Stephen Fry’s NZ Broadband Tweets And The Entrepreneurs Organization Conference

There’s been a Mega embarrassment for New Zealand this week as Stephen Fry criticised the lack of a decent broadband service at the same time that the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) were having their international ‘university’ conference in Queenstown. Stephen Fry made the comments in his Twitter blogs. It’s shocking that the country that brought you Avatar in glorious…

Herewini, Any Relation?

It has been confirmed that four males have been charged with the stabbing murder of 64 year old Polish man  Roman Skorek in a Rotorua’s Kuirau Park last month. Two are un-named youths aged 14 and 15, the others are Simon Meka Herewini, 20, and Rawiri James Samuel, 21. Co-incidentally, Simon Meka Herewini bears the same family name as someone who was caught up in…

New Zealand A Great Place To Raise Kids?

This cartoon in today’s NZ Herald says it all The Herald has run a series of articles about the effects of poverty. If you’re thinking about emigrating from a first world country please try to read a few. Here’s the links to some of them. Dr says he sees effects of poverty on kids every…