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Prices, sport and health

There is a school of thought that sports facilities are cheaper to maintain than hospital beds. Olympian John Walker has recently launched a great new initiative in south Auckland based around sport.

“Mr Walker acknowledged high obesity rates among children due to the lack of exercise…”

John Walker, Olympic Gold Medallist.

The current Government are also concerned about the obesity problem. Perhaps even those not on a sports field will cease to be at risk of obesity due to petrol now costing $2 per litre. Shortly everyone will be walking or biking to work.

But beware if you walk to work via alleyway! This might be a common occurrence for the first few weeks:

fans and artists, in business together

Sellaband might just be the new approach to revenue generating needed in the ailing music industry, but for bands and their fans directly. It’s great to see technology shaking the proverbial tree in this industry.

How Sellaband.com works is that you check out a whole bunch of bands and choose that which you like. You then pay $10 to a band via sellaband, they take that $10, and once it’s totalled $50,000 (due to 4,999 other people liking them aswell) they record an album. If they go big, you share in any royalties.

Another cool thing about Sellaband is that they call that particular section of their users that invest in the bands Believers rather than the drab term users. Cool!

Give me a reason

… one reason why Cory Jane should not get an All Black trial this year.

That’s nice

A short while ago I wrote a post called want wins. It was nice to come across bullet point #13 on this list today.

LOTR voice over

This is classic!

Last day

It was our final day on holiday today. It’s been a blast since we started on Anzac Day with Hanan (my brother in law) having his 21st birthday on ‘the farm’ in Ashburton (geeky LOTR theme). It was a great night. Everyone got into the theme. Here’s me as Gandalf the White, the whole LOTR/21st crew, ring wreaths, brother in law with hose and wetsuit, and wainui beach (Gisborne) this morning.

NB: For some reason wordpress won’t allow me to write in between the photos so do your best re: caption issue :)

Hold a meeting?

Continuing on the productivity theme, here’s a good thought regarding meetings.

37Signals are similarly anti-meeting.

What position would he play?

Sonny Bill Williams might be an All Black one day.

Which position should he play?

I’m saying Number 8.