Microsoft has a long history of making up numbers like this.

I give up... it's time for the winter wardrobe.

I'm not surprised that some of the voices saying "We weren't warned" about the awful Wellington storms are the same voices that said officials overreacted to last week's cyclone.

Yes, I deliberately decided not to give too much information on how that might work.

I can think of ways the term "butter chicken tsunami" is not racist.

This is not one of them.

Internet exchange points in New Zealand

Internet exchange points in New Zealand: billbennett.co.nz/internet-exchange-points...

How internet exchange points work in New Zealand, including their role in keeping traffic local, improving performance and how networks interconnect.

Retrofuturism is overlooked and very entertaining.

Chinese trucks could go 100% electric, halving road transport oil use: industry China’s industrial supply chains and engineering expertise provide a distinct competitive advantage, CiDi CEO Albert Hu says.

Good to see someone has a reality-based transport policy.

www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

I clipped it about a 12 years ago and found it when searching archives for a specific news photo.

The RAM shortage could last years Memory makers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027.

That's the next upgrade delayed then....

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

New Zealand's copper networks will be gone by 2028 Chorus moves copper network retirement forward two years. A look at the potential sale of Enable Networks. Amazon acquires Globalstar.

In case you missed Friday's newsletter:

billbennett.co.nz/chorus-accel...

Fair.

Do we have a new prime minister yet?

By 2016, MAN'S INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLECT WILL BE ABLE TO BE INCREASED BY DRUGS AND BY LINKING HUMAN BRAINS DIRECTLY TO COMPUTERS!

I would fly into Heathrow with two bags full of shopping from the open market.

When I was in the UK I had a job that involved going to Den Haag regularly for the day... meetings often wrapped up early and I would shop for cheese and other nice things in the open air markets.

It's a lot like an oyster knife I saw in London, but I don't think that's what it is.

Funnily enough Huawei wasn't selling that.... it did talk about "fibre speeds" but that's not quite the same thing.

Well... you never heard that from me. :) But then, I'm not a pundit, I'm a journalist and (at a pinch) an analyst.

5G mobile is great, but it isn't revolutionary There were many good reasons to upgrade mobile networks to 5G, but the user experience has barely changed.

Someone has to be sceptical about these things. From 2023, but little has changed.

billbennett.co.nz/did-you-noti...

It's hard to imagine using the word in the other context when there is the possibility of custard.

When I was a kid growing up in England seriously rich people had to pay a Super Tax of 95%. The Beatles even wrote a song moaning about it.

The idea seems almost unthinkable today, but that was the "swinging sixties", a time of great optimism.

Those Premier League games are a struggle for me too. Here in New Zealand we’re a day ahead of the UK and it’s never 100% clear if match times are local or not.

Found my Filofax in a drawer while looking for something else. Realised this was probably a more efficient way of staying organised than a digital alternative.

It never spammed me or nagged me to buy overpriced services I'm not remotely interested in.

Am seriously considering reviving it.

It's been loony since the late 1980s. My dad used to get before it went bonkers mainly because it had the best sports coverage of any of the ahem 'serious' newspapers. At the time my (then) girlfriend's dad was one of the sports journalists.

It's not profound, but I realised today that you no longer see plastic sporks or spifes packaged with fruit. this has to be a good thing there must be millions of them in landfills up and down the country ,

I simply cannot be stuffed to watch the PM's press standup.... I'm in no mood to translate his gobbledegook into English. Can wait for the too-long-did-not-listen version.

Christopher Luxon adamant he'll remain National leader amid speculation The Prime Minister says he'll still be in the top job at the election, as ministers dismiss talk of a coup.

I always think these comments have exactly the same vibe as "the chairman and board of this football club have 100 percent confidence in the manager" three days before he is sacked.

"Finance Minister '100 percent' behind Luxon after fresh round of speculation"

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Analysis: Enable Networks ownership review explained Christchurch City Holdings reviewed its ownership of Enable Networks, raising the prospect of a partial or full sale of one of New Zealand's four fibre wholesalers. A report in The Australian says Mac...

This morning I post an analysis alongside the weekly newsletter:

Christchurch City Holdings reviewed its ownership of Enable Networks, raising the prospect of a partial or full sale of one of New Zealand's four fibre wholesalers.

billbennett.co.nz/analysis-pot...

Has anybody else noticed a surge in spam over the last 24 hours?