Cynicalisation

Me and SWMBO managed to figure that today was not the day to go cycling. It was p*****g down and sounded pretty dangerous out there for a ...

It seems more people than ever want to leave the UK ; no surprises there then. What grabbed my interest was somebody prepared to take an i...

I can’t really write about this without having a quick bit of bio. I describe my father as a lapsed Jew, I should perhaps point out that h...

Sorry if by chance you have missed me. The truth is that she who must be obeyed and a number of valued friends managed to talk me into get...

Whilst I have ranted and railed against cars, I have to date avoided ranting at drivers themselves. However this exchange which Graham Reid...

As my life draws ever closer to middle age there are a relatively modest number of things that make me act with childish glee. Buying new C...

I was quite sad to hear about the bomb in Tel Aviv; Because i) more people got killed. ii) even Hamas must be sucking their teeth over the P...

Thank you to all of those who have given up so much to represent New Zealand at the commonwealth games. However because you haven’t met our...

Okay lets make something clear..... I love cars, I was brought up in a car town. The kids I grew up with worked in the factory until they...

The question needs to be asked; has Apple fallen out with someone big in the music industry ? Has Jobs had a standoff over the cost of ITun...

This is a blog best known for misplaced and mis-timed irrational outbursts. Watch this though. The images really do speak for themselves. ...

I’m sure this must seem both evangelical and absurd but in many respects drivers are the smokers of the 21st century. They occupy an extrao...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10370426 ARC announces a funding gap of $700m and declares that the public t...

Well I’ve been away and now I’m back. There are bits of the far South where I can testify that the sun will burn you (and make you sad, so...

It seems that the bile is poring out of me at the moment, I’m not bitter……..honest (yeah right!). This issue to do with Te Wananga o Aot...

Sooner or later I’m going to have something nice to say….but at the moment I will reserve all the niceness I can muster for those I love. ...

Today was one of those days that sucks the very soul right out of you. I spent my time dealing with the consequences of failing students i...

I read with interest today that New Zealand has opted not to go with Country of Origin labelling (cool) of food. This I find disappointing...