Is it any wonder Vox’s resources are taxed? Here’s a chap that does 3,265 posts in a month—all off-site spam. (I won’t give them the privilege of a link—no point raising their search engine rankings.) I vote that Vox has some form of alarm at HQ for people who blog too often. Twitter and […]
The 2010 mayoral election is about job creation and transparency
The Fairfax Press has been talking about how Wellingtonians are expected to bail out some loss-makers, such as the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. And that the decision to do this has been made behind closed doors. The city’s debt is over $200 million—we were looking at very similar numbers at the time of the 2007 local […]
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A new book on nation branding
I still need to get a few book reviews up, and here’s a good one to begin 2010 on. Nation Branding: Concepts and Country Perspectives, edited by Nishit Kumar and Anil Varma and published by ICFAI Press, is a very complete book giving a snapshot of the discipline’s practice in the late 2000s. There are […]
Some more rare cars hit Autocade
Tim Cottingham of the Aston Martin Heritage Trust kindly gave me permission to use one of his photographs on Autocade, for a very rare Aston. The 1972 Vantage was a six-cylinder model, of which only 70 were made. The Autocade entry gives a credit to Tim, and we can begin tracing the lineage of some […]
Now on Wordpress
Spot the difference The Blogger blog (top) and this Wordpress one (above). It took quite a bit of time redoing the template for Wordpress, but I think we are there. There are some differences between this and the Blogger blog, but if there are any issues, please let me know in the comments. […]