Stephen retweeted
you'd see this defended by eight guys in an episode of sharpe followed by that episodes spy for wellington describing it as a the french garrison for half of spain
We should really get around to managing our exposure by at least extending Eftpos to (a) have contactless, (b) work online properly, (c) interoperate in Aus and (d) mandate everyone who takes Visa and MC in NZ also accepts it, including overseas tech firms over a threshold
As it stands at the moment Donny T could personally ban you from, for one thing, parking in pretty much any metered parking space in New Zealand since most now are credit card only
Stephen retweeted
For years I assumed changing the clocks twice a year was something basically everyone did.
Turns out it isn’t.
Europe, much of North America, and a handful of other countries are the exception.
Most of the world just leaves the clock alone.
Slightly sad that the Kerrin Leoni thing means Labour will lose their track record that they've run a candidate in every electorate in every general election since 1943, and they're the only party with anything remotely close to that record.
Stephen retweeted
I don’t like wedding vows where they talk about the improbability of all this and the number of random things that had to happen for them to meet each other. The probability was 1. They met each other
Stephen retweeted
If franz ferdinand didn’t want to be assassinated he shouldn’t have made a song called “take me out”
