My Grocer is Getting Social With Me
Back in the day, when I was a toddler, the grocer was like a family friend. When we went into the supermarket, the butcher would see us coming and set his slicer to thinnest mode and get ready to cut...
View ArticleLandline Caller ID With Names
Isn’t it funny how things that you take for granted services that you use on a regular basis. Remember when your land-line phone used to tell you the number that was calling you, unless they blocked...
View ArticleNZ6 Goes Pop Pop Pop
I was just sitting down to dinner this evening and I heard this loud noise, POP, POP, POP, POP. It reminded me of back when I was a young fella riding a Triumph Saint which used to backfire when the...
View ArticleProduction of New Zealand Bank Notes Continues Decline
Cash {EAV:790574c026a0b8cd} Remember cash? Do you still carry any? In the last few years with eMoney it has almost become non existent. New Zealand was one of the first countries to adopt EFTPOS as a...
View ArticleLoving the Auckland Ferry Commute
I once said that I would never commute across the bridge any more for any job. Spending an hour each way from home to work just didn’t make sense, what a total waste of time. Well almost, because I...
View ArticleVodafone Phases Out Telephone Numbers
Vodafone has announced that phone numbers will no longer be necessary for mobile subscribers in New Zealand. New and existing subscribers who do not run POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) landlines will...
View ArticleHealth Problems Caused by Augmented Reality Glasses Over Usage
ARGOS (Augmented Reality Glasses Overuse Syndrome) has recently been identified by the Mental health Research Centre in the USA. People are being bombarded with constant data being displayed on their...
View ArticleAsteroid Risk in USA Explodes Real Estate Prices in New Zealand
Real Estate prices in parts of New Zealand are reaching atmospheric highs after authorities announced that the risk of Asteroid 1997 XF11 hitting Earth close to New York State on 28 October 2028 has...
View ArticleLong Bay Finally Gets Ferry Wharf Approval
Transport Auckland finally bowed to pressure and has approved a Ferry Terminal installation to cope with the gridlock after heated protests from residents of the new Long Bay development. Long Bay was...
View ArticleFacebook Goggle Phone Is Better Than I Thought
Facebook has joined the fray with not just AR Goggles, but the Goggles are the phone and its quite cool. When Vodafone gave me the glasses to review, my first reaction was, to be honest, pretty much,...
View ArticleI Found the Real Auckland Transport Plan
Everyone thought the new Auckland transport plan was going to be about a second harbour crossing, a tunnel, more busways an extra lanes. The new Labour Government together with Auckland Transport came...
View ArticlePoor GPS Map Data on Aftermarket HUD Car Nav Devices Turns Heads
New aftermarket GPS car nav units have been blamed for a spate of car accidents due to inaccurate map data. The wave of new aftermarket HUD (Heads Up Display) aftermarket car navigation devices over...
View ArticleUS Motorists Road User Charge Taxes Create Windfall for Kiwi GPS Developers
The solution to a massive nose dive in US domestic tourism has come from an unlikely source, specialists in GPS vehicle tracking, Road User Charge rebate and electronic in-vehicle tax payments by Fleet...
View ArticleMy Auckland Commute to Work
Do you ever think back to how things used to be? Auckland motorways used to be known as the car park. My commute on the North Shore is so easy these days, thanks to the awesome travel information we...
View ArticleWonder Why My Garage is Humming
So I finally did it and decided to go for an electric car and to make the Corvette my summer weekend car. So what am I getting that changed me from being a bit of a petrolhead to electric besides the...
View ArticleAlexa Changed my Life AND Has Almost Stopped TXTing and Driving
I first installed Alexa on my iPhone back in ’18 after reading the @garyvee book Crushing It: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence and How You Can Too. I knew about Voice First...
View ArticleI Love my Driverless Hotel Showroom
Back in the day I when I first used to sell scanning systems to supermarkets. I’d hop on a plane and fly somewhere like Napier, get into a rental car and then drive to visit all the large owner...
View ArticleSnuber Ski Drones Replace Chair Lifts Opening New Slopes
Image by composita from Pixabay Global Alpine Sport, the recent startup has opened up its first ski field near Cardrona in New Zealand’s South Island, with a couple of major differences. There are no...
View ArticleI Had a Dream About COVID19
Is fact stranger than fiction or the other way around? For the last few years I have felt like an extra in a science fiction movie. One of the bit actors that don’t appear on the credits, isn’t really...
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