by JAK | Nov 7, 2008 | culture
The NZ Election is November 8 which is tomorrow. Labour needs the Greens and The Maori Party to make the numbers work and even then it probably won’t be enough. Official results from 7pm NZ time on 8th Nov. Russell Brown has made a partial assessment of Labours...
by JAK | Nov 5, 2008 | culture
Like many I have been keeping an eye on the Google chart below 2008 Election Results scroll down to the live graph/s At the moment – late afternoon its lookimng very good for Obama with 207 247! 324!* out of the 270 EV’s that he needs. *In the space of...
by JAK | Oct 27, 2008 | big ideas, culture
Back in early 2007 a book called 8 Tribes was published. It was described then by the publishers as a “snapshot of contemporary New Zealand (that) explores our unspoken class system and the hidden social boundaries that separate us from each other” In...
by JAK | Oct 21, 2008 | big ideas, culture
Over the weekend there were a growing number of policy debates around the impacts and implications of proposed changes to government investment strategy. At Public Address Russell Brown writes “Labour’s guarantee scheme was excoriated along with...
by JAK | Oct 17, 2008 | culture
Two years and 5 days ago I started this blog to be able to store up a bit of a reference library of ideas and experiences for customers, friends and myself. It has snowballed to be much more than that. Thanks to the readers in the US, Australia, NZ and UK especially...
by JAK | Jul 18, 2008 | culture, music, TED
When I was 11, I had just the most fantastic music teacher. For the next 7 years we worked on all types of music together, one on one, in group classes, in a wind symphonia and also in the school orchestra. Later on we did music tours with a 70 piece orchestra made...
