On Google News yesterday (during the Vox blackout): Nigeria: the Country might have slipped, but I wonder where Nigeria: the Movie is, and Nigeria: the Flame Thrower (the kids love that one). Apparently, we topped this index, which is nice to know. I wonder if Bill English’s housing allowances...

Here’s today’s bad parking job. Unless this Toyota’s driver wants to tell me that originally, there was a bike in front and a Smart ForTwo behind. Otherwise, being in the middle of a two-car space and not allowing something as small as my Renault to get in behind is not cool. Technically, this...

Ever wandered into a music or video store here and there are sections marked ‘A–Z’, ‘New Zealand’ and ‘Foreign’? The biggest section is the first one, and often we have the smallest section. Think about it though: shouldn’t everything not in ‘New Zealand’ be under ‘Foreign’?...