Warner Music is suing a retired railroad man in Florida whose left side has been paralyzed by a stroke and whose sole source of income is his disability cheque.
In addition to the blog post about my errm, scoop :), it was effectively confirmed by Telecom's Kevin Kenrick and Mark Ratcliffe at today's analysts' briefing in Sydney.
Paul G. Buchanan writes that the visit to the White House by Helen Clark confirms that US-NZ relations are warming up. After a cooling of relations during the first term of George W. Bush, recent statements by US diplomatic and congressional officials point towards a softening of the US stance.
The Green Party’s announcement today confirming that forest owners should receive some financial benefit from the carbon their trees remove from the atmosphere will buoy Auckland-based forestry investors heading to tonight’s MAF land-use consultation meeting at the Waipuna Hotel...
"...what appears to be a new, working crack for Windows Vista. It's basically a BIOS driver used by OEMs that tells Vista it doesn't need to validate the copy, as it's deemed inconvenient for users." A cracking group called Paradox has release notes...
I’ve just spent the last hour playing around with rss and feedburner to generate an easy host your own Greenpeace action rss feed includelet. A little rss, a touch of css, a smidgen of javascript and hey presto - your own self updating Greenpeace Take Action box! ...
Auckland men spend the most money on grooming but Waikato men surveyed had one statistic to themselves -- more of them had shaved their groin than men in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin combined...
The Government is looking at ways to fast-track several renewable energy consent applications to help reach the ambitious goals in the draft New Zealand Energy Strategy, Energy Minister David Parker says.
The government has announced $10 million to upgrade the Onehunga train line plus $5 million for a new station. This will allow Onehunga residents to reach the city in 20 minutes as opposed to sitting on a bus for over an hour...
I think the airline practice of overbooking flights is deplorable, and hope one day someone sues over it. If there are 300 seats on a flight then they should sell 300 tickets for it. You can have a standby list on top of that, but selling 320 tickets for a 300 seat flight should not be allowed...
The world’s population is on track to surpass 9 billion persons by 2050, according to the newly released 2006 Revision of the official United Nations population estimates and projections, which also predict that the number of elderly persons will hit 1 billion.
With environmentalists, socialists, feminists, governments, the UN and Al Gore all signed up, is global warming irrecovably a political issue - or should it return to being a scientific question?
As Parliament prepares to pass Sue Bradford's "anti-smacking" bill, the only thing that seems to be clear is that absolutely nothing is clear. "Reasonable force" remains undefined. I find it even less palatable to leave such discretion to the police...
It is increasingly looking as if the Government will suffer an embarrassing defeat over its Therapeutic Products and Medicines bill, the Green Party says. "The bill passed... by one vote. If, as indicated, Taito Phillip Field opposes it, it looks as if it is dead in the water."
