2% are faceblind

02 Jul 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in administration, economics, health economics

2% of people suffer from this inability to recognise faces including Stephen Fry! I thought in his business you have to be able to spot faces.

I have the opposite syndrome of name deafness. Great at remembering faces but terrible at remembering names especially when put under pressure to remember them face-to-face.

The reason why I do not read novels is I cannot remember the names of the characters. But if I read a technical article I remember the names of the authors and people discussed in it.

50,000 tweets

21 Jun 2016 Leave a comment

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I am officially old

17 Jun 2016 Leave a comment

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Firing @SparkNZ prepay 1st thing Monday morning for poor reliability

17 Jun 2016 1 Comment

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Days per year with wind gusts greater than gale force in Kelburn since 1967

09 Jun 2016 Leave a comment

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Switched successfully to blogging with @OpenLiveWriter

22 May 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in administration

I have downloaded Open Live Writer as a replacement to Live Writer as my blog writing tool. This open source software has none of the bugs of the program it was based on.

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In an oddity, an entrepreneurial gap in the market, until now I have been unable to find a decent blog writing tool. Microsoft Office has a blog template but is wholly inadequate because it cannot program blogs into the future nor tag them. Currently does not work at all as a blogging tool because of some memory space problem.

Live Writer was slow to open, freezers for a minute or two when I post a blog and is slow to close. It frequently freezes for no particular reason at all and interacts poorly with my voice dictation software. I cannot use my voice dictation software when Live Writer is loading of post up to my blog, which often takes more time than it needs because it freezes when it does that.

Open Live Writer has none of these problems and works quite smoothly. I recommend it.

Thanks for the 1 million views!

09 May 2016 Leave a comment

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The cycling community is rather intolerant of criticism @JKruppster

01 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in administration, transport economics

My blog post on bicycles must go at night attracted a fair degree of personal abuse from the cycling sub-reddit. Another local economist is going where angels fear to tread.

https://twitter.com/JKruppster/status/704396974150160386

Only VFL grand final I ever attended

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Thanks for the 900,000 views

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Bicyclists do not like evidence-based road safety policy

15 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in administration, economics of regulation, transport economics

Bicyclists get very upset when they are told about the dangers. They immediately resort to personal abuse about my post arguing that bicycles at night should be banned.

This anger is another reason why bikes must go. Bicyclists are surly people who respond aggressively when they should do more reserved and careful.

@GreenCatherine I’ve been banned from the Conservative sub-Reddit

07 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in administration, economics of media and culture

In a perfectly balanced sample, I have been banned from the Conservatives sub-Reddit for being a left-wing troll and from the New Zealand and Australian sub-Reddits for being a right-wing troll.

Add to that, I am blocked on Twitter by both the Minister of Health and the Green party spokesman on health. Must be doing something right.

Thanks for the 800,000 views

14 Dec 2015 Leave a comment

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November ’15 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking

01 Dec 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in administration

With 68,618 page views in November 2015, my blog is the sixth most viewed New Zealand blog.

I am having technical difficulties getting added to this list despite considerable assistance by open parachute blog.

http://statcounter.com/p10640107/summary/daily-rpu-labels-bar-last30days/

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There are about 300 blogs on the list, although I am weeding out those which are no longer active or have removed public access to sitemeters. (Let me know if I weed out yours by mistake or get your stats wrong).

Every month I get queries from people wanting their own blog included. I encourage and am happy to respond to queries but have prepared a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) people can check out. Have a look at NZ Blog Rankings FAQ. This is particularly helpful to those wondering how to set up sitemeters. Please note, the system is automatic and relies on blogs having sitemeters which allow public access to the stats.

Here are the rankings of New Zealand blogs with publicly available statistics for November 2015. Ranking is by visit numbers. I have listed the blogs in the table below, together with monthly visits and page view numbers…

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