A custodial investor: Rod and me
Rod Drury is an entrepreneur. Entrepreneur is a funny old word. It gets bandied around a lot. “Oh if only New Zealand had more…entrepreneurs”. I’m not even sure what it really means. Rod is though. I...
View ArticleThink Before You Click or: Why I Haven’t Seen JLaw’s Boobs
These are not the nudes you were looking for The internet has exploded in the last 72 hours because naked photos and videos of over 100 people, several of them high profile Hollywood actresses and...
View ArticleUber the review
By Steve W August 28th was the official launch day for Uber in Wellington. For those who aren’t aware of what Uber is, it’s billed as “Everone’s Private Driver”. It’s a taxi service of sorts, but as...
View ArticleCyberbullying: by Loren Heaphy
The Ruminator’s Loren Heaphy (LOZ!) is a finalist in the Westpac Millennial Women of Influence competition. And we think she deserves it. Because she’s both a millennial AND influential (and secretly...
View ArticleRumiplaylist: the awfulness
So in a fit of collaboration, I thought I’d ask my friends, family, Twitter followers and Facebook pals to name me one song that I would add to a Spotify playlist. It would be an experiment in musical...
View ArticleExcellent customer service from Spark
We’re always very quick to complain when customer service is shit (see Fone,Voda).But today I had excellent customer service, so I thought I’d share it, because not enough people praise companies when...
View Article#RumiPlaylist
Recently I got a playlist thing happening on Spotify. And it was a fun time. Now I’m running a regular update. Each time it’ll be a new theme and I want as many suggestions for songs as you can throw...
View ArticleReddit – Something IS going on here
Something rather big happened to the internet the other day. Reddit, longheld as a bastion of online discussion (and despite what you may have heard, formerly also a bastion of open slather free...
View ArticleIn Mod we trust
Yesterday, Reddit continued it’s dramatic month of what can only be described in a public relations context, as a cluster fuck. After the sudden and mysterious firing of Reddit Inc. emploee Victoria...
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