Former cyclone Lusi wasn't the only wild, hot air over the weekend. That deafening sucking sound you heard was elements of the political right having a massive tantrum because the Judith Collins story ...

It's hardly new that for science to play its part in public life, complex and difficult ideas must be communicated to the public. The works of Einstein and Bohr, for example, embodied the strangest ...

The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act is an inadequate piece of law -- albeit one markedly better than what it was designed to replace -- passed ...

"Go the All Blacks!" said the young woman. I smiled and gave her the thumbs up. It was a scene so ubiquitous on Cup Final Day as to barely be worth remarking on -- were it not for the fact that I was ...

Firstly: Kim Dotcom did not "admit to hacking" at the Internet-Mana campaign launch today, as both network news shows claimed this evening. His "teenage hacker made good" story is Dotcom Bio 101. It's ...

In 2006, I was lucky enough to get in on an analyst briefing at IBM's Alamaden Research Centre, near San Jose.It was a memorable day. The place itself -- a monumental California modernist building on ...

There were warnings last year, including here in this blog, that a nasty surprise was developing in the process of merging council IT systems for the new Auckland super city; that long-term costs were ...

Earlier this week, Act Party leader Jamie Whyte notified the world that he had delivered a speech entitled Race has no place in the law and, it seemed, sat back in anticipation of plaudits for his ...

It is inevitable and fitting that this Anzac Day, marking a hundred years since the disastrous invasion of Gallipoli, should be a particularly significant one. I think it's also true that the official ...

It's almost exactly three months since the New Zealand Herald's 'Diary' columnist Rachel Glucina announced in a tweet that she had been "headhunted" by Mediaworks "for a joint venture partnership to ...

My taxi driver had a theory, as taxi drivers often do -- especially when they've had a lot of time to sit in their cars and ruminate. At about 12.30am on Friday morning, on Queen Street, I was only ...

How would you feel as a consumer if you were made to pay the decreed price of a commercial monopoly supplier and were deprived by the same government of any conventional means of challenging that ...