April 26th, 2012
….in less than one week, and its not over yet!
True Story.
According to the local paper, the Nelson Mail, Welsh tourist & backpacker Tim Bow likes garage sales. Using the words of the papers reporter, it would seem he even appears to have “a passion” for it.
Well it looks like this passion has really paid off for the traveler this time around.
Antiques Roadshow would have a simple antipodean believe that in smalltown NZ, only 200 year old Aoteroa, there just aren’t any surprises left to be found?
...this is the cover of the book he found in a box.....
Well this Welshman found one, locally, last weekend.
...and inside this book, in this $5 box of books, he found this.....
Here’s the kicker….
He bought the book as part of a $5 pile of books in the sale, but hoped to sell it for much more.
Is he on the right track here?
Well..….with still three days still to go on his auction site listing…his $5 investment is sitting there on the Trademe auction site, as of last glance, at a “not too unhealthy bid level” of NZD$1500.
Interesting to see he is thinking of the Commonwealth too, after Trademe user “Vat” asked Tim, whether he thought USA based Ebay would have given him a better shot of the $$$……
Tim replied above….
Perhaps even, the Enid Blyton society may look “downunder.” As a youngster I read all the books, and absolutely loved them all. Today….all of them put together would probably account for the first half of the first episode of some Xbox/Playstation shoot’em up.
But….. back then, they let your imagination do what it was really meant too!
Sunday, even apart from this Indian Summer weather we are all finding “most enjoyable”, should be an interesting day.
CREDIT – Nelson Mail (www.stuff.co.nz/nelsonmail )
UPDATE 10:15am 27-04-2012 – bidding now at NZD$3260!! I’m thinking everyone will be checking books at yard/garage/boot sales just a little bit more thoroughly now? Lets hope they are genuine bids.
UPDATE: 8:16pm 29-04-2012 – seems the gene pool has again been hammered tonight, after it eventuated that the winning bid was reduced to NZD$1510. Perhaps a spell on Ebay may have been worth a hit.
UPDATE: 5:45pm 30-03-2012 – seems its all downhill from here.
April 26 2012 | General and Nelson and New Zealand and Uncategorized | No Comments »
……the perfect test case.
This I recall from my IT days chatting with project folk from the major companies, even when it was something that wasn’t the most popular thing, NZ was, they recanted, just a perfect “test case” situation. Another likened it in these words…..as a “control” experience for his company.
Why?
Well, from what I was told…it went like this……….
1] english speaking country
2] accustomed to most / easily adjustable, even taking local customs into account, to Australia / Canada / USA / UK, and hence scalable …..
3] the ability to “test market” anything for a pittance of what it would cost to do “the same” in one of the countries named in no. 2 above
4] plenty of other “not at first glance” obvious reasons…..
….and that precisely brings me to this…….
- CREDIT – http://www.webpronews.com
many media sites are reporting tonight, like the ole days of IT, that Google Maps will deliver “live traffic” updates to 3 countries, us, Hong Kong, and Norway.
So good on you Google – well done…can’t wait to try this out.
And while I’m at it on the subject of driving in New Zealand – can I recommend all Kiwis check out the most excellent site here…..
http://www.giveway.co.nz/
It just makes this new road rule change (thats due in about a week) so so so easy to comprehend and more importantly, understand.
GRAPHIC CREDIT – http://www.webpronews.com/google-maps-traffic-data-added-for-norway-new-zealand-hong-kong-2012-03
OFFICIAL NEWS RELEASE – Google Lat Long Blog
March 20 2012 | General and Nelson and New Zealand and Technology | No Comments »
Feb 28 2012
As I mentioned last week there’s ways, other than just reading here or my twitter feed, that you can keep up to date with happenings in the Nelson bays region of New Zealand.
First up its the paper that heralds itself on “only good news reporting”, perhaps a first in newspaper publishing?
The Nelson Weekly (click link below for latest edition)
The Nelson Weekly is delivered free to householder letterboxes each week.
Not forgetting our southern cousins, next up for free public consumption is the Waimea Weekly,
- The Waimea Weekly – click below for latest edition
actually a paper that was started before the Nelson Weekly….The Waimea Weekly was the original in the region that proudly proclaiming itself to be all about “good news.”
Enjoy your reading.
February 28 2012 | Buyers and General and Nelson and retirement and Sellers and The Market | No Comments »
June 27th, 2011
If you are going to post a comment in the media…….let alone write a syndicated article ……..watch what you say/write.
When I saw this, above “comment”, in the weekend, I got to thinking.
Then……..I just got plain annoyed? Why….well because the brevity that this “flippant” comment seemed to be passed off on….well it wasn’t justified, not in any single way.
Nelsonians, in case you weren’t already aware, well….we absolutely love our rugby.
Don’t forget NELSON was the spot in NEW ZEALAND where the 1st ever game of rugby was played, after CJ himself brought the ball from half a world away [in the days of steamships folks – he was a committed individual] from the mother country.
While I’m at it, can I also remind you readers that the Nelson Rugby Club was the FIRST RUGBY CLUB IN NEW ZEALAND.
Those couple of small incidental facts aside I have a point that I would like to make.
SEATING CAPACITY AT MAJOR STADIUMS AROUND NZ
AUCKLAND – Eden Park seems to be (projected) about 60k
WELLINGTON – Caketin – see chart
CHCH – lets not go there at present (see chart)
DUNEDIN – yes a move is on the cards but recent history shows a crowd of….is possible (but see chart)
So?
Here’s the CHART.
kind of self explanatory actually......
- The blue bars are based on attendances, then considered against the population of each town, something that seems to have alluded Mr Hinton…
Can we definitely not be passed on so mildly …in a way that sounds like “locals” weren’t interested / involved in the events happening.
No dis-respect, but what can I say - to Mr Hinton’s
….a disappointingly small crowd..
statement!
NOTE just in case you’re interested Aucklanders……the chart above does already reflect factor in a “projected” FULL CAPACITY scenario crowd at your new stadium.
June 28 2011 | General and Nelson and New Zealand and rugby and Uncategorized | No Comments »
Feb 11th, 2010
Would you like some Android with that……..
What a difference a year makes in the technology stakes department.
After exploding out of the gate in 2009, Android devices continue their astounding marketshare rampup.
- Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System in 2010
- (Thousands of Units)
Actually, if you check out the above graph, you can see that even application developers have no choice, on a purely business basis, to also join that march.
Gartner (Feb 2011) report;
In the smartphone operating system (OS) market, ”Android grew 888.8 percent in 2010 and moved to the No. 2 position. Android sales in the fourth quarter of 2010 continued to be driven by broad availability of many high-end products from HTC (Desire range, Incredible and EVO), Samsung (Galaxy S) and Motorola (Droid X, Droid 2).
Maybe iPhone 5 will change that, but something tells me, maybe ……
Question – Westpac & realestate.co.nz, ANZ, National Bank, NZPost, Kiwibank, etal plus others like FixmyStreet. ….. isn’t it about time for an Android version of your apps?
DISCLOSURE – I do not own an iPhone, I happen to be in the Samsung Galaxy space.
February 11 2011 | New Zealand and photography and Technology | 2 Comments »
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