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WARNING: The following contains quite a lot of fairly arcane discussion about economic data. Proceed at your own risk. The Australian Financial Review isn’t a paper I normally read online, and I can’t remember now what inspired me to go … Continue reading →

The NZ Herald reports today that the trade deficit for the year to January is 23% of export receipts compared with an average for January of 7.8%. Imports increased by 3 Billion to 37.9 Billion. This implies that exports were … Continue reading →

Just so these can easily be got at from one place, here are the links to the photos I took in NZ – Christmas Day Cornwall Park Devonport Michelle and Jeremy’s Pakiri Beach Tawharanui Whangateau Boatyard Birds

Saw this in the NZ Herald yesterday… Maybe I’m just easily amused.

Interesting article on Yahoo News says most U.S. workers say they are getting less accomplished than a decade ago.

Ok, these are the last of the photos from my trip. I spotted this young bird that was evidently injured outside the downstairs ranchslider at Mum and Dad’s. Apparently both its parents were taking turns to feed it –

This is almost the end of my vacation photos. These ones were taken on a day that Mum and Dad and I drove up to Pakiri. On the way we stopped at Whangateau, a small settlement just south of Leigh … Continue reading →

More photos, this time from & of the Tawharanui Peninsula, another one of my favorite places.

Just minor housekeeping, but I have fixed the problem with the email subscription form not showing up on the left hand side of my home page. R|mail had changed something on their side that required me to make a change … Continue reading →

I really should be sleeping or even working, but there is such a lot going on in the world that begs to be talked about. Tonight I heard Helen Clark talking to Larry Williams on NewstalkZB about her State of … Continue reading →