Just went for a wander around the harbour after Nikau. Everybody was outside at the first site of sun that has some warmth in it, although not enough warmth for what some people were wearing – way too early for shorts and jandals.

It’s Father’s Day today as well and we saw a bunch of fathers and their kids, out in their urban backyard riding bikes and scooters though for the most part the kids were trailing along whining and the fathers were carrying anything up to 3 bikes/scooters/roller-blades and one was managing to juggle a flat white in there as well. Hope they were having a nice day with their kids!

I love sitting on the balls dotted around the waterfront and watching everyone go about their business.

And I thought this picture the Mister took of Mt Vic was very like that iconic Wellington photo/watercolour/oil on canvas that’s on many postcards, gift cards and in art shops around town. Perhaps we can make our own now we’ve got this great photo.

Watched a video on the web yesterday of a panel of US companies in the accounting/personal finance space (god, that could almost be considered work, yikes it’s creeping into our Saturday lives) to see how closely competitive they are to Xero. The panel was discussing all sorts – their main points of difference, what they’re doing to earn their customers’ trust (it’s financial information they’re storing after all), where they see themselves going, what they think will happen in the world of business online vs business hand-to-hand in a more traditional sense. Interesting stuff. Aaaaanyway. In the mix, a couple of real knob words – as usual I suspected they were made up but turns out they’re not although these guys were not really using them in the dictionary-defined sense, so they did sound kind of wanky.

Prosumer

A device or appliance that is between the consumer and professional models.

Disintermediation

The act of removing funds from savings banks and placing them into
short-term investments on which the interest-rate yields are higher.