Misc Items of Interest

Kieren McCarthy writes in The Times about the titantic battle for control of the sex.com domain. He’s just written a book about the battle.

Damian Christie is not a fan of the NZ Herald’s new “Blonde at the Bar” feature. For some reason he thinks a newspaper should have more actual news in it. Outraegous.

The Fiji Times reports on the new chief prosecutor for their Independent Commission against Corruption. Some of us online will recall Grant from his blogging days! Well done.

Whale Oil casts a tiny bit of doubt over Whoar’s claims of three million page views a month.

Bruce at Aardvark is not a fan of Xero and advises against.

Mr Tips at NZ Conservative has an amusing recollection of Clayton Cosgrove:

In Form 2 (year 8 to Generation Y), a planned outing for 30 rowdy boys was in jeopardy because the teacher got the bus time wrong. We were highly annoyed, but Clayton slipped out, got on the phone in the school office and managed to get the bus to come earlier. The teacher naturally took umbrage at this and Clayton simply replied:

“Who the hell is running this class, me or you?” The class descended into chaotic laughter.

The NZ Herald asks people for advice on what Labour can do now.