On Swine Flu..

Will post an update on life in general soon, but loving this pic..

A giggle for a dreary Sunday

The football team won overnight so that made up for the Blues effort. 3 pts behind the mancs and they have a game in hand, so not ideally placed..

Anyhows, this on Stuff made me laugh so I thought I'd share..

Tough times spell end to baby boom
... 'Professor Tim Hazeldine, the head of economics at Auckland University's School of Business, said that if the country's birth rate did drop, any impact on the economy would not be felt for many years. He said he would be surprised if the birth rate did fall, as experience showed that when times were tough, people opted for low-cost entertainment, and having sex was "fun and cheap"'.

Just goes to show that even economists can be funny!

Piss poor effort that :(

Just got back from the Blues vs Reds debacle. If the Oteha Substation failing just after kick off, causing a 1 hour delay wasn't bad enough, the Blues for the first 60 mins played like a bunch of muppets and well deserved to be 31-5 down. That they managed to pull it back to 31-24 and get 2 bonus points is a testament to how average the Reds have been this season. That said, if some how the Blues had have pulled it back to 31-all or even more amazingly won it would have been worse for the Reds.

With the Hurricanes, Brumbies and Crusaders left to play I don't fancy the Blues chances of making the semis, but funnier things have happened.

Coming soon....

I'm somewhat of a lefty.. vote Labour and have even been on the goggle box (2002) saying why. Just before the election last year I blogged the following;

'New Zealand goes to the polls on Saturday and is likely to elect a centre-right (or very right depending on composition) National-led government in place of the centre-left Labour-led administration of the last 9 years. IMO the middle class are turkeys voting for an early Christmas, but I hope I am wrong... At least it looks as though the US election will go better for those on the progressive side of the divide'

Post election there when this situation eventuated the mood was a litle more 'meh'

'So most of the reaction has made mention of John Key's time as an investment banker and that there was a mood for change, but unlike the USA we were changing from a progressive to a conservative government. This however in the Melbourne Herald Sun is pretty good IMO, highlights include 'New Zealanders have voted for change - a leap from Left to Right - with all the enthusiasm and reasoning power of a doped slug.' and 'Bring Barack Obama to mind -- strip him of charisma and vision, then douse him in White King (a brand of bleach) -- and you've got NZ's new PM.'

Sums up how a lot of us on the centre-left are feeling, change for changes sake is not a good response to current conditions, hoping that the new government will be more centre than right, but not going to be shocked if it is not. I really don't want to have to say I told you so, and given 40% of the 'poor' in NZ Herald analysis of who voted what voted for National, there would be a lot of people to say it to!'

Well 6 months down the track and I'm nearly ready to make that post, so coming soon after the budget next month is my analysis of our new administration...

Running Man #2

Was the second Run Auckland race this morning out at Te Atatu. 10 km around the Harbourview Park. Finished it in 1h 16m which was about what I expected, I've lost 10min of speed since the half marathon in November but that's all good given how little I have run since then. Next one is in 3 weeks time so will keep at it and aim to knock 5 min or so off my time :).

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Now playing: Britney Spears - Circus (Junior Vasquez Club Mix)
via FoxyTunes

Close, but not enough

Football can be a funny game at times.. Normally 4 away goals in Europe sees you through, but as we lost 3-1 to the Chav's at home last week alas Liverpool are out of the Champions League beaten 7-5 on aggregate. Bit of shame as there was no reason why we couldn't will the CL, don't think the Chav's will and with us out the Manc's are looking good to retain that one..

That just leaves the Premier League for this season and though Europe is always good to win, I'd rather they won the league any day. Fingers crossed that a couple of results go our way and come May 24 so has championship #19.

The First Post

I hope to do a better job at this than my old one.. time will tell I guess.

What am I going to post on? Pretty much anything and everything but I imagine there will be a fair few posts on NZ politics, transport in Auckland, English football, rugby, men and my travels around the world.