Yeah, it is!

Originally they had a wee shop where Victoria and manners street meet, but went mobile at some point

I had a random thought today - Any (ex?)Wellingtonians remember Ed’s Juice Bar?

I miss that place…

Well put!

I wonder how much it actually cost though…

Yes, unfortunately, it still feels like there’s really only two telcos in the country - with various rebadged products (skinny, et al - I’ve list track of who’s actually who).

Then again, our population density is probably off putting for any prospective telcos eyeing up the market!

That certainly sounds like the work they’ve got me involved in (migrating staff onto a common computer platform)

there’s just no way moving the users and computers away from the hospital where all their data and systems reside is going to be an improvement for anyone…

Honestly, I’m thinking of getting my whole team to apply. Fuck these assholes

We should get comcom to look into it so they can do absolutely fucking nothing, like the last few scams they’ve rubber-stamped

Yes! Beach waves and bird noises or something? Sounds great!

I hate how the music gets stuck in my head or has associations I’d rather not mix with my displeasure when dealing with.

That and my cynical view of aussie companies trying to look local using kiwi music (while the call taker is wherever is cheapest)

What would your ideal hold ‘music’ be?

I’ve always hated these things and think music is a terrible choice as it can only ever reinforce the ‘middle of the road’ tastes (something I have big problems with in NZ).

But the ringer sound just reduces your brain to mush after a few minutes as well…

Would silence work, with the occasional ‘you’re _n_th in the queue’ update? I think that’s my best choice

Oh wow, I forgot about APOD!

I loved some of their colourised nebula images

I’ve been looking at our electricity usage and discovered our meter stopped reporting it’s usage a few months ago - that really skews things!

I chucked in a manual reading which wasn’t too far off their estimate, but I’m irked that ‘something’ has stopped talking. Gave it a few pokes to see but no new data. On the ph to provider now, jooyyyeeee. Powershop really do have some strangely funky hold music, it’s quite enjoyable - pity it’s mono and basically 8kHz or whatever the phone lines do to muddy everything!

Also, is it just me or have many of the gentailers stopped publishing their actual rates / seeking new customers?

My son bought a cold home last week which is working it’s way through the house. Sucks…

Thanks this is awesome! I won’t share it with my wife, however

How come no one paired bubbly with ice cream for adult-spiders?

Sooo… Does that indicate it’s not a steering issue?

I’m wondering about drunk captains, but really that’d be more of a cruise ship thing, in all fairness

Shiiit, I’d pay to see that

I’m going to put my tin foil hat on here, stand back and all that…

…maybe that was the result of some ‘influence’ someone applied?

These are the same muppets that have the great kiwi duopoly a free pass

I thought this was a sad closing paragraph:

“But if we keep asking the questions, and we keep agitating and we keep presenting the evidence, then hopefully we will get some traction sometime.”

Oh sure, that’s what the 3 horsemen are doing, but the schools could play this too… It’s risky, but every teacher I’ve met had indicated things have been bad for decades