bang, geared up to go global and confident that its unique metropolitan area WiFi infrastructure will produce big wins overseas. |
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- It was a time of flared trousers and long hair, of sandals and beards, of sharing your love and various substances with other members of your commune. And it was a time when laws based on sound principles didn't apply to you because they were, like, uncool. |
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- Westpac Institutional Bank won the National Business Review Bank of the Year award for second year at the Vodafone 2004 Infinz industry awards. |
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- Proposals for a new Copyright Act, released in June last year, will (if implemented) help meet the demands of rapid technological change. But a number of important and contentious issues need to be addressed if New Zealand is to benefit from Australia's recent review. |
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- The March 2004 Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) results showed increases in earnings and paid hours, while employment remained static, according to Statistics New Zealand. |
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- Salary and wage rates (including overtime), as measured by the Labour Cost Index, rose 0.4 per cent in the March 2004 quarter, the smallest quarterly increase since the September 2000 quarter. |
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- Vehicle registrations for the month of April were up 13.1 per cent on last year, according to Land Transport Safety Authority figures. |
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- The US president says he will write to the Palestinian prime minister and expand dialogue over the roadmap peace plan. |
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Fair Terms (May 06 2004 21:59 GMT) - “…But the biggest frustration for all of us is the seemingly inexorable trend of vendors adopting DRM, nastier and nastier sneakwrap licenses, privacy policies that deprive customers of all privacy, etc. How do we make a dent? One reader suggestion I recently discussed is the idea of doing ‘ |
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- Film News: Script refused permit by Ministry of Islamic Guidance -- The Iranian government has blocked helmer Mohsen Makhmalbaf from shooting his latest film, "Amnesia." |
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- Film News: Gallic showbizzers take over news studio -- One hundred striking Gallic showbiz workers took over a studio at paybox Canal Plus on Thursday, halting live news broadcasts in their continuing protest of cuts to their unemployment benefit. The group has made no move to leave the studio. |
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- Business News: TV, radio sales increase -- SBS Broadcasting upped revs 22% to E141 million ($172 million), an increase of $31 million, and cut its losses by more than half to $4.7 million in the first quarter. |
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- Business News: Revenue more than doubles for quarter -- Profits at Pixar Animation Studios more than tripled in the first quarter, boosted by strong home video sales of its last animated feature, "Finding Nemo." |
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- WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With TV cameras and a standing-room only crowd watching closely, the newly-formed U.S. Election Assistance Commission held its first public hearing Wednesday and agreed to look closely at using open source software to do the job in the future. |
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- Berlin (dpa) - Im Streit um ein Zuwanderungsgesetz hat die SPD einen Spitzentreffen der Parteivorsitzenden vorgeschlagen. Ihnen komme nun eine besondere Verantwortung zu, da sich die Unterhändler des Vermittlungsausschusses ineinander verkeilt hätten, sagte SPD- Verhandlungsführer Dieter Wiefelspütz der Tageszeitung «Die Welt» (Freitag). Der stellvertretende Unionsfraktionschef Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU) lehnt dies ... |
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- A bit Seventies and très louche... |
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- Un compañero preso en Quatre Camins, nos escribe estas lÃneas y nos pide que la difundamos... porque "los nervios están a flor de piel" y si las cosas no cambian "se puede liar más gorda" |
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- Hi, Since yesterday I'm trying to download the episodes, I got seasons 1, 2 and 3. I'm new to Bit Torrent and actually, I never download much except for PC games demos .... so is the tracker down, since I keep getting errors saying 'connection refused'. Marco... |
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CAP Plan (May 06 2004 21:58 GMT) - I'll endorse this Center for American Progress plan for Iraq. Certainly it's preferable to "stay the course." Discuss amongst yourselves.... |
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- I'll actually be spending the next few days building more blogs, if you can believe that! ...and writing. I've set myself a deadline of June 4 to finish my latest book, and by golly I intend to do it! See... |
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- Bush's Iraq illustrates Capitalism's system of excess |
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- i woke up this morning and the sunhad overslepti brushed it off as something that just happensfor no apparent reason, no logicbehind itI sat in the darkness thinkingabout the night soundsclosing my eyes, i could hear the still black mist floating around methe creatures of the night came back,realizing that time was on their sideevil surrounded melonging for the comfort of sunrise,for the safety daylight would bring,i closed my eyes, pretending there washope...why has the sun betrayed me? why won't it protect me from the cruel night demons?tedious as it was, feigning happinessis all that kept me goingmy internal clock was screaming in outragemy pulse quickening to match the strokesof the fingers... |
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- [humour] Ugandan Discussions -- the covers of Private Eye ... [via del.icio.us/kevan] |
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disgust (May 06 2004 21:57 GMT) - Stale sweat staining his eager browHis eyes growing arms to hold me downSeparating from myself so as not todeal with the mental shut downPulling the cotton from a bottle of Tylenol,I place it in the receptive halls I want destroyedSilently begging myself to seek help, guidance,a comforting voiceFeigning indifference, I don my impish childhoodinnocence like the sleeping cap Grandmawears to protect her curlersI sit in the desolate chambers of myinner closet pretending ignorance tothe horrific display of a sick man onlyheart shattering breaths awayMasterminding a grandeur forte deep withinmy mind and vocal box, an out of tune piano,I jump on the expendable wires, delightinghow the accelerating sounds cover the sonicboom escaping my frozen lipsGaining clearance from myself that the Handsare dead, I rush to cradle that broken part of meand embrace the last semblances of reality I possessFeeling my loathing and hate curdle,I fear the exclusive respawn |
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- A Didier Drogba double gives Marseille a 2-0 aggregate win over Newcastle and a place in the Uefa Cup final. |
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